Category talk:Early Germanic people

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Ethnic groups

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This category was nominated for merging on 5 February 2019. The result of the discussion was keep.

Scope edit

Latest comment: 1 year ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Per Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2019_February_5#Category:Germanic_people, this category only deals with individuals from Category:Historical Germanic peoples. It does not include individuals from modern Category:Germanic ethnic groups.
- Per Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2023_March_21#Category:Germanic_people_by_occupation, the fact that modern people natively speak a language that belongs to the Germanic language family is WP:NONDEFINING for their career per WP:OCEGRS.
Per Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2022_May_12#Category:21st-century_Germanic_people and the factual current contents of Category:Germanic people by century, the 12th century (probably because the Viking Age ended then) serves as the cutoff point.
Ergo, all people belonging to Germanic peoples / Germanic ethnic groups that didn't yet exist in the 12th century (such as Category:Afrikaner people) are to be removed from this category. Cheers,

Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 15:04, 9 April 2023 (UTC)Reply

For the record, Category:Germanic ethnic groups was deleted per Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2023_April_9#Category:Germanic_ethnic_groups. – Fayenatic London 21:27, 19 April 2023 (UTC)Reply

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