Category talk:Countries and territories by official language

This category was nominated for renaming on 10 January 2018. The result of the discussion was no consensus.

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WikiProject Countries to-do list:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests : Check out the article alerts; see if anything catches your fancy.
Cleanup : clean-up listing for Countries
Stubs : de-stub articles in Category:Stubs by region.
Other : add {{WPCountries}} to talk pages of related articles, and assess.

Languages

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Criteria[edit]

What inclusion criteria does this category maintain? Does a given language need to be

the or an official language of the given country or territory?
the dominant language amongst the population of the given country or territory?
the language of a significant minority of the population of the given country or territory? If so, how significant (which may well lead to the adoption of an arbitrary percentage that cannot stand the test of WP:OR)?

Case in point: I think Category:Berber-speaking countries and territories (which currently has "Algeria", "Libya", and "Tunisia" in it) will fail criteria #1 and #2, except that Standard Algerian Berber is an official language in Algeria. As for criterion #3, I don't think we should even go there, because I expect endless WP:OR. (On the other hand, "Morocco" should probably be added per criterion #1 because of Standard Moroccan Amazigh). Cheers, Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 18:52, 4 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]