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Welcome!

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Hello, Antitransphobe, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:

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Invitation to WikiProject LGBTQ+ studies

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Thank you for your recent contributions to one of Wikipedia's LGBTQ articles! Please consider joining WikiProject LGBTQ+ studies, a group of editors that seeks to create, expand, improve, and maintain LGBTQ articles. If you would like to join us, please add your name to our members list. -- Maddy from Celeste (WAVEDASH) 12:09, 7 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Redirect or disambiguation page?

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Hi, I undid your conversion of Vaginism from a redirect to a disambiguation page. I can't find anything either in our article that was added to the disambiguation page, Gender-critical feminism, nor in searches in multiple sources (Google, proquest, and ebscohost). If I've missed something, feel free to discuss it here by pinging me. Since you're fairly new here, you may find Wikipedia:Disambiguation (which covers when to have a dab page and what sorts of articles to include) and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Disambiguation pages (which covers how those dab pages and entries on it should be formatted) interesting. Happy editing and hope to see you around more! Skynxnex (talk) 22:35, 10 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

@Skynxnex Hi @Skynxnex:, I have changed the page into a disambiguation page due to the usage of the word "vaginist" to refer to gender-critical feminists on social media. Since I'm new to editing Wikipedia, I am expected to make mistakes as I go along. Could you check with me so that I can learn more about what I should do or not? Antitransphobe (talk) 23:26, 10 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
Social media is a bit vague? Although searching X it seems to very occasionally used that way. I think for dabbing it it needs a bit more usage, particularly since it's not mentioned in Gender-critical feminism. Sometimes discussions about whether something should be a redirect or a disambiguation page takes place at WP: Redirects for discussion. Hope that makes some sense? Skynxnex (talk) 23:37, 10 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
@Skynxnex That's some food for thought. How relevant should something be in order to deserve being included in Wikipedia? I'm not sure whether the term being used on social media warrants making the edit like this one. Antitransphobe (talk) 00:03, 11 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
This is a tricky place where there's a lot of good faith disagreement about how common a (honestly negative?) term needs to be in order to be a redirect and/or on a disambiguation page. If you can find any usages outside of strictly social media or it gets much more common there, I'd say it's fair to disambiguate. And if it has general reliable source coverage, it might be due for the target article too. WP:RNEUTRAL has some related thoughts.
I was going to mention potentially adding it to wikt:vaginism but I see you already did :) Skynxnex (talk) 21:17, 11 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Trans Kids Deserve Better draft

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I hope you don't mind, but I just did some polishing up of Draft:Trans Kids Deserve Better -- some basic standard Wikipedia page things (bolding the title, adding an "official website" link, some readability things (breaking up run-on sentences), and a little WP:POV fix (we can't use the group's website to say that things are getting worse for trans youth, even if it's true; we have to put that as their perspective.) The biggest thing was I bulked it up, not so much to put more information, but to put more and particularly non-queer-specific sources. Not that there was anything wrong with your sources (Pink News is good; I'm not actually familiar with Them), but when trying to demonstrate notability and get something through AfC, it can help if the sources don't seem to be narrowly tailored.

Also, for future note: "notoriety" doesn't just mean "fame", it means specifically "bad fame". (A lot of folks trip over that, when they generally want "notability", which is not-specifically-bad fame) I've cleared out that word.

I hope you're okay with my changes. -- Nat Gertler (talk) 21:30, 13 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Jumping in here as well, I helped polish up the draft adding some formatting and expanded on some of the details with adding a few more sources to support the article and content.
I hope you like the additions. Raladic (talk) 23:00, 13 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
Honestly, you and @Your Friendly Neighborhood Sociologist have done a great job expanding the article. As a new editor, I appreciate your effort that I can learn from.
I dont' have much time to write new articles, but now I can rely on your edits so that I can learn on how I should expand the articles.
When the article should be submitted for review? I don't want to make a serious blunder for the first time, as I know that reviewing drafts often take a lot of time. Antitransphobe (talk) 11:14, 14 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
I think as it stands the article should be ready for review, so you can probably go ahead and submit it :) Raladic (talk) 14:57, 14 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
Thanks, I'll do it. One more thing, have you considered becoming a new page reviewer so that creating trans-related pages will go smoother? I don't have enough experience and so I'm not fit for the role, at least at this time. Antitransphobe (talk) 15:15, 14 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
I might consider it in the future :)
Currently I spend most of my time WP:WIKIGNOMEing by adopting articles for improvement, occasionally writing new articles and recently I've been pretty busy in the move of LGBTQ and related sub-topics.
In the meantime, if you plan to create more articles, you can always ask for feedback on the relevant forums as you already did with this one (which is how we found it), and also you can come join the WP:LGBTQ+ WikiProject where you can post on the talk page to attract other editors interested in the space.
Happy editing :) Raladic (talk) 15:38, 14 October 2024 (UTC)Reply