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The result of the move request was: moved to People of the Dominican Republic. Jenks24 (talk) 15:07, 14 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Dominican people (Dominican Republic) → Dominicans (Dominican Republic) – The demonym describing a person or thing from the Dominican Republic is Dominican and the plural form is used to describe its natives (nothing meant by word choice, its just less nationalistic than nationals.

Note: following other moves I should have put this through manually but had originally thought to RM move to Dominicans which currently acts as a redirect to the Dominican Order.

Also propose that Dominicans turned into a (dare I use the terminology in Wikipedia) navigation page which I guess is the biggest issue in the RM.

This request follows the recent request for:

• "Azerbaijani people → Azerbaijanis
• Bahamian people → Bahamians
• Bangladeshi people → Bangladeshis
• Barbadian people → Barbadians
• Bolivian people → Bolivians
• Chilean people → Chileans
• Colombian people → Colombians

– And many similar articles ..." Relisted. BDD (talk) 18:19, 19 May 2015 (UTC) GregKaye 19:40, 1 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment Dominicans should redirect to the disambiguation page Dominican, per uses for Dominican Order and Dominica and Dominican Republic -- 65.94.43.89 (talk) 09:37, 2 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Agreed I support this redirect. Jerodlycett (talk) 09:44, 2 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Strong oppose, and this article should be moved to Dominicans as there are over 100 times as many Dominicans from the DR as from Dominica. Weak support another move to Dominican people. "Oh my gosh but there are people from Dominica, and what about if someone wants that article??" Well, there's this awesome thing called a hatnote... Red Slash 00:04, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Oppose. This needs further discussion concerning many articles, see for example Talk:List of people from Dominica#Requested move 1 April 2015. Is there a relevant naming convention for the terms Dominican and Dominicans? Maybe not quite that detailed, but if not then we may need to develop one. Andrewa (talk) 22:11, 9 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Support as proposed. I wouldn't oppose a move to Dominicans.--Cúchullain ^t/c 14:46, 11 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment the proposed title can be used to indicate members of the Dominican Order in the Dominican Republic, so is a bad name to use -- 65.94.43.89 (talk) 03:45, 16 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• I'm OK with the move as proposed but could the proposed title mean members of the Dominican Order in the state formerly known as Santo Domingo? Oppose a move to Dominicans which should redirect to the disambiguation page Dominican. —  AjaxSmack  21:28, 19 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

*Propose move to People of the Dominican Republic. The parenthetical disambiguation is rubbish, and we all know it. This proposed title stands in line with WP:NATURAL, and removes all ambiguity. RGloucester — ☎ 00:58, 20 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• • I support the alternate proposal of "People of the Dominican Republic" as the choice of clarity -- 65.94.43.89 (talk) 05:32, 20 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

this is a new way of doing things GregKaye 21:51, 20 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

support: The only reason it should have "people" on the end is when the demonym can be used for the spoken language. Example: "French people," "English people," etc. Savvyjack23 (talk) 23:36, 20 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose, preferring Dominicans still per WP:PRIMARYTOPIC and WP:UCN. But I do recognize that this would still be an improvement from the dismal current situation. Red Slash 05:39, 24 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Support move to People of the Dominican Republic. I note that in a different but comparable situation, Congolese and Congolese people are both disambiguation pages. Cobblet (talk) 22:41, 5 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the move request was: not moved. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 10:49, 26 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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People of the Dominican Republic → Dominicans – Okay, so there are two issues that we're going to tackle at once in the discussion. First off, the issue with WP:PLURALizing titles. This is now common practice for peoples. We always prefer Bangladeshis to Bangladeshi people for titles.

But second is the issue of WP:PRIMARYTOPIC.

There are three different meanings for "Dominicans" at the Dominican page, which is a disambiguation page where Dominicans currently redirects. (There are thirteen pages listed, but ten of them are titles like Culture of the Dominican Republic which you would never search for by using the term Dominicans. See WP:PLURALPT.) One is the people of the Dominican Order of the Catholic Church. One is the people of Dominica. One is the people of the Dominican Republic.

There are 6,058 Dominican friars.

There are 72,301 people on the island of Dominica.

But there are more than 9.5 million people who claim the Dominican Republic as their place of ancestry.

