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Excluding some nationalities, while keeping others

@Rsk6400 Is there some ulterior reason you have for removing some ethnicities from the template? In this edit you reverted my addition of Anti-French sentiment, but I notice that you have been removing a lot more than that for a while now, including British, German and Russian, etc. and your removals and the ongoing fight you’re taking on seem to have been ongoing since 2021 (Australian and Austrian).

Is there some standard of “discrimination” that we should be using here that is defined differently to the one used by these articles? Articles which often begin with wording like “Anti-Scottish sentiment is disdain, discrimination, or hatred for…” (another ethnicity you regard as facing no consequence of discrimination). I assume that, in your opinion, historical discrimination is not something we should link to from here?

It’s possible there are better approaches though; the navbox is already exceedingly large, maybe we should simply split off the ethnic and nationalist discrimination section to another template? — HTGS (talk) 04:12, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

We need the article to be about discrimination, and that means reliable sources have to use the word "discrimination". Powerful nations were mostly able to prevent discrimination against their nationals, so it should not seem very strange that e.g. "Anti-German sentiment" seldom led to discrimination. Personally, I also think that we should not be too quick to call something "discrimination" that is not in some degree comparable to Racism against African Americans or Antisemitism. Rsk6400 (talk) 05:56, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There are multiple sources that describe discrimination and use the term "discrimination" in reference towards Germans[1][2][3], French[4][5][6][7], and Russians[8][9][10]. I don't see why African-Americans and Jews should be seen as the standard of discrimination; that's nothing more than an Anglo-American bias. Discrimination is discrimination. Alfedda (talk) 16:30, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

But these sources are not used in the articles. Rsk6400 (talk) 18:44, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Is there anyone else who agrees with Rsk6400 on this? — HTGS (talk) 09:12, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. This template should only include articles that contain some substantive content about discrimination. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 10:46, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Do you believe that Anti-German sentiment (for example) contains some substantive content about discrimination? — HTGS (talk) 23:12, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

According to our article, discrimination is Discrimination is the process of making unfair or prejudicial distinctions between people based on the groups, classes, or other categories to which they belong or are perceived to belong, such as race, gender, age, religion, physical attractiveness or sexual orientation.. Where do you find that in the article ? Rsk6400 (talk) 06:52, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I’m not sure what your point is. Are you saying that being German is not covered by that definition? Do you think nationality is not a group, class or other category? If I take your question at face value, I don’t have to go further than the first paragraph of the body to get: Anglo-Americans in the Pennsylvania Colony viewed the Palatines with suspicion and often derided their language, customs, and religious practices. This certainly counts as “making unfair or prejudicial distinctions between people …”. — HTGS (talk) 10:43, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@HTGS: Please stop edit warring and take a look at WP:ONUS. I don't think that's "substantive content". And where is the source calling that "discrimination" ? Rsk6400 (talk) 06:58, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Edit warring is a bit of a misrepresentation, @Rsk6400. I suggested a valid reason to include an article, and nobody had any rebuttal. I’m glad you’re willing to discuss though.

On the actual inclusion criteria, do you want to abandon the definition you gave above, and only include articles with sources that use the word discrimination explicitly? I think we can possibly work with that, but I don’t want to have to keep running around the field chasing after you and your goalposts. — HTGS (talk) 02:14, 8 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think our guideline on WP:OR is clear enough. And I also think that common sense says that a substantial part of an article linked here should be about discrimination. And, sorry to say, I'm not interested in an endless discussion. Rsk6400 (talk) 06:24, 8 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to drop the topic that’s fine, but you don’t get to walk away and also enforce your own preferred version of the template. I’m not looking to drag this out either, but you are somehow resisting the invitation to give a clear answer on how you include articles. Is it by the definition at Discrimination, or is it by sources using the exact word “discrimination”, or is it when a substantial part of the article is “about discrimination”? Of course it can’t be the last one alone, because that would require us to refer to either of the first options.

The standard inclusion criteria for this sort of list would be to include all articles that discuss the topic, even if by subjective evaluation they don’t seem equal between pages in the level of discrimination they describe. This would mean that for these pages, they are all titled “Anti-X sentiment” and all use the word ‘discrimination’ in their lead, and would all be included; the going presumption with this model would be that readers can evaluate for themselves whether the “discrimination” against Germans (e.g.) is actually real or meets their subjective standards. We don’t have to do that though. When that sort of measure is not preferred, we can come up with another inclusion criteria, but such criteria is usually neutral to interpretation, and does not usually say “we include the article when Rsk6400 says we should.”

If you’d rather not discuss further, are you interested in writing up an RfC with me, so we can settle the matter properly?

