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RE: Poison

Hi! I will ask you to assume good faith here: just because you don't like a source, doesn't mean it isn't valid. You're also assuming I'm "pushing transphobic statements into the article", when the source is merely quoting what is there. I'll also be quick to point out you're jumping to a conclusion and some original research as well: while IGN may very well be referring to Poison as a 'trap' in the derogatory sense...the article is about things that surprise the player or otherwise act as, quite literal, traps. Labeling it as such is assuming that was the intention, which while reasonable is still synthesis and the source should still very well stand. I get where you're coming from, but jumping to the conclusion that I'm forcing that into an article that I mostly wrote and pushed heavily to have on wikipedia does incite a bit of a kneejerk.

I'm not going to lie, it does come across as the slur. But it does still have a spot in the lead regarding reactions to it. I disagree that we should assume too that the statement are clear transphobia and probably more a case of ignorance yet still derogatory, which they rightfully are. I'm doing some small modifications to what you added to smooth out the tone, but we could use actual issue and page numbers from OPM if we're going to include that. As it stands the article on the whole needs a few updates anyway.

Have a nice day?--Kung Fu Man (talk) 07:51, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

Been watching this discussion and wanted to chime in briefly since I see that you used something similar to this defense in the past. Intentionally quoting uses of words that are *unambiguously* slurs without even so much as including the traditional 'sic' indication from the editor is not some act of unbiased presentation or a way to 'prevent censorship'. If a slur against a race of people were being used in the piece I suspect the tone of the discussion would be different; if people want read slurs they can click through to the source material. Omitting the slur from the quote does not in any way change the value of the quote unless the intent of quoting the source is to explicitly be offensive/misleading, illustrate something about the piece, or depict satire. None of those things are the case here. No matter what, the authors are still allowed to express their opinions in the source (as you have not altered it) so nobody is censoring them either. Maintaining the slur as a part of the article, or introducing additional slurs, adds no informational content. This is not a defensible case where the slur is a key element of the source being quoted either - as most of the accepted uses of racial slurs in WP articles appear to be.

P.S. what do you mean by 'quite literal' traps? And how does your definition differ from the definition of the slur? It doesn't seem like there's any difference between what you have described in your comment and the *actual definition* of the slur. In this context there is *no* non-derogatory sense for the word to be used because the literal definition of the word is what makes it a slur in this context. The user in question here does not appear to have jumped to any conclusions given that you appear to have held a position strongly in defense of using unnecessary slurs in WP articles for over two years (based on the other article's talk page).

173.167.119.46 (talk) 09:03, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

Hello, I do not think user talk pages are the appropriate place for this discussion. I think Talk:Poison (Final Fight) is the correct place for this discussion. I have quoted the above two posts on that page, and I have posted a response to Kung Fu Man's 07:51 comment there also. Awk (talk) 09:24, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

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