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==Dutch peoples==
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- {{no redirect|1 = Dutch peoples }} → :Dutch people (talk · links · history · stats)
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I would advise deleting as potentially misleading; "peoples" implies a group of closely related ethnic groups, while the Dutch are generally understood to comprise a single ethnic group. — Anonymous 04:51, 26 January 2025 (UTC)
- Comment though they are also historically divided, with Hollanders, Frieslanders, etc. The Frisians of Friesland are not Dutch, but are in the Netherlands. People of the Netherlands leads to "Dutch people" making it the default article for the people of the country, not just the ethnic group. -- 65.92.246.77 (talk) 08:01, 26 January 2025 (UTC)
- :I would actually recommend retargeting the other redirect in that case. Cameroonians (a nationality, not an ethnic group) redirects to Demographics of Cameroon, so it would make sense for People of the Netherlands to redirect to Demographics of the Netherlands. — Anonymous 14:39, 26 January 2025 (UTC)
- Keep as an r from plural. I'm not seeing the implication of different groups, generally we redirect plurals to the base form of the topic. Utopes (talk / cont) 06:22, 27 January 2025 (UTC)
- :But people is already a plural. A plural of a plural implies, as the nom points out, several different groups – so delete. Cremastra (talk) 16:36, 27 January 2025 (UTC)
- ::The plural of people is "peoples"; a "people" can be singular as well. Utopes (talk / cont) 19:39, 27 January 2025 (UTC)
- :::But as Cremastra and myself have already explained, the Dutch are a people in the sense of how the word is normally used, not multiple peoples. Therefore, while it could be correct in some cases, it's inaccurate for this one. — Anonymous 19:49, 27 January 2025 (UTC)
- Keep: This redirect aligns with others. For instance, American peoples redirects to Americans British peoples redirects to British people, and Australian peoples redirects to Australians. Interestingly, Canadian peoples doesn't exist. As such, if we want to change this one, we should make sure all countries' "peoples" redirect to the same place. Significa liberdade (she/her) (talk) 01:10, 28 January 2025 (UTC)
- :Comment: We should probably go through the list of countries regardless. So far, Korean peoples redirects to Koreans, Japanese peoples doesn't exist, and Thai peoples redirects to Ethnic groups in Thailand. Regardless, out of my first seven attempts, four match the current target style, two don't exist, and one has a different target entirely. Significa liberdade (she/her) (talk) 01:12, 28 January 2025 (UTC)
- ::@Significa liberdade, the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia (and Canada, if someone wanted to add it) are all multi-ethnic societies, and the articles about their nationals acknowledge this. Therefore, it makes sense to use "peoples" to acknowledge that there are multiple ethnic groups who may call themselves "American" or "British". However, the article makes it clear that Dutch refers to a single ethnic group, not a nationality. A German living in the Netherlands is a Netherlander, but not Dutch. A Dutch person living in Australia who still remains their cultural customs is Dutch, regardless of citizenship. Therefore, when Dutch is understood as an ethnic descriptor, it would follow that "Dutch peoples" describes a group of related ethnic groups, like the Turkic peoples, Italic peoples, Iranian peoples, or Malagasy peoples. However, there are no "Dutch peoples" in this sense, so a reader who searches this will be left puzzled. Thus concludes perhaps my strongest and most coherent wikiargument ever, over a redirect that will probably get fifteen page views on the next twenty years. — Anonymous 01:58, 28 January 2025 (UTC)
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Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, CycloneYoris talk! 07:07, 2 February 2025 (UTC)
- Retarget to Demographics of the Netherlands#Migration and origin groups. American peoples -> Americans is appropriate because Americans describes the varying ethnic makeup of American people. Likewise for British peoples -> British people, and Australian peoples -> Australians. These articles describe the multicultural makeup of their respective nations. On the other hand, Dutch people discusses the Dutch ethnicity specifically, rather than the national ethnic makeup of the Netherlands. Dutch peoples ought to redirect to the content which most thoroughly describes the multiethnic composition of the nation, and I believe Demographics of the Netherlands#Migration and origin groups is the best contender at the moment. Multiculturalism in the Netherlands could be an even better option with some TLC. StainedGlassCavern (talk) 22:35, 5 February 2025 (UTC)
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Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Jay 💬 20:22, 17 February 2025 (UTC)
- Weak keep as an r from plural. It is almost unused and we shouldn't try to guess how it might be used in future. TSventon (talk) 14:32, 24 February 2025 (UTC)
:The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the redirect's talk page or in a deletion review).