I know that "Dominicans" can mean more than one thing. But Java means more than one thing, too, and we gave that island primary topic. Manchester means more than one thing, too, but we give the British city primary topic. We let Boston take you to an American city instead of an English one or a disambiguation page because the Boston in New England is far, far more noteworthy. I would say that a roughly 9,760,000-strong people group has "substantially greater enduring notability and educational value" than two groups totaling 78,000 people. This is a clear primary topic by the second criterion of WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. Thank you for your time. Red Slash 00:11, 17 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Unsure – I want to support this proposal, for various reasons expressed above, but I'm still slightly concerned about tossing a country aside, however small, and pretending that it does not have possession of its own demonym or people. The difference between the two Bostons is readily apparent, and is simply a matter of navigation. However, in this case, we are dealing with ethnic/national affiliation, which is a touchy subject that requires more carefulness. RGloucester — ☎ 01:46, 17 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• I mean, of course it has its own demonym - but the problem is that there are over a hundred times as many Dominicans from the DR as the much smaller Dominica. What's the ratio that determines primary topic? Isn't 100:1 enough? Would there have to be 90 million people in the DR? 900 million? Please understand, it's not like Dominica and its people are unimportant. But they also aren't each 100 times as important as a Dominican from the DR. Red Slash 04:16, 17 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I think that, when it comes to national/ethnic groups, WP:PRIMARYTOPIC may not be the best policy to lean on, given the sensitive nature of such matters. In this case, I feel that WP:CONCISE and WP:PRECISE are more important. In WP:CONCISE, we are told that the title should be short enough to identify the subject, but only that short. "Dominicans" does not necessarily identify the subject in an unambiguous or WP:PRECISE way, and therefore it isn't really a useful title, whether for Dominica people or Santo Domingo people or even for the religious order. The present title is not the best title, but it is the only one that eliminates these problems out of hand. RGloucester — ☎ 15:13, 17 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Support as proposed. ★ Nacho ★ (Talk page) ★ 05:16, 17 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Strong oppose there's the Dominican Republic, Dominica and the Dominican Order. Population statistics per country do not show primary topicness. Multiple countries can use this term, and in historic context, the Dominican Order is older. Further, the Dominican Order has been involved in various developments of Western Civilization, so is not simply the current count of members of the order, since this is not WikiNews. -- 67.70.32.190 (talk) 11:41, 17 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Dominica / Dominican Republic / Dominican Order
  • , would you please explain to me how 9.7 million people don't have primary topic over 78,000. Red Slash 17:42, 24 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose denoting any of the three as primary topics, per ip67. Elizium23 (talk) 19:04, 17 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Elizium23, would you please explain to me how 9.7 million people don't have primary topic over 78,000. Red Slash 17:42, 24 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose not the primary topic for "Dominicans", page view statistics show that Dominican Order is a more popular topic and Dominicans was a redirect to that article until recently. Peter James (talk) 21:01, 17 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • And what would pageviews tell you for Apple? Enduring educational value is strongly in favor of the large people group. If the Dominican Republic were a majority-white country in Europe, we wouldn't even have this discussion and you'd be mocked for suggesting that the group of 9 million isn't the primary topic. But because they're in a Caribbean island and they're mostly mixed-race or black, their article is seen as less relevant. You would never see something of this nature for Basques, and there's over three times as many Dominicans from the DR. Red Slash 01:58, 18 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    • It is tiresome and offensive for you to play the race card here. It is a clear failure of WP:AGF. Stop it. Elizium23 (talk) 02:15, 18 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    • I also find it hypocritical of Red Slash to insist on retargeting the Dominicans redirect before this process has finished while accusing others of doing similar things out-of-process and calling that behavior "Low!" Elizium23 (talk) 02:43, 19 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
      • That redirect was in place before this discussion. And I cannot conceive of any reason why a people of over 9.7 million human beings somehow don't have primary topic over a group of 78,000. If it's not racism, what is it? Please, I'm open to suggestions. Red Slash 17:42, 24 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
      • The race argument doesn't fly in this case anyway. The People of Dominica are even more melanin endowed than those of the DR (only 0.8% are of European imperialist extraction) and the Dominican Order has members from all over the world. —  AjaxSmack  05:25, 20 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Oppose per WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. However, "Dominicans" should probably direct to the Domincan DAB page. —  AjaxSmack  05:25, 20 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • AjaxSmack, would you please explain to me how 9.7 million people don't have primary topic over 78,000. Red Slash 17:42, 24 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    • I don't base my argument on counting people. Articles are titled based on encyclopedic importance, not on population ranks. (Otherwise, we'd need to move Troy and Carthage since Troy, New York and Carthage, Missouri have larger populations). I'm more concerned with the relative importance of the Dominican Order than of the inhabitants of Dominica. 67.70.32.190 provides a more detailed argument above on the importance of the order that I concur with. —  AjaxSmack  18:40, 24 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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