Talk:Métis (Belgian Congo)

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On 25 March 2025, it was proposed that this article be moved to Métis (Congo). The result of the discussion was not moved.

Requested move 25 March 2025

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: not moved. – robertsky (talk) 07:23, 20 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Métis (Belgian Congo) → Métis (Congo) – (Requesting this move as article creator, seeking wider community input) I am unsure whether this should be moved to Métis (Congo), as I belive the term also refers to those born in the Congo Free State. Seeking wider community input as I'm not sure if another disambiguator may be more applicable in this case. GnocchiFan (talk) 17:49, 25 March 2025 (UTC) — Relisting. Reading Beans, Duke of Rivia 18:15, 1 April 2025 (UTC) — Relisting. TarnishedPath^talk 03:53, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The problem with having the disambiguating phrase be "Congo" is that multiple polities are commonly abbreviated as such, including during the time of the Belgian Congo and Congo Free State. Has Congolese Métis ever come up in the sources you looked at? Yue🌙 20:53, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose, I don't find the "not Belgian" point convincing re the Free State as it seems like a technicality lacking in substance, and readers aren't at all going to be WP:ASTONISHED to find this article covers both polities. Given they descend from Belgian settlers, it makes it more recognisable to have that in the title. Kowal2701 (talk) 17:41, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.