Or maybe there’s some other factor you haven’t been able to verbalize yet, like maybe you don’t like that discrimination against Germans in that article is historical, and not contemporary? I’m willing to discuss that as a limiting factor if that’s what’s getting you. — HTGS (talk) 07:25, 8 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Feel free to start an RfC, if specifically about anti-German sentiment, it would be best to start it at that talk page. Rsk6400 (talk) 11:40, 8 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Why does "Discrimination against Israelis" link to anti-Zionism?

If we're going by technical definition, Israeli is a nationality while Zionism is a political belief. One could argue that Israeli isn't a nationality as per Ornan v. Ministry of the Interior but even if that were the case, discrimination against any person living in Israel would still not necessarily be anti-Zionism. AmrAlWatan^{(🗣️|📝)} 17:51, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It seems no one discussed it yet. The Ethnic/National section of {{Discrimination}} is highly policed by editors, I don't know how that passed. Web-julio (talk) 19:49, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wait I just realized that Anti-israeli redirects to Anti-zionism. And for whatever reason, Anti-Israeli (with a capital I) links to a disambig page? A page talking about anti-Israeli sentiment doesn't even exist.

Holy hell! AmrAlWatan^{(🗣️|📝)} 02:27, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

“Anti-israeli redirects to Anti-zionism.” Corrected now. — HTGS (talk) 02:55, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

And just because something is well-policed doesn’t mean it is policed well… — HTGS (talk) 02:58, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

First of all, thanks for the redirect edit above.

Second, I agree with this statement. What do you suggest we do? AmrAlWatan^{(🗣️|📝)} 03:47, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's a bit confusing that the link actually is at Template:Discrimination and only transcluded here. The template is used in the footer of Anti-Zionism, so the article should remain linked from here (unless somebody wants to start a possibly endless discussion at Talk:Anti-Zionism). But I agree that it is confusing, so I moved it to "Jewish". But I'm not sure if that's a really good solution. If anybody has a better (or less bad) idea, feel free to fix. Rsk6400 (talk) 06:42, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your edit!

There's a more pressing matter at hand, in my opinion: Back in 2010, 46% of Israeli Jews identified as "Jewish" before "Israeli", and I doubt that an Arab living in Israel would identify as "Israeli" (although I could be wrong). Do we need an article about anti-Israeli sentiment? Does "Israeli" even exist? Also, where do I make this topic more... known? I'm a little new to this Wikipedia stuff so I'd like to get some more opinions, especially from actual Israelis. AmrAlWatan^{(🗣️|📝)} 20:19, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

German Wikipedia had an article on anti-Israelism, but it got redirected. I noticed the articles New antisemitism and Three Ds of antisemitism talk about it, so some of their content can be reused. I couldn't find an existing article in another Wikipedia, such as Hebrew Wikipedia. Web-julio (talk) 00:45, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think Wikipedia beat us to the punch. The Israelis article does not mention anything about it being a unique identity, only that it describes "citizens and nationals of the State of Israel". I'll take this to WP:VP and see what they think. AmrAlWatan^{(🗣️|📝)} 04:41, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Anti-Zionism

I think Anti-Zionism should be replaced by New Antisemitism in the template, maybe like Antisemitism (New), with New linking to the article. Kowal2701 (talk) 19:11, 5 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Looking at the template, it's kind of weird how they set it up. Why is it "Jewish / Antisemitism" and not just "Jewish"?

Here's what I think we should do: Replace "Jewish / Antisemitism (Anti-Zionism)" in the template with "Jewish (Antisemitism * New)". Then, we add Anti-Zionism to the "Manifestations" section. AmrAlWatan(🗣️|📝) 04:03, 6 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think that's a good solution. @Arctic Circle System: I just undid your revisions for several reasons: (1) You changed the links to Antisemitism without taking this discussion into account. Since Jews are AFAIK the only group where the "anti-X" term (antisemitism) is etymologically totally unrelated, we should have both term (i.e. "Jewish" and "Antisemitism" in the link texts). (2) Don't know why Anti-Mormonism should be under "National". (3) We don't link categories here. (4) Don't think we should have each and every naming controversy here. Rsk6400 (talk) 15:31, 6 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah I like this solution as well Kowal2701 (talk) 15:33, 6 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'll make the switch now. Thanks, you two :) AmrAlWatan(🗣️|📝) 15:40, 6 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like RSK6400 already made the edit. Thanks! AmrAlWatan(🗣️|📝) 15:43, 6 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Need to change something Annoyingcomerade (talk) 20:44, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not done You haven't specified the changes you wish to make. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 20:47, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]