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 ==""Ethnic backgrounds""== 
 What it comes down to with these is that half of the time, they are either 1. Wrong, because the user got them from a bad source, 2. Simply based on last names, like probably half of the people named ""O ' "" something in the Irish-American category. Then after Wikipedia has this info, all the silly web sites out there copy it, and then after I delete it from the Wikipedia article as unsourced, someone adds one of those sites as a source! (And that's a great way of creating a ""source"") Oh, and don't get me started on when the article has a (correct/sourced) mention that someone is, say, ""of German, Irish, French, Dutch and Welsh ancestry"", and then some trigger happy user immediately adds every one of the 5 categories, in what can only be called a gross misinterpretation of what the term ""X-American"" is and who it is applied to. For all the reasons mentioned above, this issue has gone out of control on Wikipedia, and needs to be reigned in. I have nothing against mentioning ethnic background in the article, as long as it is properly sourced; nor do I have anything against putting a category in, as long as the source actually says the person in question is X-American, rather than their great-grandmother. That's really all I can say.  "