Editing Category talk:American crews

==Question!==

i know to those in the United States, "American" means from The States. however, Canadians see themselves as American as well. then there's Mexico (which is indeed a part of North America), and then '''all''' of Central and South America. so does this category encompass them all, or should the category be renamed to "Crews from the United States"? '''[[User:Silverdragon706|FyreNWater]]''' -  <small>([[User talk:Silverdragon706|Talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/FyreNWater|Contributions]] )</small> 16:45, October 27, 2007 (EDT)

:I don't know a single Canadian who considers themselves an American. The word "American" in the English language is rarely used to refer to anyone other than people from the United States. If you really feel up to the challenge of renaming it, bear in mind that it also requires the laborious task of editing every article contained in [[:Category:American smashers]] as well for standardization. Haha, be my guest, but I ain't doin' it! :^) Even so, though, you'd be fighting quite a losing battle on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_Civil_War American Civil War], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_football American Football], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian American Indian] and the fact that by law, products that are labelled as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made_in_USA_label American-made] all have to legally carry a "Made in USA" label. -- <font color="000023">'''[[User:Randall00|RJM]]'''</font> <sup>''[[User talk:Randall00|Talk]]''</sup> 16:59, October 27, 2007 (EDT)

I think that we shoul put it as Unites States Crews  or U.S.A crews becuase I indeed Know some Canedians and Mexicans that call themself americans. Also North, South and Central have all America on it. (I fell like a politic can we talk about videogames again? XD) --[[User:Fandangox|Fandangox]] 17:48, October 27, 2007 (EDT)
:i think to avoid any issues, we should move it to "Crews from the United States". '''[[User:Silverdragon706|FyreNWater]]''' -  <small>([[User talk:Silverdragon706|Talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/FyreNWater|Contributions]] )</small> 22:28, October 27, 2007 (EDT)

Will do, Can I move it to U.S.A crews? is more short. --[[User:Fandangox|Fandangox]] 22:30, October 27, 2007 (EDT)

:You're crazy. Please don't do that. -- <font color="000023">'''[[User:Randall00|RJM]]'''</font> <sup>''[[User talk:Randall00|Talk]]''</sup> 01:41, October 28, 2007 (EDT)

[http://m-w.com/dictionary/american] note that "American" as "from the USA" comes in at definition #3. '''[[User:Silverdragon706|FyreNWater]]''' -  <small>([[User talk:Silverdragon706|Talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/FyreNWater|Contributions]] )</small> 23:58, October 28, 2007 (EDT)

:Note this:

:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:American_people_by_ethnic_or_national_origin
:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:American_people_by_occupation
:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:American_people_by_religion
:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:American_people_by_state
:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:American_women
:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:American_people_by_county
:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:American_people_by_political_party
:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:People_by_educational_institution_in_the_United_States
:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:American_children
:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:American_adoptees
:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Immigrants_to_the_United_States
:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:People_by_city_in_the_United_States
:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:LGBT_people_from_the_United_States

:These are all subcategories to Wikipedia's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:American_people Category:American people]. This debate was already settled over there and the word "American" chiefly is used to describe people from the United States (as noted [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_%28word%29 here]). Once again, I should stress that undertaking a project defying what a considerably ''more'' encyclopedic community has already deemed to be correct not only requires the renaming of [[:Category:American crews]], but also the renaming of every category in [[smasher]] articles featured under [[:Category:American smashers]]. That's a crazy make-work project on a wiki project that doesn't need to make any more work than we've already got. --<font color="000023">'''[[User:Randall00|RJM]]'''</font> <sup>''[[User talk:Randall00|Talk]]''</sup> 05:58, October 29, 2007 (EDT)

::heh. 'cause everything Wikipedia says is right. well, go ahead and stick with what we've got. just don't complain when Canadian, Mexican, Central American, and South American smashers try to join and get in fights over acceptance. '''[[User:Silverdragon706|FyreNWater]]''' -  <small>([[User talk:Silverdragon706|Talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/FyreNWater|Contributions]] )</small> 13:52, October 29, 2007 (EDT)

:::Not because everything Wikipedia says is right but because Wikipedia is the largest single global human effort at the distribution of knowledge by this kind of mass media there has ever been and if this issue was brought up over there before (which is most certainly was) then that means that the community consensus has been largely in favour of popular usage for the word "American" describing people from the United States. By modelling off of their example, I'm skipping the same human consensus that we would've come to here without having to go through the necessary debate. --<font color="000023">'''[[User:Randall00|RJM]]'''</font> <sup>''[[User talk:Randall00|Talk]]''</sup> 19:10, October 29, 2007 (EDT)

Still complaining about that? The link that linked to Amercian crews explaining that this was the U.S.A crews and with the other links to other Americans crews was perfect. is funny how this is one of the bigger complaints of this wiki and its about the game... want some fries with that? --[[User:Fandangox|Fandangox]] 20:20, October 29, 2007 (EDT)
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	:::Not because everything Wikipedia says is right but because Wikipedia is the largest single global human effort at the distribution of knowledge by this kind of mass media there has ever been and if this issue was brought up over there before (which is most certainly was) then that means that the community consensus has been largely in favour of popular usage for the word "American" describing people from the United States. By modelling off of their example, I'm skipping the same human consensus that we would've come to here without having to go through the necessary debate. --<font color="000023">'''[[User:Randall00\|RJM]]'''</font> <sup>''[[User talk:Randall00\|Talk]]''</sup> 19:10, October 29, 2007 (EDT)		:::Not because everything Wikipedia says is right but because Wikipedia is the largest single global human effort at the distribution of knowledge by this kind of mass media there has ever been and if this issue was brought up over there before (which is most certainly was) then that means that the community consensus has been largely in favour of popular usage for the word "American" describing people from the United States. By modelling off of their example, I'm skipping the same human consensus that we would've come to here without having to go through the necessary debate. --<font color="000023">'''[[User:Randall00\|RJM]]'''</font> <sup>''[[User talk:Randall00\|Talk]]''</sup> 19:10, October 29, 2007 (EDT)

	Still complaining about that? The link that linked to Amercian crews explaining that this was the U.S.A crews and with the other links to other Americans crews was perfect. is funny how this is one of the bigger complaints of this wiki and ~~itsn't~~ about the game... want some fries with that? --[[User:Fandangox\|Fandangox]] 20:20, October 29, 2007 (EDT)		Still complaining about that? The link that linked to Amercian crews explaining that this was the U.S.A crews and with the other links to other Americans crews was perfect. is funny how this is one of the bigger complaints of this wiki and its about the game... want some fries with that? --[[User:Fandangox\|Fandangox]] 20:20, October 29, 2007 (EDT)
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