Talk:List of adjectivals and demonyms for subcontinental regions

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The citation form is the singular form[edit]

Since in English the citation form for nouns is the singular form (if it exists), all the English demonyms should appear in that form rather than in the plural.

The text as it is now written seems to imply that listing the plural form makes it easy to state the rule for forming the singular form (= remove the final <s>), but the fact remains that in English the singular form is the citation form (the entry heads for nouns in English dictionaries, for example, are the singular forms and the plurals are the entries heads only for pluralia tantum -- nouns not occurring in the singular -- such as economics and physics)and it is just as easy to state the rule for forming the plural form (add <s>) as it is the way the article in Wiki is now set up (delete the <s>).

In summary, I see no justification for being exceptional by listing the plural form.

S. Valkemirer (talk) 09:48, 19 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Toponymic specificity, not geographical precision[edit]

Regarding this edit by user:Rodw, this is a list of names (“adjectival and demonyms”), and not of specific geographical regions that can be fixed by border markers or map polygons. The names have represented multiple concepts both simultaneously and changing over time, and continue to be used within various historical, geographical, and political contexts.

Rusʹ, for example, continued to be the native name of Red Ruthenia into the sixteenth century, and remains the native name of the homeland of the Rusyns today, and the changed link overly restricts its meaning.

Subcarpathia and Transcarpathia are also best linked to the disambiguation pages, because they are simultaneously used in an opposite manner, e.g., from the contexts of Ukraine and Hungary, across the Carpathians from each other (Ukraine’s Zakarpattia oblast, literally “Transcarpathia,” is in Subcarpathian Rus, podkarpatsʹka Rusʹ, literally “Subcarpathian Ruthenia,” as defined from the Austro-Hungarian view). —Michael Z. 17:03, 22 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Could you therefore fix the links eg Subcarpathia could be changed to [[Subcarpathia (disambiguation)|Subcarpathia]] per WP:INTDAB.— Rod ^talk 17:08, 22 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, will do. —Michael Z. 17:55, 22 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

sorry[edit]

Hello I crippled this article on accident I am trying to find out how to fix it sorry. Casper king (talk) 15:29, 28 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

fixed. Floquenbeam (talk) 15:35, 28 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]