Commons:Categories for discussion/2013/10/Category:White people
This can either be patrolled, or simply renamed Category:People colored white. I think having a category for white people is just asking for trouble. Mercurywoodrose (talk) 03:43, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
- Opposition. White people are White people, this is a roof-racial definition (parallelling Black people, Asians, Latinos etc) widely-acceptable among most fields of social sciences and media today (this is what earlier in the 20th century was "Caucasians"). Such categories obviously don't deal with synthetic paint on body, but with the complexity of human society, which Wiki has no reason to escape. Orrlingtalk 00:14, 15 October 2013 (UTC)
- I understand patrolling it. however, the category should have about a half million images in it. we need to add at least a small fraction of them if kept as a racial classification. and we have to decide which half/3/4 white/1/4 white belong in it.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 02:40, 15 October 2013 (UTC)
- I agree partly. These are fair points. Maybe you should see this discussion, that is sort of similar, and have your take there too. Orrlingtalk 08:38, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
- I understand patrolling it. however, the category should have about a half million images in it. we need to add at least a small fraction of them if kept as a racial classification. and we have to decide which half/3/4 white/1/4 white belong in it.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 02:40, 15 October 2013 (UTC)
I lift any previous opposition by me to dismantling this category. Now that we've settled Category:People with black skin by recategorizing its content into Category:Black Africans and the like I think that the White racial companion can be seen as unneeded too. Media relating to people that are artificially coloured white can be categorized into a new "Category:People colored white". Orrlingtalk 06:42, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
- Orrling: What the heck does "roof-racial" mean?--Brainy J (talk) 21:59, 12 June 2014 (UTC)
- Probably "root-racial", ive heard the phrase "root race" used by some theosophists, and may refer to the 3 races of man hypothesis (or 5 races, etc) popular in an earlier time. just speculation. PS there is no definition of white people. its a cultural term, with multiple meanings, but no agreed on scientific definition.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 01:04, 13 June 2014 (UTC)
Turned into disambiguation page like Category:Black people, and contents moved to Category:People of European descent as per Commons:Categories for discussion/2011/09/Category:People by colour. "White people of X" categories remain open for discussion - they may use the official terminology of the countries in question, I don't know. - Themightyquill (talk) 18:56, 6 June 2016 (UTC)