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This category was nominated for purging nationality categories from Arab people on 23 August 2023. The result of the discussion was no consensus.
In my opinion, Articles about Egyptian people shouldn't be added to this category. Instead, please consider adding articles to one or more of the existing subcategories or creating new subcategories.
We already have a List of Egyptians. This article is listed in the Egyptian people category. So, there is no need to identify all Egyptian people by listing all articles here.
Quoting from WP:CG#Some general guidelines: "Articles should not usually be in both a category and its subcategory". Also "There are often occasions when articles might ideally be moved from a category to two or more of its subcategories, but not all of the subcategories exist. In such cases consider creating the additional subcategories, but if you decide not to do so, leave the articles in the parent category for the time being".
The current situation of the category is messy. Some articles are listed here, in Category:Egyptian people stubs and in other subactegories as well. Others e.g. Taha Hussein (a well-known Egyptian writer) is only in the Egyptian writers subcategory.
By time, the number of articles about Egyptian people will increase and it will get even messier.