Category talk:Serbs

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Ambiguous title?

Why is [Category:Serbs] marked with notification: "This category is not in use because it has an ambiguous title"? How can the term "Serbs" be labeled as ambiguous"? It is a well known ethnonym with only one meaning: it designates an ethnic group - Serbs. There are no disambiguation pages for the article Serbs. Since page Serbs is so obviously not ambiguous, how can we label [Category:Serbs] as "ambiguous"? When and where was this issue discussed? Sorabino (talk) 23:34, 9 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Sorabino: This was last discussed at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2010 March 10#People by ethnicity - Fooians to Fooian people. There is potential ambiguity between Serbs (the ethnonym) and Serbians (the national demonym). While the two terms are distinct in principle, they are often used interchangeably in practice. -- Black Falcon ^(talk) 17:48, 13 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Here on English Wikipedia, as well as in English language, the term Serbs is not ambiguous, since it has only one principal meaning, that designates ethnic Serbs. Therefore, the present claim, that category title (Category:Serbs) is somehow "ambiguous", has no bases. In fact, it is the term Serbian that is recognized as ambiguous, here on English Wikipedia, and it is therefore properly used for disambiguation purposes. Sorabino (talk) 12:53, 20 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]