Commons:Categories for discussion/2022/02/African American categories

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African American categories

There is some inconsistency in the naming of categories about African Americans, so I'm making the CfD to try to standardize them. Essentially, it comes down to whether it should be written "African American" or "African-American". On English Wikipedia, they have it pretty standardized: it's "African American" as a noun but "African-American" as an adjective. On Commons, it's mostly "African American" in both cases, but a few random categories use the adjective "African-American". Rather than following enwiki's lead, I propose we just make it "African American" in all cases. This requires far far fewer moves, and it seems to be the way the world is going anyway (e.g. the AP Stylebook dropped the hyphen in 2019). --IagoQnsi (talk) 18:52, 2 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Fine with me. Consistency would certainly be good, and if this is the easier way to achieve it, sure. - Jmabel ! talk 19:48, 2 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Sure. I think the AP stylebook has made a bad choice here, but I'm probably not going to win this argument. =) -- Themightyquill (talk) 08:05, 11 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Meh. Seems like a waste of energy to me. Dronebogus (talk) 07:29, 25 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I think the change is fine, too. However, please change suffragette to suffragist. Suffragists are American and Suffragettes are largely British. It would affect this category:
- Category:African-American suffragettes to Category:African American suffragists
Megalibrarygirl (talk) 21:54, 4 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Or rather, Category:African American women's suffrage activists to match the parent category. -- Themightyquill (talk) 09:26, 14 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That would be great, too, Themightyquill! Megalibrarygirl (talk) 16:14, 27 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I support this change. Recent years have seen a major shift among style guides away from hyphenation. Topshelver 15:42, 18 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This appears to have been completed. -- Themightyquill (talk) 12:44, 19 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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