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Edit a thon?

Hi everyone. I see edit-a-thons for a lot of topics around, usually in regards to female biographies. Is there one coming up for LGBTQ+ pages? If not, would it be possible to create an edit a thon for LGBTQ+ pages? Amethystloucks (talk) 16:35, 14 October 2024 (UTC)

We have WP:Wiki Loves Pride, which is an ongoing yearly campaign to improve LGBTQ+ articles.

Pinging @Another Believer who spearheads that one to see if maybe we can have an edit-a-thon under that banner as you proposed :) Raladic (talk) 16:39, 14 October 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the information! Amethystloucks (talk) 16:06, 21 October 2024 (UTC)

Improvement Request for LGBTQ+ media

Hello all,

LGBTQ+ media could use some love, particularly with globalizing the article's focus. It could also use some a description of the historical change in media representation and the effects of that. Many of the sources (Google Books) are also all f'd up and could deffo use replacing. I'm certain that there are other issues as well.

Add a little or a lot; anything helps, especially because small edits can provide jumping-off points for other improvements.

Thanks all!

Happy to see what everyone does!

JuxtaposedJacob (talk) | :) | 04:06, 25 October 2024 (UTC)

Request for dispute resolution in Eleno de Céspedes

There is a dispute between User:Nikkimaria and myself in the article about historical character Eleno de Céspedes, specifically whether a certain original drawing of Eleno uploaded by an user can be used the illustrate the article or not. I argue the drawing fits Wikipedia's policies on original images as readable here, while Nikkimaria argues it does not. I therefore request users to visit the talk page and opine. Thank you in advance. Baal Nautes (talk) 15:15, 25 October 2024 (UTC)

I don't understand the dispute but wow. This article is bad in places. Lot's of speculative wording on uncited claims. It needs a pass from someone on this board and I'll probably give it a crack myself.Antisymmetricnoise (talk) 21:43, 6 November 2024 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Reel Affirmations

Reel Affirmations has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 21:11, 25 October 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Heterosexual relationships among LGBTQ people#Requested move 26 October 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Heterosexual relationships among LGBTQ people#Requested move 26 October 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Web-julio (talk) 06:52, 26 October 2024 (UTC)

Reliable sources noticeboard discussion

There is a discussion at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard#GLAAD & anti-LGBT groups that may be of interest to this group. -- Nat Gertler (talk) 14:46, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

Improvement request for 21st century anti-trans movement in the United Kingdom

Hi! I’m making an article on the anti trans movement in the UK, in a similar vein as 2020s anti-LGBTQ movement in the United States. Any help would be appreciated! Snokalok (talk) 19:29, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

Oh, I forgot to restate the title. 21st century anti-trans movement in the United Kingdom Snokalok (talk) 19:31, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

You seem to have copied some text from elsewhere on Wikipedia, resulting in errors due to refs with nonexistent names. Please, at minimum, repair attribution. Flounder fillet (talk) 23:50, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

I've fixed the refs and added WP:RIA dummy note for attribution. Raladic (talk) 01:12, 31 October 2024 (UTC)

Improvement for Intersex healthcare advocacy

A few months ago I made the intersex healthcare article and added a to-do list for things to improve on the talk page. While I've worked on some of it, I was wondering if someone could help flesh out the advocacy section more. Thanks! Urchincrawler (talk) 00:45, 2 November 2024 (UTC)

Sissy Bar

I have nominated Sissy Bar (Portland, Oregon) for Good article status, if any project members are interested in reviewing. Thanks! ---Another Believer _(Talk) 17:32, 2 November 2024 (UTC)

Discussion on Talk:List of fictional pansexual characters

There is presently a discussion here as to whether an image, released by an official account, showing characters wearing clothes "resembling the pansexual pride flag" is enough to say that said characters are pansexual. Your comments in this discussion would be greatly appreciated. Historyday01 (talk) 16:45, 8 November 2024 (UTC)

World AIDS Day editathon

Join Wikimedia LGBT+ and Dr Emily Garside to help improve Wikipedia’s coverage of AIDS cultural history in your language. 30 Nov 2024, English and Spanish, On Zoom. More details on Meta soon! —  OwenBlacker (he/him; Talk) 15:17, 9 November 2024 (UTC)

We need new images for LGBTQ sexuality.

There is an image for transgender-inclusive sex: File:Wiki-trans-cis lesbian sex.png. But there are no such image for transman sexuality. We need illustrations of penile-vaginal sex and other sex including trans people.

