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Note: I'm not logging on to wikipedia much lately (for why, see below - got bored trying to battle the white conservative male POV endemic on wikipedia which is commonly referred to as NPOV) so if you have an urgent question, it's probably better to ask someone else.
A Scot editing an American encyclopedia. How weird is that?
Wikipedia is an American encyclopedia with some pages added/edited by non-US editors.
Memo to self: Non-US editors editing an American encyclopedia must learn to accept with good or bad grace that their material is added on the sufferance of Americans. If an entry is considered not-notable by Americans, it will be removed: if an account contradicts American "truisms" it will be edited until, from a US point-of-view, it is "neutral", however Americanised the result. In short: I need to learn not to keep bashing my head against a stone wall, and accept that Wikipedia is chiefly an American resource, and no non-US editor is going to be able to change that: we can only hope to introduce some internationally-useful pages while the Americans aren't looking.
See also: Why I Quit Wikipedia, and The Great Failure of Wikipedia, both of which I'm finding quite illuminating.
[edit] Pages I created
[edit] People I edited
[edit] Pages I edited
- Homophobia, but it was frozen by wiki admins with the homophobic version intact, so I guess we lost that one. I think this is part of the US-majority rules again - in the US at present, homophobia is considered so normal that to define it correctly isn't permissable in an American encyclopedia.
[edit] Categories I work/worked on
Lesbian gay bisexual or transgender people
- and other categories under it, such as:
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- LGBT people from the United Kingdom
- LGBT ordained or vowed people of faith
- LGBT royalty
[edit] About me
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