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| == Advice == | |||
| Hi Edgth, I wanted to give some friendly advice here. I realize you're a new user and we didn't start off on the right foot so to speak. Basically, here at Misplaced Pages, we welcome everyone to edit, as long as they're here to improve or maintain the encyclopedia. As long as you're making good-faith attempts to build the project, you'll be welcome. The problem comes when users approach Misplaced Pages with other motives, Wikipedians are generally hostile towards them. If it seems like someone is editing Misplaced Pages to promote something or make a point, they usually have a hard time with the community here. Of your 150 edits so far, about 90% of them seem to be devoted to changing gender-neutral language. While changing "humankind" to "mankind" isn't strictly forbidden, it isn't in-and-of-itself particularly helpful to the project. In general, going from page to page making the same argument about a minor is usually frowned upon here. You're welcome to have your own opinion of the matter, but that shouldn't be the only thing you do here. If you try to build the project in other ways instead of only working on the whole "mankind" thing, I think you'll find Wikipedians to be more receptive to you arguments. Let me know if you have any questions, ] (]) 03:13, 8 August 2013 (UTC) | |||
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Advice
Hi Edgth, I wanted to give some friendly advice here. I realize you're a new user and we didn't start off on the right foot so to speak. Basically, here at Misplaced Pages, we welcome everyone to edit, as long as they're here to improve or maintain the encyclopedia. As long as you're making good-faith attempts to build the project, you'll be welcome. The problem comes when users approach Misplaced Pages with other motives, Wikipedians are generally hostile towards them. If it seems like someone is editing Misplaced Pages to promote something or make a point, they usually have a hard time with the community here. Of your 150 edits so far, about 90% of them seem to be devoted to changing gender-neutral language. While changing "humankind" to "mankind" isn't strictly forbidden, it isn't in-and-of-itself particularly helpful to the project. In general, going from page to page making the same argument about a minor is usually frowned upon here. You're welcome to have your own opinion of the matter, but that shouldn't be the only thing you do here. If you try to build the project in other ways instead of only working on the whole "mankind" thing, I think you'll find Wikipedians to be more receptive to you arguments. Let me know if you have any questions, Mark Arsten (talk) 03:13, 8 August 2013 (UTC)