We require illustrations of opposite-gender same-genitalia sexual activities or same-gender heterogenital sexual activities immediately. Illustrations which describe same-gender same genitalia sexual activities of trans people will be eventually required. Sharouser (talk) 16:21, 13 November 2024 (UTC)

Seedfeeder has been inactive for over a decade now, so we will not have any new "Wikipedia style sex illustrations", well, at least certainly not "immediately". Flounder fillet (talk) 19:00, 13 November 2024 (UTC)

The linked image isn't currently used on English Wikipedia. Is there an article or project where an image like this is desired, let alone required immediately? –RoxySaunders 🏳️‍⚧️ (talk • stalk) 23:08, 13 November 2024 (UTC)

It's not at all obvious to me that it's a particularly useful image for illustrating trans lesbian sex anyway – it could just as easily be read as cis-het sex. Indeed, of the three uses across the entire Wikimedia ecosystem, the one on en.wikiquote is accompanying a quote about heterosexual sex. Caeciliusinhorto (talk) 23:21, 13 November 2024 (UTC)

Agree; I can't imagine an enWP context where these would be explanatory, and several where it would be degrading. Transgender sexuality could use images, but not much is elucidated by literal depictions of transgender people having sex. Many already associate trans bodies primarily with fetish pornography, and conjuring mental images of our genitals is perhaps the one thing they have very little trouble with... –RoxySaunders 🏳️‍⚧️ (talk • stalk) 00:03, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Joseph McCarthy

Joseph McCarthy has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 02:14, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Films about intersex#Requested move 14 November 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Films about intersex#Requested move 14 November 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Web-julio (talk) 20:52, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Trans#Requested_move 15 November 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Trans#Requested_move 15 November 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Raladic (talk) 23:36, 15 November 2024 (UTC)

Category:Anti-transgender activists

I've translated from Russian Wikipedia Category:Anti-LGBTQ activists (well there was a similar but more specific category here though). There's Category:Anti-same-sex-marriage activists but none for anti-trans rights activists yet. Recently, Category:Feminism and transgender topics was renamed and purged. However, not every biography that were directly there was technically "anti-trans" (such as Buck Angel) I guess. Another possibility is to create Category:Gender-critical feminists based on gender-critical feminism mainspace article. I also created c:cat:Gender-critical people because some of them aren't feminists, but I'm not sure if that would be allowed on English Wikipedia. Though many would fall under wp:OPINIONCAT, some would qualify as defining. Also what title would be the best? The sentence from Category:Organizations that oppose transgender rights could be used ("... that oppose transgender rights"), but that sounds like a WP:BLP issue. Web-julio (talk) 02:03, 16 November 2024 (UTC)

Fringe Theories Noticeboard Discussion

There is a discussion at WP:FTN#Stephen B. Levine relevant to the wikiproject. Your Friendly Neighborhood Sociologist ⚧ Ⓐ (talk) 00:09, 17 November 2024 (UTC)

Trembling Before G-d under FA review

I have nominated Trembling Before G-d for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. George Ho (talk) 05:37, 17 November 2024 (UTC)

Pride flag and Rainbow flag (LGBTQ)

Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see any difference between the topics of Pride flag and Rainbow flag (LGBTQ). Before I start a WP:MERGE discussion, maybe someone can explain it to me. The first line of Rainbow flag even bolds Pride flag as a synonym. (Here's one data point to consider.) Feel free to start a merge discussion if you like; I'm likely to be tied up for a few days. Please ping me to it, if you do, otherwise I'll get around to it eventually, barring something really persuasive here. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 07:38, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

Pride flag is a parent article summarizing the 9 or so articles about pride flags, including Rainbow flag as well as other identity-specific pride flags like the Asexual flag, Transgender flag and Lesbian flags. We have enough to say about each of these individually that they qualify for their own articles. –RoxySaunders 🏳️‍⚧️ (talk • stalk) 11:32, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

Yup pretty much this. The Pride flag article is basically a WP:BROADCONCEPT-ish article about Pride flags and all the different Pride flags. Whereas the Rainbow flag one is specifically about the history of blue the rainbow flag.

i don’t think merging them is in the best interest of our readers as it would bloat and blur it.

Another reason for separating them is to not raise the importance of the rainbow flag over the pride flags of the other sub communities like trans, lesbian, ace, aro, intersex and so on, which all are also pride flags. Raladic (talk) 14:52, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia talk:Categorizing articles about people § Proposed update to CATLGBT

 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Categorizing articles about people § Proposed update to CATLGBT. Raladic (talk) 05:33, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:List of animated series with LGBT characters: 2020–present

Presently a discussion is going on, which may be of interest to this WikiProject, at Talk:List of animated series with LGBT characters: 2020–present#Splitting off 2020-2024 entries into new article when 2025 begins? about whether to split off the 2020-2024 entries of LGBTQ+ characters in January 2025 or to leave the article as is. Your contributions would be appreciated. Thanks! Historyday01 (talk) 22:22, 19 November 2024 (UTC)