Talk:List of Serbs/Archive 1

Not one bit of logic
It could be just me but I think that this list should be renamed to "List of Serbs". Serbians (Srbijanci?) simply means a Serb from Serbia. Plus, many people do not like the term for a number of reasons. This should be taken into consideration. The idea of having a list for Serbs from Serbia, people from Serbia as well as list with Serbs from BiH, Serbs from Croatia and so on (I am not including anything outside Europe for this one) does not seem reasonable. We already have a list made of people from Serbia, which is supposedly not a List of Serbs.

Mm.srb (talk) 23:42, 22 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Merge this into the List of people from Serbia. "Serbian" and "from Serbia" are synonims.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  17:45, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Oppose merging, support renaming (or splitting if more appropriate) one of two articles to "list of Serbs" - There are two main categories Category:Lists of people by nationality and Category:Lists of people by ethnicity. Hence there should be two separate articles that belong to this two categories, one for people from Serbia (state not toponym) and one for people of Serb ethnicity. Serbians≠People of Serbian nationality because it most often refers only to Serbs from Serbia.--Antidiskriminator (talk) 21:32, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Can you give some example where we have separate lists for ethnicity and country? I checked for Greeks/Greece, Germans/Germany, Russians/Russia, Poles/Poland, Croats/Croatia. I didn't find any such example.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  23:58, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
 * I easily found one in second attempt. List of Bosnia and Herzegovina people and List of Bosniaks. The second example is from fifth attempt List of Belarusians (ethnic group) and List of people from Belarus. I am not fan of this kind of lists, but in this case the topics are quite distinguished. After three more attempt: List of Israelis and Lists of Jews--Antidiskriminator (talk) 01:04, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

List of Serbs would work, in.my opinion.Jeanne Boleyn (talk) 15:40, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment – Having in mind examples mentioned above, I think it might be feasible to rename this article "List of Serbs", and keep it separate from List of people from Serbia. --Sundostund (talk) 04:41, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Support renaming to "List of Serbs", because this article contains list of prominent Serbs, by ethnicity. It should not be merged into List of people from Serbia, since that article contains list of prominent people from Serbia, by territory. Those are two very different subjects, and it is proper and useful to have two separate lists. Of course, all Serbs from Serbia will be listed in both articles: in first list by their ethnicity together with other ethnic Serbs, and in second list by their country together with other people from Serbia. Sorabino (talk) 05:23, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Support renaming per previous arguments by Sorabino and others. Once article is renamed additional clarification/sources may be needed for personal self-determination of certain individuals.--MirkoS18 (talk) 10:46, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Support renaming
 * Support renaming I have not read previous opinions in depth. I have checked this article and List of people from Serbia. This article should list Serbs in general (and thus be renamed to List of Serbs), regardless of their citizenship (e.g. Serbs, Bosnian Serbs, Croatian Serbs, Kosovo Serbs etc.). The latter one is about people of all nations who were either born in Serbia or have citizenship. Term used when describing people as "Serbs" is for the people having Serbian ethnicity. Term used when describing people as "Serbians" is usually only for those living in Central Serbia or have Serbian citizenship.-- AirWolf  talk  19:46, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment – Regrettably, this turns out to be a more complicated issue. "List of Serbians" was originally created as a redirect to "Lists of Serbs", and later it was made as a stubby list containing people connected in some way with Serbia regardless of their ethnicity. "Lists of Serbs" contained most ethnic Serbs, but also persons who were not ethnic Serbs but were associated with Serbia (e.g., Rudolph Reti, Adolf Hempt, Petar Gburčik, Vasko Popa). There was a RM to move "List of Serbs" to "List of people from Serbia". Regarding the contents of this list, it was a nonsensical move, as the list contained Đorđe Branković (count) (a Serb from present-day Romania, a major precursor of early-modern Serbian historiography, who never stepped in Serbia), Valtazar Bogišić (a Catholic self-declared Serb from Dubrovnik), ethnic Serbs from Montenegro, Herzegovina, Bosnia, Croatia, etc. However, the requested move was made, so we have a funny situation of the current "List of people from Serbia" containing ethnic Serbs from all over the Balkans and the world (while by its name it should contain people only from Serbia regardless of their ethnicity), and a stubby "List of Serbians", containing some Serbs and non-Serbs from Serbia.


