Commons:Categories for discussion/2018/03/Category:Black people
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This discussion of one or several categories is now closed. Please do not make any edits to this archive.
Until fairly recently, this was a disambiguation page, but it was changed without discussion. I think it worked better the way it was. See Commons:Categories for discussion/2013/09/Category:People with black skin. The same goes for some of the newer subcategories like Category:Black males, Category:Black men, Category:Black females, Category:Black women, Category:Black people in art, Category:Black people with braids, and Category:Group photographs of Black families. Themightyquill (talk) 11:41, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
- For the same (I had presumed obvious) reasons we don't have Category:People by race. - Themightyquill (talk) 11:44, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
- See also Commons:Categories for discussion/2011/09/Category:People by colour. - Themightyquill (talk) 11:50, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
- My 2 cents: This kind of categorization (black basketball players etc) is not a homage to colour but reminds segregation(ism) to me. (Next step would be muslim sportswomen!) I advocate male-female "discrimination" (separation), especially in sports, because generally they contest in separate gender categories, in real life. But separation based on colour, creed etc is not a correct categorization, IMHO. Is there any Black Basketball Leagues anywhere? If not (I hope so) then there is no need for cats like Category:Black basketball players, something that I see we have here and they do in certain WPs. (When we have that kind of cats it may become unavoidable what we have at hand now.) I hope I don't drag the discussion somewhere else. If my comments are "silly" just ignore me and continue your discussion please. --E4024 (talk) 12:07, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
- Well, we do categorize people by creed, nationality, culture, and sometimes ancestry, but generally not by pseudoscientific racial categories. - Themightyquill (talk) 12:22, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
- I agree. People by descent seems to be ok. I suggest to back it to disambiguation page. -- Geagea (talk) 13:59, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
- Agree, it is also confusing as black and white people have different meanings in different cultures/contexts. Disambiguation would create the same situation as for Category:White people --Hannolans (talk) 15:28, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
- I agree. People by descent seems to be ok. I suggest to back it to disambiguation page. -- Geagea (talk) 13:59, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
- Well, we do categorize people by creed, nationality, culture, and sometimes ancestry, but generally not by pseudoscientific racial categories. - Themightyquill (talk) 12:22, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
Reverted to disambiguation. - Themightyquill (talk) 20:59, 18 March 2018 (UTC)