Talk:Anti-Oriental riots (Vancouver)

Name change per normal usage

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Rename suggestion

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)

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)

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)