 * First, that move should be reverted, and the "List of Serbs" (after the revert) should be cleared of persons who were not ethnic Serbs (some examples are given above, and also Canadians, Australians, etc., with a partial and remote Serb ancestry, etc). Second, "List of Serbians" should be renamed as "List of people from Serbia" and expanded with more people of any ethnicity who lived in or hailed from the Republic of Serbia, but also cleared of people not so closely associated with Serbia (e.g., who could say that Zdravko Čolić is a Srbijanac?). Third, while we assume that the name "Serbians" corresponds with the Serbian word Srbianci, I have often seen that it is used synonymously with "Serbs". So I propose that "List of Serbians", instead of being a redirect to "List of people from Serbia" after the renaming, should be a disambiguation page, explaining the usage of the term "Serbians" as a synonym for ethnic Serbs, and the name for the inhabitants of Serbia regardless of their ethnicity, and thus pointing to the pages "List of Serbs" and "List of people from Serbia". I'm sorry not to offer a simple response, but this is how I see it. Vladimir (talk) 21:56, 24 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Support renaming to "List of Serbs", because this article contains list of prominent Serbs. We still have List of people from Serbia, which include
 * Oppose merging, support renaming and change the content. There is already an article List of people from Serbia (Category:Lists of people by nationality). This article should be renamed as "List of Serbs" and it should include declared Serbs, regardless of citizenship, birthplace etc. (Category:Lists of people by ethnicity). -Aca (talk) 00:37, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
 * That's another posibility for what I proposed above: Rename this to "List of Serbs" and then transfer here all relevant persons from the original "List of Serbs", which is now erroniously titled "List of people from Serbia" after the inappropriate move. And then edit that "List of people from Serbia" in accordance with that title. Then still remains "List of Serbians" to be turned into a disambiguation page, as I explained above. Vladimir (talk) 00:22, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
 * You are right, after all those corrections, page "List of Serbians" should be turned into a DP since English term "Serbians" is used not only for designating people from Serbia, but also for designating ethnic Serbs. Sorabino (talk) 02:13, 25 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Comment. Regarding some questions that were raised here so far, it might be useful to reflect on the general use of adjective Serbian, since there is a tendency among some users who claim that it should be used only in relation to Serbia, but not in relation to Serbs. They also claim that in relation to Serbs proper adjective should be "Serb". All those claims are quite misleading, since adjective Serbian has both meanings; it can be legitimately used in relation to Serbia, and also in relation to Serbs, depending on the context. Prime example: Serbian language is language of Serbs. Common meaning of that term is never reduced to Serbia only. Similarly to that, Serbian Orthodox Church is Church of all Orthodox Serbs, not only a "Church of Serbia". In spite of such clear confirmations of legitimate use of adjective Serbian in relation to Serbs, titles of several articles relating to various subjects on Serbs were changed by replacing "Serbian" with "Serb" as adjective, and thus a misleading terminological inconsistency was created. Since adjective Serbian is properly used for designating Serbian language as language of Serbs, that standard should be generally applied, and the same adjective should be used for all subjects related to Serbs. Sorabino (talk) 03:03, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
 * @Vanjagenije could we please make a decision? Mm.srb (talk) 22:35, 30 January 2019 (UTC)
 * What do you mean by make a decision? I made my decision above.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  18:58, 1 February 2019 (UTC)
 * My bad; I had in mind that admins could make moves like quickly renaming the article. Mm.srb (talk) 17:18, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Any user can make moves.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  20:20, 6 February 2019 (UTC)

Where is Nikola Tesla?
I think he was one of the most important Serbs in history, it would be nice that he is added to the list — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.209.196.189 (talk) 22:24, 29 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Done, thank you for the observation. Sadko (talk) 00:43, 16 September 2019 (UTC)

Galleries
I plan to create galleries consisting of 6 selected notable persons from the list which would serve as "summaries" of notable people which have been included to a single paragraph. Those galleries would also serve as illustrations in this otherwise monotonous article. Something similar is used on several lists, with the difference being that on other related lists images have been simply added to the right side, which often looks nasty.  Sadkσ  (talk is cheap)  20:55, 17 June 2020 (UTC)