Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-188432-20190324211646/@comment-28349479-20190328212154

Snivystorm wrote: What I'm talking about is the need to prevent political opinion from affecting how users edit articles in a way that favours one political opinion over another.

As I understand wikia, editors are meant to practise neutrality when editing here to avoid any political bias Chiming in to say that I absolutely agree with this sentiment, and I urge us all to continue making sure that no editorializing language is added to pages like Marxism or Donald Trump or Brexit; so far, we've done a great job of that, with statements like "Barack Obama condemned Donald Trump as an unsuitable candidate for president" (rather than "Donald Trump was an unsuitable candidate for president"!)

Admittedly, I'm not sure what that has to do with the recent changes to T:ACTOR, but regardless, political neutrality (like every other kind of tolerance) is an important ideal to keep in mind.

Replying more generally to the responses in this thread: I strongly second the need for overturning that old ruling about categories pertaining to LGBTQ characters. While our valid sources don't seem to have given us a citation for the general concept of the acronym LGBTQ, we do have ample evidence for heterosexuality and straightness; while we're waiting for precedent on that, should we follow Wikipedia's lead with, to cover LGB+AP at least?

Edit to add: Or does "in-universe precedent" even matter here? I don't think we have in-universe precedent for "Writers from the real world", after all!

For years and years people have been trotting out this LGBTQ categories debacle as a reason to shit on our community, so it would be really great to see that fixed as soon as possible.