Category talk:People from the Russian Empire

Scope
My understanding is this category was created so that we could group all articles on people who were subjects of the Russian Empire and avoid unending debates on what actual nationality certain people belonged to.John Pack Lambert (talk) 05:17, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

Jānis Ilsters
Jānis Ilsters was a resident of the Russian Empire all his life. This is clearly shown in the article. I thus added him to categories related to his being a national of the Russian Empire. This was reverted on the grounds we should not connect a person with the Russian Empire just because he lived there. This makes no sense to me. We intentionally have described these categories as containing subjects amount other things, and have chose the from formation in the category name to show this connection. The while point of the category name was to end the debates where people fight over the best ethnicity to call people, or people insist that a person was really x nationality living in y country, and not y nationality connected with y country. We created a category that only states the person was a subject or national of y country, and we group everyone who in a defining way was such. Basically we are saying person the person was a subject or national of country y. Unless we have compelling evidence that a person was not a subject or national of the country thry lived in we place them in the category that links them to that country.John Pack Lambert (talk) 05:24, 6 November 2023 (UTC)