Category talk:American people of African descent

Category:African-American people vs. Category:American people of African descent

Is there a guideline for which category should be used for which people's biography articles? It seems like putting a page in both categories would be redundant, but I'm not sure which one category is correct for specific articles. Thoughts? (I've put this question on the other category's talk page too.) —GrammarFascist _contribs^talk 12:46, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

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Aren't all American people "of African descent?" Isn't every human being everywhere "of African descent?" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.53.224.126 (talk) 20:18, 17 August 2017 (UTC)

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What constitutes the difference between an actual AFRICAN-AMERICAN and white person with an ounce of African ancestry

It seems as though my recent removals have been controversial so I’m bringing it to the talk page to discuss. I use Johnny Depp as a prime example. He is a white man... clear as day... he happens to have ONE ancestor from goddamn 1612 who was an African slave woman. Other than that his ancestry is European. So why would someone like Forest Whitaker or any black person who is directly African-American be in this same category? Shouldn’t this cat be reserved for people who only have an extremely distant, general African ancestry? Where is the line? In my opinion, someone who has at least one parent who is African-American shouldn’t be in this category that is so generalized that white people such as Ty Burrell are in it. I reiterate—white people with one African ancestor from the freaking 17th century.Trillfendi (talk) 01:26, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

Trillfendi, you might be interested in reading this discussion, or Talk:Meghan, Duchess of Sussex/Archive 7#Nationality/ethnicity categories and Talk:Meghan, Duchess of Sussex/Archive 8#Why "mixed race"?. Meghan Markle is in this category, but not in an African Americans category. Editors have been using this category for biracial and multiracial people (despite the fact that African Americans are a deeply mixed group anyway). Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 02:50, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

As those discussions show, who to place in an African Americans category as opposed to this category has not been applied consistently. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 03:03, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

Update: As noted here, the "American people of African descent" category is being removed per the following discussion that Marcocapelle pointed to: Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 December 1#Category:American people of African descent. And yet categories such as Category:American people of Irish descent and Category:American people of German descent are still being used to categorize people. Wikipedia should be consistent on this categorization matter or not even bother. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 00:32, 17 January 2019 (UTC)