Talk:Americana

Examples list

I have deleted the examples list, because it did not have a single sourced entry, everything was someone's opinion that an item qualified as Americana, and the list of examples had become an indiscriminate list (most of the examples were added by anonymous IPs). I started over with a new list, and will only be adding sourced examples. Anything placed on this list that is not sourced to a reliable source that explicity says it is an example of Americana will be deleted. Mmyers1976 (talk) 14:42, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

Well done. As you can see from the talk above this is an ongoing issue - in fact I'm inclined to think that having an examples list is just asking for all and sundry to chip in. Here's hoping you will be inspired to flesh out the article with some useful stuff. ProfDEH (talk) 09:07, 6 September 2015 (UTC)

Americana

What is happening with the rest of AMERICAN people ? For example canadian, argentinian, mexican and so on.... We should add references to this topic "americana" as bad topic and chauvinist topic for EEUU people. A criticism paragraph should be added explaining why AMERICA is not only EEUU and what all americans think about "americana culture" and EEUU appropiation of all cultures of the continent. BokY (talk) 21:34, 9 December 2024 (UTC)

This is the English wikipedia. In English America is synonymous with the United States of America. 2001:8003:2300:3401:302F:2A4A:F7DB:1575 (talk) 21:15, 23 January 2025 (UTC)

Requested move 29 April 2026

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Jeffrey34555 (talk) 17:00, 6 May 2026 (UTC)

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• Americana (culture) → Americana
• Americana → Americana (disambiguation)

– The form of culture is primary by longterm significance, despite the album matching it in pageviews and the film exceeding it. It is the genesis of the word Americana and what the musical genre's name is based on. Overall, it is simply more important from a historical perspective than any of the other potential primary topics. The most popular page is not always the primary topic, see apple for example. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 21:38, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

• support clearly it's the topic that the term is derived from—blindlynx 19:30, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

• Support per nom. Has the significance. 1isall (talk | contribs) 23:07, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

  Quick note: the culture has 63.07% of the traffic according to WikiNav, but that's irrelevant to the long-term significance. 1isall (talk | contribs) 15:56, 6 May 2026 (UTC)

Support per long-term significance. The other subjects are very clearly named after this subject, and that itself (the fact that so many notable subjects are named after this subject) is a pretty strong indicator that this has the major long-term significance needed to be PTOPIC. Also, just like apple, this really feels like a common sense one. I think the vast majority of people would feel that it is obvious that the primary meaning of "Americana" is the cultural concept in the same way that it seems totally obvious that "apple" primarily refers to the fruit. ⹃Maltazarian ^{ᚾparley$\lor$investigateᛅ} 07:07, 6 May 2026 (UTC)

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