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: One thing I want to make clear here: NOBODY is trying to reflect your nationality (even though you yourself in your profile almost obviously make clear that you are most certainly Dutch) by creating a category that is simply meant to unite those from the same country. Categories like '''Dutch hitchhikers''' and '''Hitchhikers in the Netherlands''' (or '''Hitchikers from the Netherlands''') are two (three) very different things. Actually, if you ask me personally about the nationality issue, I think it is a bit of a prejudice that people so radically hang on the ''"One world - one nation"'' idea (and state that they're ''"citizens of the world"'') - ok, I respect that, but it really becomes a disturbing thing with no real ground for such a fanatical impulsiveness for example here when only for the pure comfort of systematized users who might be curious (like me, for instance) who else is a hitch-hiker in the region they live in we try to create a category '''without a slightest intention to depict user's "sacred" nationality'''. Please, Robert, think about it. And say Augustas "Hi" from me. ;) --[[User:Sigurdas|Sigurdas]] 05:04, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
:: I 'escaped' from the Netherlands to remove the need of the Dutch to categorize everything into umpteen different boxes (aka [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillarisation verzuiling]). People are people, not screws you can put in a box. As for finding others close to me, why not create a map where people can indicate their location, similar to the maps with hitch-hiking spots, with the added advantage that you can see how close someone is; Kiruna-Stockholm is a somewhat bigger distance than Malmo-Kobenhavn... --[[User:Prino|Prino]] 11:42, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
::: Good idea! The problem is that this idea needs first to be developed and then to be somehow integrated in such a way that every user notices it. And the easy way of uniting current users we can do now already, through a simple category that IS ALREADY THERE, and does no obvious harm whatsoever (as explained below, emphasis on nationality is not smth anyone here seeks). Why make things complicated when they are so simple? --[[User:Sigurdas|Sigurdas]] 14:17, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
==Country categorization: how==
P.S. the message to the users can sound like this:
Hi! Your user page category has been changed to '''Category:Hitchhikers in (your country)''' because from now on this will be a standard categorization for hitchhikers on hitchwiki.org (see [[Category talk:Hitchhikers|this discussion here]] for the reasons of doing so). If for some reason you don't want to be categorized in this way, feel free just to revert it to a previously standard '''Category:Hitchhikers'''. We hope you don't mind.
Happy hitching,
To me, country of residence and language sound best. Region could be used additionally, but I think there are too many small regions in the world. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 13:11, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
: Perfect. Though I wouldn't touch languages for now since it is already a lot of mess with current categories (plus I din't get yet how to introduce this categorization) but the country of residence is obviously most suitable one.
: Proofreading of the draft text above is done. ;) --[[User:Sigurdas|Sigurdas]] 14:17, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
