Category talk:African American cemeteries
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It is the only African American category on the Commons that has a hyphen in it so for the sake of consistency, I suggest the hyphen be removed.For example, the following categories have no hyphens: Category:African American history, Category:African American businesses, Category:Sites in the United States connected to African American history, Category:Historic racist caricatures of African Americans, Category:Gladstone Collection of African American Photographs, and Category:NARA images of African American history. I have been told that removing the hyphen is controversial and needs to be discussed for at least two weeks. Thanks, Krok6kola (talk) 16:11, 23 July 2020 (UTC)
- It's definitely not the only one. Category:African-American theatre, Category:African-American music, as the first examples I saw. Yes, we have Category:African American history but it links to en:Category:African-American history and en:African-American history. Category:African American businesses links to en:African-American businesses. Category:Historic racist caricatures of African Americans shouldn't be hyphenated because it isn't a compound adjective. I believe the other two categories are examples of source-specific fonds titles, and probably shouldn't be changed for any reason. - Themightyquill (talk) 19:24, 26 July 2020 (UTC)
- I just noticed today the category: African American history and honestly I don't understand why a hyphen wasn't used in it, as well as in several other similar categories where African American is used as a compound adjective. This is an established standard, followed also by the English Wikipedia. I volunteer to do it here on Commons too, if there is interest. —capmo (talk) 16:43, 28 July 2020 (UTC)
- @Capmo: Who has established the standard? See AP tackles language about race in this year’s style guide Columbia Jounalism Review. I thought Wikipedia followed the AP style guide. Look under Category:African American culture, Category:African Americans, Category: African Americans by occupation for just a few. There is also another discussion (somewhat related) Commons:Categories for discussion/2020/04/Category:Black Africans. Krok6kola (talk) 06:00, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
- @Capmo and Themightyquill: I would like to close this discussion and leave the category name as it is. Krok6kola (talk) 22:33, 9 May 2021 (UTC)
- That's fine by me. —capmo (talk) 01:57, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
There appears at this point to be consensus to leave this as it is. I'd be fine with a global decision on the issue here but I agree that when we have two different ways of writing similar category names and don't have consensus in either direction, there's no point to arbitrarily changing one of them. - Jmabel ! talk 05:47, 10 May 2021 (UTC)