Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-4139960-20130707225455/@comment-5918438-20181209041421

What you suggest, or rather what CzechOut first put forward, would not just be a matter of fixing. Quite a bit of research would have to go into creating an article about the German people/nationality.

And even with all that work done, I just don’t see how that information is best served with an article that tries to juggle both topics. I would end up covering the language and the people in separate sections, which would amount to the same thing as simply covering them separately.

As for naming the pages for languages, the original topic of this thread, I agree with user:NateBumber that the ability to pipeswitch outweighs the... well, whatever reason we went for English language in the first place. As I said in 2013, it's also simple application of T:DAB. And finally, I can be fairly sure that "French" is simply used more commonly in the DWU (to denote the language" than "the French language".