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Dear fellows. I have been going through this Category:Linguists by nationality and I see some problems. So far, it contains 86 categories, of which 82 refer to specific countries. But it is quite "uneven": some appear by their country name (e.g. "Category:Linguists from England") and others appear by their denomyn adjective (e.g. "Category:Egyptian linguists"). I think it would be good to find one single criteria for all and move the "wrong" categories accordingly. What do you say? Regards, --Fabio Descalzi, aka Fadesga (talk) 14:12, 25 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This was because of consensus at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2012_November_13#Linguists_by_nationality to use "Linguists from Foo" in cases where "Fooian" was also the name of a language, to avoid ambiguity.
Support was expressed for also renaming the others such as Egyptian, for consistency. Later BrownHairedGirl (talk · contribs) did so in 2018.[1]
Sorry, @Oculi:, I did not notice your recent Speedy nominations which have now been processed, contrary to the consensus at full CFD linked above. Would you mind if I summarily reverse the speedy renames, or would you prefer to take them to a fresh discussion? – Fayenatic London 21:10, 8 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Those speedies do seem to have been an error, so it was right to revert them.
I know that @Oculi is an experienced and conscientious editor of categories, so I am sure that this was a good faith oversight. I think I can guess how it happened: that the sample which Oculi checked had been created after the 2012 CFD, so their page histories showed no link to that CFD. May I suggest to @Fayenatic london that some note about that CFD be left on the category talk pages and/or in the edit summary of a dummy edit to the category pages? That would make it easier to avoid such tangles in future. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 08:17, 11 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Agreed. Oculi has been following up a nomination of mine and renaming a few rare hierarchies in the form "X people from Foo" to "Fooian X people". I acknowledge that those Linguists cats which were renamed speedily in 2018 had no link to the 2012 CFD in their page history. However, they do now [2] – I listed them under that CFD when I reversed the latest renaming. – Fayenatic London 09:08, 11 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Good work @Fayenatic london. You were ahead of me. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 09:14, 11 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I have also added a note on this parent category page. – Fayenatic London 23:46, 11 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I have now reversed the Speedy nominations and relisted the set under Opposed on the Speedy page. – Fayenatic London 16:24, 9 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]