Wikipedia:Naming conventions (categories)/Usage of American
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The category naming conventions specify the country names to use in categories for "x of country" and "x in country" naming formats. In these categories the agreed usage is already "x of the United States".
For categories named "nationality x", a straw poll on this page has indicated a strong preference (44 out of 48 voters) for standardization of some sort on this issue. Approximately 2/3 of those supporting standardization indicated a preference for "American x" over "United States x" or "x of the United States" (31-12-2 with one voter voting for two options and one additional voter indicating a preference for some standard without indicating which), with the obvious exception of proper nouns (e.g. the U.S.Army does not call itself the American Army). Some users suggested there may have been a systemic bias in this poll, although there is no specific evidence of such bias.
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