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This page needs to be protected from moronic and very overtly racist vandals. conman33 (. . .talk) 04:27, 18 April 2023 (UTC)
Exactly. Is there any way we can report these vandals? 223.178.83.28 (talk) 04:43, 18 April 2023 (UTC)
Yes, you can use WP:AIV to report individual vandals and WP:RPP to ask that a page be protected. However no admins were monitoring these pages and off-wiki methods were used to get administrator attention in this case. Snowmanonahoe (talk) 04:50, 18 April 2023 (UTC)
Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 18 April 2023
Change African American to Liberian American 2601:601:1982:A70:94B3:2EA1:B02D:BB7C (talk) 22:47, 18 April 2023 (UTC)
Ralph Yarl is LIBERIAN American. NOT African American. Please fix this as a liberian american.
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Not done: Liberia is in Africa, so he is even more literally an African American (culturally speaking, taking the term literally) than most African Americans. The term is used generally for Black Americans and is appropriate here as an introductory term. That his parents are from Liberia is already mentioned. Moreover, we don't unilaterally decide which term to use. We rely on reliable sources for that, and they are overwhelmingly describing Yarl in introductory paragraphs as Black or African American, not Liberian American. Moncrief (talk) 22:49, 18 April 2023 (UTC)
He's still African American, as that is meant to mean sub-saharan african ancestry. 45.134.110.18 (talk) 22:50, 18 April 2023 (UTC)
Not done: Liberia is in Africa, so he is even more literally an African American (culturally speaking, taking the term literally) than most African Americans. The term is used generally for Black Americans and is appropriate here as an introductory term. That his parents are from Liberia is already mentioned. Moreover, we don't unilaterally decide which term to use. We rely on reliable sources for that, and they are overwhelmingly describing Yarl in introductory paragraphs as Black or African American, not Liberian American. Moncrief (talk) 22:49, 18 April 2023 (UTC)