Wikipedia:Stub types for deletion/Log/2009/June/14

Category:Soviet Union canoeist stubs -> Category:Soviet canoeist stubs

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I would like have approval for category change after originally placing this was placed originally in the WP:CFD. This is done in maintaining consistency with other professions from people who lived in the former Soviet Union. Chris (talk) 23:39, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
 * support. Sounds reasonable -all the others are at "Adjective canoeist stubs": (except the Czech one, which possibly should also be but which might cause problems with "Czech" also sometimes referring to the old Czechoslovakia). Grutness...wha?  00:01, 15 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Support. "Soviet" is the standard adjective in other (non-stub) categories. Good Ol’factory (talk) 01:48, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Which causes sometimes funny, sometimes bitter, collisions when people notable for anti-soviet activities (or simply treated as such by the govt) fall under the "Soviet" blanket (Ludmila Belousova etc.). Alternative? replacing historical citizenship with some invented bogus (Mikhail Baryshnikov). "Adjective" convention saves screen space, good, but it also may be regarded as a statement of political affiliation. NVO (talk) 11:07, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
 * That is unfortunate for the people involved, but I don't think this is a problem category names should attempt to resolve. A citizen of the United States (such as Timothy McVeigh, for example) might be virulently anti-American, but it doesn't change the fact that his nationality is American. People generally don't get to "pick" their nationality, so it's inevitable that there will be instances where people of certain nationalities oppose the country that they are a national of. Good Ol’factory (talk) 02:15, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
 * As the person who created the category I support this, my mistake originally. Waacstats (talk) 07:53, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
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