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A Scot editing an American encyclopedia. How weird is that?
Wikipedia is an American encyclopedia with some pages added/edited by non-US editors.
Memo to self: Non-US editors editing an American encyclopedia must learn to accept with good or bad grace that their material is added on the sufferance of Americans. If an entry is considered not-notable by Americans, it will be removed: if an account contradicts American "truisms" it will be edited until, from a US point-of-view, it is "neutral", however Americanised the result. In short: I need to learn not to keep bashing my head against a stone wall, and accept that Wikipedia is chiefly an American resource, and no non-US editor is going to be able to change that: we can only hope to introduce some internationally-useful pages while the Americans aren't looking.
See also: Why I Quit Wikipedia, and The Great Failure of Wikipedia, both of which I'm finding quite illuminating.
[edit] Pages I created
[edit] People I edited
[edit] Pages I edited
- Homophobia, but it was frozen by wiki admins with the homophobic version intact, so I guess we lost that one. I think this is part of the US-majority rules again - in the US at present, homophobia is considered so normal that to define it correctly isn't permissable in an American encyclopedia.
[edit] Categories I work/worked on
Lesbian gay bisexual or transgender people
- and other categories under it, such as:
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- LGBT people from the United Kingdom
- LGBT ordained or vowed people of faith
- LGBT royalty
[edit] About me
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