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Category:Social justice terminology

I notice that you have created the Category Social justice terminology, and added AFAB (Assigned female at birth), Assigned male at birth to the category. I've removed the last two from that category, as they are not supported by sources. Remember that categorization is not a matter of opinion, but depends on the definitions used in reliable sources, and the WP:CATDEF guideline. You also added articles like Heteronormativity, Internalized oppression, Lived experience, Safe space, Trigger warning, Straight ally, and perhaps others to that category, but I have not been able to verify them. Please be sure when you add a category to an article, that the category is a defining characteristic for that article. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 12:27, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

• http://sjwiki.org/wiki/Heteronormativity

• http://sjwiki.org/wiki/Trigger_warning
• http://sjwiki.org/wiki/Internalized_homophobia
• http://sjwiki.org/wiki/Glossary
• https://harpers.org/archive/2019/12/lefty-lingo/
• https://www.tacoma.uw.edu/sites/default/files/sections/Diversity/diversity_glossary.pdf.pdf --Ryubyss (talk) 13:38, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

Categorization at Wikipedia is somewhat complex, and is widely misunderstood and even misused. Many consider it a kind of "See also", or, "Here are some related, categories you might be interested in". Here's an example of how it is commonly misunderstood: what might be an interesting category for "Albert Einstein"? How about, category Cosmology, or General relativity, or Gravity? At first blush, these seem highly related and great choices for categories. And they are highly related topics for those reading the "Albert Einstein" article. But they are not appropriate for the Albert Einstein article, because none of these are defining characteristics of Albert Einstein.

I don't want to go into a long explanation here of what constitutes a defining characteristic, you can read about that at Wikipedia:Categorization. But as a kind of shorthand, you can think of defining characteristic as an "IS-A" test: if you can say that "Albert Einstein IS A 'quantum physicist'", then you can add category "Quantum physicists" to the article. And indeed, the article is in that category. But it is not in category "General relativity". Can you say, "Albert Einstein IS A 'General relativity'"? No; that implies that 'General relativity is not a defining characteristic, as a person cannot be a theory; therefore, this category is not appropriate for Albert Einstein. (If you look carefully, you will find one invalid category at that article, for exactly this reason.) Now, the IS-A test is an oversimplification of how categories work, so you'll have to read the guideline to get the full picture, but it's a starting point.

Now, back to the list of articles you posted above: the url or location where these articles appear, for example, in a social justice website glossary, might be indicative, but it doesn't necessarily meet the requirement of defining characteristic. For example, if such a glossary were to contain "white supremacism", or "neo-nazi", that does not mean that either of these terms, both of which antedate the concept of social justice by decades, "IS A" social justice term; that would have to be established by sources, not that contain the word, but that describe it in those terms. For example: if you find that reliable sources consistently describe or define white supremacism this way: "white supremacism is a social justice term that refers to blah blah...", then, you could add Category:Social justice terminology to the White supremacism article. If they don't, then you cannot. That is the defining characteristic test you should use, when deciding if an article belongs in a category or not. For Heteronormativity, the test is: do reliable sources consistently say, "Heteronormativity is a social justice term that refers...": if yes, you can add it to that category; if not, then you cannot. For the full story, see WP:CATEGORY. Hope this helps, Mathglot (talk) 20:40, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

all sorts of people say the word "fish", for example. if you find a person says, for example, "heteronormative" you can bet that person espouses Social Justice (a term which I like to capitalize) or says so to mock or critique SJ.

see?

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Heteronormativity

note: "Category: Social justice". 73.61.8.252 (talk) 21:02, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

(edit conflict) You may be right, or not; but the thing is, we cannot simply use our own opinions about what a term means, or how it should be categorized, in order to alter Wikipedia articles. We need to follow the guidelines here, and they are codified in Wikipedia policies and guidelines, of which Wikipedia:Categorization is one. The fact that you find a glossary, as you did above (sjwiki), that says: "The purpose of this glossary is to provide a core of very basic definitions of terms as used in social justice discourse, praxis, and theory" does not mean that reliable sources commonly and consistently define or describe the terms in that glossary as "social justice terms"; it only means that that website describes it that way. Furthermore, the sjwiki is invalid as a source at Wikipedia, because it is a wiki, that is to say, it is a self-published source. This makes sjwiki useless for supporting your case. You may be able to support it elsewhere but not that way. (The Harpers article is an opinion piece written with no claim of impartiality and is of doubtful quality for supporting your case.)

The internet is a big place, and if you are searching online using keywords for what you are trying to prove, you will find it (Saturn is the largest planet has eight million results), which is a type of confirmation bias. What you need to do, is to search for the term you are interested in, say, heteronormativity, in a neutral way: say, definition heteronormativity, or glossary heteronormativity, and then sample the reliable sources from that pool of results, and ask yourself, "do these reliable sources commonly and consistently describe this term as a social justice term?" If yes: add to category; if not, don't.

You're getting into the somewhat tricky field of Categorization, and if you do want to get involved here, then you need to follow the guidelines. One of those is sticking with reliable sources (i.e., sjwiki is out) and to follow the recommendations at the WP:Categorization guideline. You can't just do what "feels right", or "bet" what others are thinking when they use a term; we have to follow the guideline and demonstrate that the term belongs there.

My recommendation would be to hold off on doing categorization for now, until you've gained a better understanding of it. I am not an expert in categorization, but some editors are; I will add a notice to alert them to this discussion; they may be able to correct any mistakes on my part, or to add additional comments which will help you. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 22:03, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

Just noticed your comment during the edit conflict, where you added rationalwiki. Like sjwiki, this is completely invalid for supporting your case. You are not a newbie, and surely don't need to be reminded of Wikipedia's Verifiability policy, which completely discounts sources of this type. You can't even cite Wikipedia itself as a source for the same reason. Surely you are aware of this. So please, stick to the reliable sources; these wikis, opinion pieces, blogs, and other self-published sources count for nothing here. Mathglot (talk) 22:06, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

Ryubyss, I, too, don’t understand how someone who’s not a newbie can have the interaction we had on my talk page or at Villa Diodati. You should surely by now know how to post to a talk page. Looking at some of your edits, I think you need to pause and spend some time catching up on key Wikipedia policies before further editing. DeCausa (talk) 07:51, 7 February 2020 (UTC)

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