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Happy editing! Acroterion (talk) 02:48, 5 October 2023 (UTC)

October 2023

Hello. This is a message to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions did not appear to be constructive and have been reverted. Please take some time to familiarise yourself with our policies and guidelines. You can find information about these at our welcome page which also provides further information about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. If you only meant to make test edits, please use your sandbox for that. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you may leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. Acroterion (talk) 02:48, 5 October 2023 (UTC)

Specifically, conflating nationality with religion or ethnicity is strongly discouraged, because it is often abused to imply that someone is not a real citizen of a given nationality. Changing nationality to "Jewish" is expressly deprecated in accordance with MOS:ETHNICITY. Ethnicity or religion should not be mentioned in the lead sentence (or paragraph) except in very specific and unusual circumstances. Acroterion (talk) 02:50, 5 October 2023 (UTC)

Please stop doing that, slow-edit-warring against the manual of style is a problem. Acroterion (talk) 23:59, 22 October 2023 (UTC)

I would appreciate if discussion could take place before you revert my edits. When you did so the first time, I made a different edit that took your message into consideration, along with a detailed edit note.

According to the link you provided, "Ethnicity, religion, or sexuality should generally not be in the lead unless relevant to the subject's notability." As I explained in my edit note, the subject's ethnicity is highly relevant to her notability.

Anna Gmeyner was a Jewish refugee who was forced into exile by Hitler. She arrived in London as a refugee in 1935 and she is famous for writing Exilliteratur—exile literature, a literary category comprised of German-language writings by refugees from Nazi Germany, Nazi Austria, and other Nazi-occupied countries.

Gmeyner's most notable work is a 1938 novel about the rise of Nazism in Germany, which is based on her firsthand experience with Nazi persecution (or, to use her daughter's phrasing, "the Nazi menace"). The novel is called Manja, after the central Jewish character. As you can see from the date, it was written and published during the Holocaust.

In short: The subject of this article is a displaced Jewish writer who is famous for her Holocaust writings about the rise of Nazism.

In case it is relevant, I will also note that I never altered the infobox, which still lists the subject's nationality as Austrian. I changed the description in the leading sentence. Initially, I changed it from "exiled German and Austrian writer" to "exiled Jewish writer," given that she was exiled due to her Jewishness.

After I saw your message, I changed the description to "Austrian-born Jewish writer … exiled from Germany and Austria." This edit, which I would like to restore, is consistent with the leading sentence of Anne Frank's Wikipedia page. For comparison: Anne Frank is described as "a German-born Jewish girl who kept a diary in which she documented life in hiding under Nazi persecution." Cerulean Quill (talk) 01:35, 23 October 2023 (UTC)