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how many Afghan-Canadians are there in Canada?
26,000 is too little and 120,000 is too much. 80,000 sounds right and its from a reliable source. StevenLeClark ( talk) 21:44, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
I have assessed this as a Stub Class, as it only a few sentences long, and of low importance, as it is a highly specific topic within Canada. Cheers, CP 23:21, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
There are zero google hits for "Afghanistani Canadian" -wikipedia and 11,000 hits for "Afghan Canadian" -wikipedia. Kingturtle ( talk) 13:31, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
Pakistani Pashtuns are Afghan Canadians , please add a "Stan" to Afghan , ffs!!!! -- 108.173.174.134 ( talk) 04:10, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
Since when are Pakistani Pashtuns considered Afghan Canadians? Wikipedia is to educate individuals not to spread propaganda, which you and Beh-nam's sock puppets seem to be doing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.29.16.65 ( talk) 06:43, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
The same old Pashtun nationalists on wikipedia that try to make afghan mean pashtun. Read Durrand line and it will make alot more sense why they are urging pakistani pashtuns to be afghan canadian instead of pakistani canadian.... it is pathetic bs they propogate thinking every pashtun belongs to afghanistan no matter where they are .... -- 2001:1970:5E5D:A200:1DAB:198B:5FE:B3E4 ( talk) 23:36, 14 August 2015 (UTC)
On Google there is 860 hits. Some links with the term "Afghani Canadian":
AmericanAnthropologist01 ( talk) 18:50, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: No moves made per thoughts of GregKaye at end of this RM discussion Mike Cline ( talk) 17:34, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
– There is an article on
Canadians which has an article content that encompasses all types of "Canadians" as well as giving comment on such facets of Canadian people/s such as pertaining to culture and religion. As sub-sets of the Canadian people there can naturally be articles of types of Canadians such as are described by the existing articles:
Arab Canadians,
Black Canadians,
Eritrean Canadians,
Greek Canadians,
Hungarian Canadians,
Italian Canadians,
Japanese Canadians,
Korean Canadians,
Nigerian Canadians,
Polish Canadians,
Serbian Canadians,
Somali Canadians,
Sri Lankan Canadians,
Syrian Canadians and
Trinidadian and Tobagonian Canadians.
This kind of move is typically endorsed by
WP:PLURAL which includes the text: "Articles on people groups.
Canadians,
French people and
Koreans in Japan are all acceptable titles. Titles like
Belgian should be recast in the plural, i.e.,
Belgians. If a plural title without the word "people" is available, it is almost invariably chosen; e.g.,
Bangladeshis is consistently preferred to
Bangladeshi people."
The current titles are also typically infringements of
WP:NOUN which presents the guideline: "Use nouns:
Nouns and
noun phrases are normally preferred over titles using other parts of speech;..." The perceived problem is that, if a title word Canadian is used to describe more than one Canadian then it is used as an adjective. If then such a use of the word Canadian is placed after another adjective like Afghan then the result is that we are left with two
"coordinate adjectives" in sequence and a question may be naturally raised: Afghan Canadian what?
As alternatives, other titles might be perfectly acceptable and, as an example, a title such as
Afghan Canadian ethnic group could be used.
Another option would be to use an ".. in Canada" format and examples of this type of use are:
Assyrians in Canada,
Belarusians in Canada,
Berbers in Canada,
Georgians in Canada,
Kazakhs in Canada,
Kurds in Canada,
Moldovans in Canada,
Romani people in Canada,
Singaporeans in Canada,
Tajiks in Canada and
Tatars in Canada.
Other related articles are:
Canadians of Danish descent,
Canadians of Dutch descent,
Canadians of German ethnicity,
Canadians of Laotian descent and
List of people of Korean descent in Canada.
Wikipedia:Naming conventions (ethnicities and tribes) Presents the possibility of singular articles such as
African American but I think that this is contrary to the content of a number of Wikipedia articles starting
"African Americans ...".
At this stage, until other moves are proposed, I think that the simple thing would just be to apply
WP:PLURAL and add and "s" to the titles.
This would bring commonality to articles such as
French Canadians in the Political Life of the Province of Alberta,
Chinese Canadians in British Columbia,
Indo-Canadians in British Columbia,
Japanese Canadians in the Greater Toronto Area,
Indo-Canadians in Greater Vancouver and
Vietnamese Canadians in the Greater Toronto Area.
Greg
Kaye 22:00, 13 April 2015 (UTC)
Greg[[User talk:|Kaye]] 22:00, 13 April 2015 (UTC)
I just cannot see this making a significant improvement over the article names existing. Savvyjack23 ( talk) 23:39, 13 April 2015 (UTC)
Comment In the context of the content presented above I think it would be beneficial to work out a way forward on the issue of the presentation of ethnic groups and my thinking has been that a multiple move would be an appropriate way to bring a range of inputs together. However I see that there has been objection to multiple moves as have been presented regarding national groups (many of which are classed as ethnicities). While I think that the content of the move is appropriate and think that its content should be considered on its own merits, I am also open to a moratorium proposal on multiple moves as suggested by Andrewa and for this RM to be closed if considered necessary if it is considered that other routes forward are more appropriate. Greg Kaye 05:17, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
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