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Name change per normal usage

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There was more than one Vancouver race riot (the first was in 1885), and this one, the biggest, is known as "the Anti-Oriental Riots (of 1907)"; because Anti-Oriental Riots exists as a title, and covers other locations, I added the city-dab.Skookum1 (talk) 01:43, 5 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

And it turns out that Anti-Oriental Riots is a redirect to Asiatic Exclusion League which doesn't strike me as correct because not all anti-Oriental riots were "caused" by them; that redirect should perhaps become a dab page of all such riots.Skookum1 (talk) 01:45, 5 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Shouldn't the title have Anti Asian Riots of 1907 in it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.52.151.32 (talk) 22:48, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

No, it's got the correct and most-common title now; most common in terms of both older histories and newer (other than the American name for it that I recently changed to the Canadian form).Skookum1 (talk) 13:27, 8 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Though I do agree that "of 1907" should maybe be the title, but there were other Anti-Oriental riots in the US.Skookum1 (talk) 13:29, 8 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Rename suggestion

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I would propose renaming this article anti-Asian pogrom or something along those lines. A pogrom is a riot when a particular group is targeted, which fits in well with what happened in Vancouver in 1907. Riot is correct, but I think that pogrom may be a better term for what happened. --A.S. Brown (talk) 01:18, 20 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I've left this for a few years for discussion, and nobody has posted any objections. Just to be clear, is there any objections to moving this page to Vancouver anti-Asian pogrom? People can riot about anything-pogrom is the term that is normally used to describe a riot that targets a particular group or groups, which was definitely the case here. And in addition, the term pogrom usually suggests a degree of premeditation, which is also the case here as everything suggests that the Asiatic Exclusion League organised the attacks. Any objections before I move this article? --A.S. Brown (talk) 05:54, 7 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I can't find any sources that refer to this as a pogrom, everything I've read on the subject is talking about either the Vancouver anti-Asian riots, or in a few cases, the Vancouver Race Riot of 1907. SomerIsland (talk) 00:57, 16 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]