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Comment: So will the last two editors, assuming that you're not the same and you're not sockpuppeting, propose that the articles mentioned above change as well? --Walter Görlitz (talk) 14:15, 18 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
If you have something to accuse me of, go file a checkuser request. If not, your time would be better spent familiarising yourself with Wikipedia's article titles guideline. Wikipedia:Use common names: "Wikipedia ... uses the name which is most frequently used to refer to the subject in English-language reliable sources". "Germans in Paraguay" gets hundreds of Google Books hits. "Germans * in Paraguay" gets hundreds more. In contrast "German Paraguayan" gets just 62 hits, half of which aren't even on topic but discuss state relations between Germany and Paraguay, or find cases where the words "German" and "Paraguayan" coincidentally appeared next to each other in a list of nationalities. In the plural form you get a mere three more hits.
"Homogeneity" among a set of articles is not the primary determinant of what the title should be. Besides, it is highly unlikely that reliable sources about Germans are going to follow the same naming convention for every single country that Germans emigrated to across the centuries, when these countries are spread all over the world, speak multiple languages, have widely differing attitudes towards immigration and multiculturalism, etc. The terms "German Americans" and "German Argentines" are in reasonably widespread use, so no, I do not propose that those articles change. cab (call) 15:08, 18 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
To clarify, the numbers I gave are for Google Books hits above. In contrast to web hits, the title of a Wikipedia article has little if any influence on the number of Google Books hits (you might see a single Books LLC result). cab (call) 15:54, 18 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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