The following discussion comes from Wikipedia:Categories for deletion, where it is currently listed as unresolved. It may be reviewed again in the future in the light of evolving standards and guidelines for categorization.21:42, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Including subcategories, Category:Black fictional characters, Category:Fictional gays and lesbians, Category:Fictional Jews, and Category:Fictional Native Americans. We don't classify individuals by their race or ethnicity, real or not. I really think we need a strict category policy that limits categories for people to what they've notably done and where they've notably done it. Postdlf 19:22, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)
I think this should be included in the /unresolved debate on problematic aspects of classifying people. -- Beland 06:08, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I think the word "minorities" here creates a series of potential paradoxes (e.g. looking at a predominantly Hispanic neighborhood of a predominantly Anglo city in a predominantly Hispanic state of the predominantly Anglo U.S. in the predominantly Hispanic Americas, who is the minority?) so the name is poorly chosen, but we have tons of lists of people by ethnicity (often masquerading as lists by nationality, but listing many people whose ethnicity matches the nation-state in question, but whose citizenship does not) so what's the problem with having categories, too, and I must be very tired to write a sentence this long, or reading too much German. -- Jmabel 07:26, Sep 3, 2004 (UTC)
The following discussion comes from Wikipedia:Categories for deletion, where it is currently listed as unresolved. It may be reviewed again in the future in the light of evolving standards and guidelines for categorization.21:42, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Including subcategories, Category:Black fictional characters, Category:Fictional gays and lesbians, Category:Fictional Jews, and Category:Fictional Native Americans. We don't classify individuals by their race or ethnicity, real or not. I really think we need a strict category policy that limits categories for people to what they've notably done and where they've notably done it. Postdlf 19:22, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)
I think this should be included in the /unresolved debate on problematic aspects of classifying people. -- Beland 06:08, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I think the word "minorities" here creates a series of potential paradoxes (e.g. looking at a predominantly Hispanic neighborhood of a predominantly Anglo city in a predominantly Hispanic state of the predominantly Anglo U.S. in the predominantly Hispanic Americas, who is the minority?) so the name is poorly chosen, but we have tons of lists of people by ethnicity (often masquerading as lists by nationality, but listing many people whose ethnicity matches the nation-state in question, but whose citizenship does not) so what's the problem with having categories, too, and I must be very tired to write a sentence this long, or reading too much German. -- Jmabel 07:26, Sep 3, 2004 (UTC)