- The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more categories. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
- The result of the discussion was: no consensus. — ξxplicit 22:46, 6 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Nominator's rationale: Containerize. For example we know from Cornish-language writers and Cornish-language activists that they are Cornish-speaking and so these are decent subcategories, and we may well add e.g. Cornish-language singers and actors in Cornish-language television as other child categories with people of whom we are sure that they were users of the Cornish language as a defining characteristic. But for all people that can't be put in child categories like these, speaking Cornish is merely accidental, not defining. By the way, many articles in this category are also in one of the child categories, already. Also by the way, this nomination is very similar as the one for Welsh-speaking people, to be found here. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:58, 4 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment do all the writers speak Cornish? Or do they only read/write Cornish? Should this instead by Cornish users (and so on for all language categories)? Also, if these speak this language, do they actually perform in this language? -- 70.51.202.113 (talk) 05:50, 5 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- That's actually a very good question and I don't have an answer to it. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:18, 5 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Containerize per nom. The level of use of this minority language is already hard to verify. We don't need unsourced categories of speakers. Dimadick (talk) 09:16, 5 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Oppose, similarly to the recent discussion about speakers of Welsh. There is no correlation that all Cornish people speak Cornish (in fact far, far smaller proportion speak Cornish than the percentage of Welsh people that speak Welsh). Because Cornish is an extreme minority language with a tiny number of speakers, I would contend that anyone who speaks Cornish with a degree of fluency is defined by this. The proponents of these CfD discussions seem to be equating minority languages with major languages (it goes without saying that all French people speak French so a Category:French speakers would indeed be of no use). Sionk (talk) 20:34, 6 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Containerize based on previous discussion about Welsh.John Pack Lambert (talk) 06:35, 7 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Oppose - a ludicrous idea, even sillier than the proposal to containerize Welsh-speaking people, since many Cornish speakers are notable purely for their skills in speaking Cornish. Deb (talk) 11:48, 7 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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- Aha, notable as the last Cornish speaker. While we do not keep categories for a single article, she is well-kept in Category:People in Cornish history anyway. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:09, 7 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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- If others exist I wouldn't mind having Category:Last Cornish-speaking people of the 17th century. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:52, 8 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Then why not have a general category, rather than shoe-horning them into contrived ones. The numbers of notable Cornish speakers is small, which you must admit makes them unusual and distinct for their language skills. Sionk (talk) 18:00, 8 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Re: "even sillier than the proposal to containerize Welsh-speaking people" – But that's precisely what the consensus arrived at to do (a discussion I've reopened at the Scottish Gaelic-related CfD; these "-speaking people" categories should be deleted in favor of the "-language occupations" equivalents). — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 23:09, 15 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Oppose, The ability to speak Cornish is highly likely to be defining to a person in that category. Though I don't understand why it needs to be defining to a person; we have the category LGBT people, and that doesn't need to be defining, just that the person has stated their sexuality. We have multiple articles of people who are not defined by the categories that they are placed in. FruitMonkey (talk) 20:56, 8 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete people by languages spoken is a bad idea. How would Category:English-speaking people fare? Carlossuarez46 (talk) 18:11, 9 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- The reason for the difference was explained earlier in the discussion. It appear that only people familiar with the issue of minority languages can truly understand the importance of this. Deb (talk) 08:42, 10 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment - List_of_endangered_languages_in_Europe#United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Northern_Ireland may also be of interest to those monoglot contributors who are having difficulty understanding the reason for such categories. Deb (talk) 08:45, 10 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Containerize I'm fine with Cornish language speaking being defining for poets, language activists, linguists, etc.. Their notabiliy is closely tied to their language. To open up what language someone speaks as inherently notable, even for regional languages, opens us up to trivial intersections per WP:TRIVIALCAT. RevelationDirect (talk) 09:41, 12 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep -- The Cornish language became extinct a couple of hundred years ago. It has since been revived, but remains nan unusual accomplishment. It is an unusual characteristic and hence notable. Most Cornish people speak no Cornish. Speaking English or Welsh (which vast numbers of people do) is clearly a NN characteristic and would not provide the basis for a useful category (though a Welsh-speaking container category might be viable). I have never heard of Cornish language actors or TV. Peterkingiron (talk) 14:49, 12 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete or containerize at least (as with the Welsh equivalent of this category, which I think should also be deleted). It would be good to delete these outright, as they are overcategorization by skill, similar to a "Category:People who can play trombone" or "Category:People who know how to swing dance". What we really want is Category:Cornish-language occupations (and already have for Category:Scottish Gaelic-language occupations, Category:Welsh-language occupations, Category:Spanish-language occupations, etc., etc.), with people categorized under them for occupationally notable use of the language: Category:Cornish-language writers, etc. The existence of categories like Category:Cornish-speaking people, Category:Scottish Gaelic-speaking people, Category:Welsh-speaking people, etc., is leading inevitably to the creation of trivial-intersection categories like Category:Welsh-speaking sportspeople, which is at CfD here. See also the related ongoing CfD for Category:Scottish Gaelic-speaking people, here. It's noteworthy that this seems to be a Celtic language activism thing; I don't see things like Category:Spanish-speaking people, Category:Navajo-speaking people, Category:Japanese-speaking people, etc., etc. PS: I say that as a bit of a Celtic language activist myself (member of Celtic League, American Branch since the 1990s), and someone whose focus in a linguistics minor at university was Celtic languages. One's interest in, even passion for, such things does not translate into a necessity for categorization schemes that do not work well here. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 23:09, 15 September 2015 (UTC)))[reply]
PS: I've reopened discussion about deleting instead of containinerizing the Welsh equivalent of this category, as part of the ongoing discussion of the Scottish Gaelic one. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 19:29, 16 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Surely you're not serious when you say Cornish is comparable with Spanish or Japanese?! No-one would ever suggest (or support) a Category:Spanish-speaking people! Sionk (talk) 18:27, 16 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- I didn't say "Cornish is comparable with Spanish or Japanese"; you're coming up with those words, putting them in my mouth, and then asking me if I'm serious about it. That's a straw man. I'm not even sure what you mean by "comparable", anyway. They can certainly be compared in various ways; both are Indo-European languages from Western Europe, for example, and both, as topics here, are subject equally to the exact same guidelines and policies. I know no one would support such a category for less obscure languages that aren't the subject of activism that raises WP:NOT#ADVOCACY concerns. We shouldn't have such categories for those that do, especially when the rationale for them appears to be the very advocacy that is against policy. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 19:29, 16 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Containerize or delete and replace by Category:People in Cornish-language occupations for people who are notable as a Cornish-language writer, translater etc. DexDor (talk) 06:01, 16 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Except it would be Category:Cornish-language occupations, per Category:Irish-language occupations, Category:Welsh-language occupations, Category:Scottish Gaelic-language occupations, Category:Spanish-language occupations, etc. These are container categories for Category:Irish-language singers, etc., etc., each of which contain bio articles. So, any Category:People in Cornish-language occupations, Category:People in Irish-language occupations, Category:People in Spanish-language occupations, etc., would be 100% redundant with the shorter-named versions of these categories. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 22:46, 16 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Follow-up: Anyone notable only for being among the last speakers of Cornish before its natural language-death in the 17th century can simply be put into Category:Cornish language; a handful of such people being memorialized doesn't necessitate a whole category for them. Anyone today notable for use of Revived Cornish can be put into Category:Cornish-language activists, and into whatever artistic/authorial/performative category they're actually notable for (Cornish-language writers, Linguists of Cornish, etc.); it's not really plausible than anyone could be notable for knowing Cornish yet not using it in a way that can be normally categorized without creating a pointless "Cornish-speaking people" category. (And as someone noted above, most people with some working fluency in Revived Cornish or one of its variants are writers in the language, no conversational speakers of it, so "-speaking people" is wrong to begin with). — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 22:46, 16 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep per Deb, with the legitimate question attached: what does "containerize" mean? It appears to not be defined or explained anywhere. —烏Γ (kaw), 09:11, 18 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.