Emily0r
April 2021
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Hi Emily0r! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia – it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information. Caius G. (talk) 13:52, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
Hi, thank you for contributing. You might want to visit the WikiProject, particularly to discuss the terminology changes you're making. I'm sure they're fine, but I'm not an expert and others might want to chip in (e.g., here). Best, Caius G. (talk) 14:11, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
Emily0r, you are invited to the Teahouse!
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Committed suicide
editI notice that all or almost all of your contributions at Wikipedia have involved changing the words "committed suicide" to something else, like "died by suicide".
Wikipedia operates by WP:CONSENSUS, and is not a place for someone to go on a campaign of righting great wrongs. Please stop what you are doing, until you have gained consensus for these changes. I will be undoing these changes when I get some time to do so, so please don't continue on this campaign until then. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 23:04, 14 April 2021 (UTC)
- Despite Mathglot's aggressive edits, you are indeed allowed to make bold edits without seeking consensus first. Others are allowed to undo them, and in the wake of that, folks should move forward by using discussion on the article Talk pages. (This is what we call the Bold/Revert/Discuss cycle.)
- There has been a recent site-wide discussion of use of the "commit" language in regards to suicide. You can find that discussion at this link. It did find that such language is acceptable on Wikipedia; it did not find that the language is required. The summary does mention that "A minority of editors think 'commit suicide' is archaic, and if some other equal or better formulation exists and a change is made, we should not tendentiously revert it." You may want to look to individual pages, particularly ones where the references sources we use don't use the "commit" language, and raise that point on the talk page.
- And in any case, welcome to Wikipedia! I hope that you contribute here for a long time to come. --Nat Gertler (talk) 23:55, 14 April 2021 (UTC)
- That being said, edits should be mindful, taking into account the particular article and it context, instead of roboticly searching and destroying any use of a phrase you don't like regardless of tone, use and context. In many of the instances of this mass edit, the context clearly called for an active verb such as "commit" and formulaicly altering it to a passive "died by suicide" resulted in awkward-sounding text.
- Being bold should not be read as a license not to be thoughtful in one's edits. Mass formulaic changes to multiple articles without discussion is beyond bold. TJRC (talk) 17:50, 17 April 2021 (UTC)
- "Died by suicide" is used in active contexts by the AP and most other RS since around 2019. Kolya Butternut (talk) 19:05, 17 April 2021 (UTC)
Welcome Emily0r!
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Welcome Emily0r!
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