Talk:Sea Gypsies (people groups)

Contested deletion
This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because this a dab page between several ethnic groups known as "Sea Gypsies". A7 speedying is inappropriate - if you want to delete it, then go to AfD.Nigel Ish (talk) 17:42, 21 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Agreed, of course, as the creator of the disambig page. See below for rationale.  N2e (talk) 18:34, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

Rationale for disambig creation
There seems to be significant reference to these two people groups (and, perhaps others?) from south asian and pacific people groups as Sea Gypsies. I had not heard of them before yesterday, when I encountered serious description in a book on neurological development of the brain, and particular brain remapping that has occurred in these groups relative to seeing MUCH more clearly when underwater. (book was "The Brain the Changes Itself", Norman Doidge, 2007.)

I was quite surprised to find that Wikipedia—the encyclopedia of human knowledge—had no (zip, zero, nada) reference to any kind of "Sea Gypsies" that referred to either of these (or any) people groups that are (apparently, widely) known as Sea Gypsies. This two-element disambig page was my attempt to get that situation remedied.

Two of the other sources I found in under five minutes included: ... but it was also the case that both of the extant WP articles on these two people groups had sourced/cited mentions of the term Sea Gypsies with respect to these people groups.
 * Moken: Sea Gypsies of Myanmar, 2005, National Geographic article.
 * Burma "Sea Gypsies" Compendium

This, in my view, WP should definitely have a disambig page to get our readers to the other material WP has, which could, of course, be improved. (as with all articles...)

A standalone article might very well be warranted, and would, I think, meet WP:GNG.

But I really think that the wide use of the term to describe these groups is probably best handled—for now at leastt—via a redirect/disambig.

Prior to yesterday, there was no Wikipedia disambig for this particular use of the term "Sea Gypsies". There is now, and I think that is a very good thing. N2e (talk) 18:33, 21 November 2015 (UTC)