Pedroep

August 2024

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Affirmative action. Your edits appear to be disruptive and have been or will be reverted.

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Please ensure you are familiar with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, and please do not continue to make edits that appear disruptive. Continued disruptive editing may result in loss of editing privileges. Thank you. StephenMacky1 (talk) 22:40, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

In what way, calling things by their name are disruptive?

Affirmative action is merely a fancy name for what is, in fact, a form of discrimination, whether positive or not.

Every time I search Wikipedia for ‘positive discrimination’ the website redirects me to the ‘affirmative action’ page. Moreover, in the actual description, Wikipedia describes the following: “Affirmative action (also sometimes called reservations, alternative access, positive discrimination or positive action (…), as if they were merely different names for the same thing. However, from a legal point of view, ‘affirmative action’ and ‘positive action’ are different, i.e. "Positive discrimination must not be confused with positive action, the latter being one of the limited exceptions to the prohibition on discrimination. This is because positive action is not designed to, nor is likely to, discriminate against or negatively impact on others groups of people within the workplace." Source: https://www.davidsonmorris.com/positive-discrimination

I understand that the term 'affirmative action' is a way to avoid the negative connotations implied by the word ‘discrimination’, whether it be reverse or positive. However, I believe that its use should not be avoided merely to soften what is essentially a form of reverse discrimination.

I also do not want to argue about whatever fancy names people may wish to employ; rather, one effective means of resolving this dispute is to clarify the terms appropriately. Pedroep (talk) 00:56, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

I think you completely misunderstand what we do here: this is not a social media website where your opinion on a subject is relevant enough to put in the entry. Please see WP:NOTFORUM. Drmies (talk) 22:58, 27 September 2024 (UTC)

September 2024

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Rawan Osman has been reverted.
Your edit here to Rawan Osman was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (https://ytube.io/426u (redirects to www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iip9soswORg)) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. If the external link you inserted or changed was to a media file (e.g. music or video) on an external server, then note that linking to such files may be subject to Wikipedia's copyright policy, as well as other parts of our external links guideline. If the information you linked to is indeed in violation of copyright, then such information should not be linked to. Please consider using our upload facility to upload a suitable media file, or consider linking to the original.
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