Category talk:American people of Latvian-Jewish descent

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This article was nominated for deletion review on 28 May 2010. The result of the discussion was overturn.

This category was nominated for renaming on 16 June 2010. The result of the discussion was rename those with hyphens to non-hyphenated form, no consensus on the rest.

This category was nominated for renaming on 18 November 2010. The result of the discussion was rename to Option B.

This category was nominated for renaming on 28 July 2011. The result of the discussion was no consensus to rename to a particular scheme.

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This category makes no sense

American Jews of Latvian descent makes absolutely no sense. Most of the persons categorized in this category were born in the time of the Russian Empire, and at the time Jews and Latvians were two different ethnicities, not nationalities. Latvian only became a nationality in 1918 when the Republic of Latvia was proclaimed. The correct terminology for people descending from Jews born in the Russian Empire would be American Jews of Russian descent. ^Talk/♥фĩłдωəß♥\^Work 18:24, 25 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]