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earlier comments

Anyone have an opinion on which of these articles is a good model for the whole category?

--babbage 01:35, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC) I am interested in why the tenacious warriors, the Madi, are notmentioned in this section. They successfully fought General Gordon in Khartoum - shouldn't be ignored!

Bari

The following text was on the category page. I've moved it here because it obviously didn't belong there, but I don't know whether it should be its own article. --Lee Hunter 00:54, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Thanks LeeHunter: I needed to place a request to have the Bari article lounged in the appropriate category (Ethnic groups of Africa) along with the other peers.--Loro LoLaja Kujjo 13:15, 06 April 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Ok I've moved that text to a new article called Bari people and added a note to the Bari disambiguation page.

The Hungarianab and magyarab is the same ethnic group!!!

Dizzying categories

I won't even try to do anything with this, but wanted to raise the subject - is there a structure intended for this topic and the various categories under it? What is the thinking, what are the plans?

It seems that anything having to do with African ethnicities and countries will lead to a logical solution that might also be cumbersome. THat is, so many groups are cut by borders. On the one hand, that's no problem - you add x group to a,b, & c countries "Ethnic groups of..." categories. But on the other, it is logical to consider the group as an Ethnic group of Africa, or at least of a region of the continent. That could add another layer of category to all ethnic groups on the continent - which maybe is okay, but it isn't done systematically.

What makes this more complicated (and a bit confounding) is that there are also larger groupings like Nguni or Manding that are accepted meta-categories - "meta-ethnicities" without the term - that cross even more country boundaries, add yet another level of categorization, and open the question of trees or hierarchies in the Category page - which could certainly help readers/researchers, even if it's not the way the wiki works.

Another possibility might be more dynamic ways of categorizing, which shift, a little like when you have a large set of pairs of correspondences in a spreadsheet/table format and can alphabetize by one column and have related items in proximity according to that column's logic, and then by the other column and shift the order to reflect that column's logic. (A simple example is a list of x-y language word pairs and realphabetizing according to language x or y; in this case I'm thinking of some conceptual/categorical differences, not alphabetic order)

I have no recommendation here but am thinking that some more thought needs to be given to this, especially if it is hoped that a lot more people will contribute more info.--A12n 20:42, 7 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Should it be per country?

Many ethnic groups r not limited to one country, masai being best example, or should it just list all ethnic groups by themselves? as well as by country?--HalaTruth(ሀላካሕ) 12:52, 21 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]