Boardergirl432

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Hello, Boardergirl432, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, your edit to Pacific Crest Trail does not conform to Wikipedia's Neutral Point of View policy (NPOV). Wikipedia articles should refer only to facts and interpretations that have been stated in print or on reputable websites or other forms of media.

There's a page about the NPOV policy that has tips on how to effectively write about disparate points of view without compromising the NPOV status of the article as a whole. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Again, welcome!  —hike395 (talk) 01:10, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

January 2018

Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Pacific Crest Trail, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. If you only meant to make a test edit, please use the sandbox for that. Thank you. —hike395 (talk) 08:29, 11 January 2018 (UTC)

(@Hike395:), This is my first "talk" so hopefully I am doing this correctly? I did not mean to just make a test edit, it was a real edit. I have removed the content again. If you would like further, detailed explanation as to why I removed the exact content I did that I would be more than happy to provide. I am sticking with the facts as provided by legitimate publications and authoritarians on the topic (not speculation and opinion from biased and unreliable sources) thus making the article even more neutral and accurate. When you reverted my changes, that clearly violated Wikipedia's Neutral Point of View policy (NPOV). Boardergirl432 (talk) 18:06, 11 January 2018 (UTC)boardergirl432

Let's discuss at Talk:Pacific Crest Trail#Removal of material about Ryback possibly hitchhiking. —hike395 (talk) 01:55, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

Please do not delete or edit legitimate talk page comments, as you did at Talk:Pacific Crest Trail. Such edits are disruptive, and may appear to other editors to be vandalism. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. —hike395 (talk) 02:05, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

(@Hike395:) obviously I didn’t mean to delete anyone else’s talk comments, I was trying to respond to someone’s comment on another talk, like I said I am new to the “talk”. I just want to respond but now my notifications are directing me to 2 new “talk” pages? Where am I supposed to give my response and reasoning? Boardergirl432 (talk) 04:50, 12 January 2018 (UTC)boardergirl432

The right place to discuss the content of Pacific Crest Trail is at Talk:Pacific Crest Trail. When I comment here, I'm trying to give generic feedback on your editing. —hike395 (talk) 05:43, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

Gender bias on Wikipedia

Boardergirl432, if you are female (as suggested by your username, you may find gender bias on Wikipedia informative. The underrepresentation of women among editors has been identified as a cause of the systemic bias of Wikipedia. In particular, the feeling that the contributions of women are more likely than those of male contributors to be deleted and the perception of the editing environment as unwelcoming to women were identified as contributing factors. That is a great pity. Wikipedia:WikiProject Women encourages articles about women and topics that more closely relate to women than men, but may provide some general support to female editors. Best wishes, Walter Siegmund (talk) 00:13, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

@Wsiegmund: Thank you so much, receiving this notification and reading your post brought tears to my eyes, I appreciate you reaching out so much, especially with the gender bias page, it made me feel not so alone (yes, I am a female). I am feeling really overwhelmed and ganged up on in the PCT talk page and it’s causing me a lot of anxiety. I am just trying to set the record straight, but am afraid to speak up at this point. I have so many references and articles to prove my point but with people threatening to have me banned and terminated over one wrong word is frustrating and feels like I am being silenced. Boardergirl432 (talk) 04:33, 13 January 2018 (UTC)boardergirl432

That's a horrible situation to be in! I'm sorry that your first editing dispute has gotten so anxiety-producing.

I've been around Wikipedia for almost 15 years now. In the large majority of cases, when editors disagree, they discuss and bring up data and references and the dispute settles down into a consensus. I welcome your references and articles. Please do present them at Talk:Pacific Crest Trail. —hike395 (talk) 06:02, 13 January 2018 (UTC)