badgerbag: Wiki gnome task

badgerbag (

badgerbag) wrote,
@ 2009-08-31 02:41 pm UTC

Wiki gnome task

Here's a good task for anyone not afraid of a little Wikipedia editing.

A search on the phrase "confined to a wheelchair". Let's reduce that from 383 results to 0...

	no subject hobbitbabe 2009-09-02 03:11 am UTC (link)
	I went to do more "wheelchair-bound"/"wheelchair-using" and found that a couple of my edits from yesterday have been reverted with comments like "using common and accepted terminology" [Ghostbusters franchise], "unecessary change. wheelchair-bound is more formal and common" [Texas Chain Saw Massacre]. Is anyone else encountering this? (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 2 comments) (Show 2 comments)

zvi
2009-09-03 08:15 am UTC (link)

As far as I could tell from the Wikipedia policies, there is a desire to be less offensive rather than more, and more specific rather than more generalized when it comes to issues of identity, but there doesn't appear to be a preference for more common terminology. Basically, tell whoever reversed your edits to stuff it, and re-revert.

You may also want to make a Neutral POV argument.

	no subject kake 2009-09-03 02:32 pm UTC (link)
	Re the Texas Chain Saw Massacre, I've started a discussion on the talk page. I agree with zvi that "wheelchair-bound" is not a neutral point of view. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)