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The guidelines on gender identity are based on the BLP policies [1], which call for taking harm into account and not going into excess detail on someone's personal life.

Everything people are upset over in this thread is explained clearly in the BLP section on privacy, the gender identity section of the Manual of Style [2], and this essay on gender identity [3].

This particular example is completely clear-cut. Sources didn't cover them at all under any previous names because they're only known from one event. Someone who isn't transgender would be covered the exact same way. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a gossip rag.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_livin...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Biog...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Gender_identity

Comment · 9 months ago

According to MOS:GENDERID [1], a person's former name can be used when they were notable under that name. You're trying to make it out as if there's some nefarious double standard when there's not, editors just want Wikipedia to be clear and encyclopedic.

It's incredible that in a discussion about brutal violence against a child, the child victim is being painted as the "extremist"!

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Biog...

Comment · 9 months ago

Paying to create an article is a scam:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Scam_warning

Comment · 9 months ago

Can you list some specific examples? Do Wikipedia articles on these topics adhere to the facts, or do they take a political stance?

Comment · 9 months ago

Indeed, neutral point of view is one of the most important principles of Wikipedia [1]. I only recall phrasing like that being used used in very clear-cut cases, like the word "pseudoscience" in the article on homeopathy. If you don't think something is neutral, the guideline "be bold" [2] encourages you to edit it. You don't have to wait for somebody else to.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_vie... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Be_bold

Comment · 10 months ago

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