Module talk:CountryAdjectiveDemonym/Adjectives
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List issues
Comparing the list here to List of adjectival and demonymic forms for countries and nations (which WP:NCTV and WP:NCFILM use), there are some inconsistencies:
- Botswana - seems Botswanan would be more correct here per this.
- Central African Republic has "Central African" in the infobox.
- Democratic Republic of the Congo and Republic of the Congo have "Congolese" in the infobox.
- Curaçao has "Curaçaoan" in the infobox.
- Dominica and Dominican Republic have "Dominican" in the infobox.
- Lesotho has "Basotho" in the infobox.
- Liechtenstein has "Liechtensteiner" in the infobox.
- Luxembourg has "Luxembourg" and "Luxembourgish" in the infobox, but not "Luxembourgian".
- Federated States of Micronesia has "Micronesian" in the infobox.
- Philippines should probably use "Philippine" according to Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Philippine-related articles when dealing with inanimate nouns. So for a television program is would be "Philippine TV program" and not "Filipino TV program".
- Somalia has "Somali" in the infobox.
- Somaliland has "Somali" and "Somalilander" in the infobox, but not "Somaliland".
Additionally, these also have issues:
- Georgia is missing from the list.
- Kiribati is listed twice.
- Eswatini should be moved to "E" instead of "S".
Thanks for creating this list, as this was something I was looking for myself. --Gonnym (talk) 13:07, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
- @BrownHairedGirl: pinging you just in-case this doesn't appear on your watchlist. --Gonnym (talk) 13:11, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
- @Gonnym: I think you mistake the purpose of the list. It is not some sort of ground-up attempt to build a list of demonyms. Instead it is a map of the current usage in category names, to allow cross-mapping. It takes no view on whether anyone might view any of the current usages as right or wrong. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 14:33, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
- But why not actually use the correct demonyms? In any case, if that one liner was the response to my issues, I'll just have to duplicate this entire list for just a few fixes. That's some redundant code, but whatever. --Gonnym (talk) 14:39, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
- @Gonnym: I think you mistake the purpose of the list. It is not some sort of ground-up attempt to build a list of demonyms. Instead it is a map of the current usage in category names, to allow cross-mapping. It takes no view on whether anyone might view any of the current usages as right or wrong. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 14:33, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
Name change
Could you please move this module to something like Module:Country adjective so it would not be a sub-page of another module? I would like to use this module and see no reason why this shouldn't be a generalized module instead of a sub-module. It would also make finding it easier for other editors (I know I would never have found it without someone else pointing me to it). --Gonnym (talk) 13:10, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
- @Gonnym: see my reply above. This a list whose purpose is very narrow and precise: mapping country names to the demonym as currently used in the category system. I have objection to a wider usage of it, provided that core purpose remains absolutely unchanged. So a new name woulkd have to be something like Module:Category country name to category country adjective pairs. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 14:37, 19 May 2019 (UTC)