Wikipedia talk:Avoid weasel words

Objection

I object very much to this page move and merge. The talk page history did not give enough clues to people who chose to watch this page (which needs watching because some people do not understand it) that there was an RFC merge in progress. With all respect titles like "Rock the Vote" give a certain indication of the personality of the poster and are not likely to conceal proper proposals. If the community wants to merge this into a couple of lines on another page I can live with that but I move that we leave it a little while with a clear edit summary here pointing it out. --BozMo talk 19:47, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

If this page is of particular interest to someone, it is their responsibility to look at it from time to time. There are not so many posts to this Talk page that keeping up to date should pose any problem. A pointed reference to a !Vote in a section header is a strong indication that something significant is going on. As are the addition and presence of templates atop both the Talk page and the content page.

That said, while discussion revealed broad agreement about merging the involved pages, if there was any hesitation, it involved this one. I have no problem with postponing the redirect for a bit. Feel free to craft the edit summary as you see fit.—DCGeist (talk) 20:06, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

Ok, thats fair enough (aside from the particular interest comment which assumes quite a lot). Lets leave it for a few days and see if anyone turns up and thinks we should keep the page and otherwise merge it. If the merge happens at some point I might also make some proposals on expanding the paragraph. --BozMo talk 20:11, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

Wholesale replacement of weasel

Given that a consensus has been claimed (but is currently 50-50) for merging this page into "words to watch" I will try to facilitate the process by replacing the article as standing with the sentences it is being reduced to. This will give people the chance to see what if anything is missing. --BozMo talk 20:02, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

MoS naming style

There is currently an ongoing discussion about the future of this and others MoS naming style. Please consider the issues raised in the discussion and vote if you wish GnevinAWB (talk) 20:50, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

Mustelaphobia?

I'm not sure if this is the proper place to bring this up, but some have said that many weasels strongly object to the term "weasel words" as it presents their species in an unfavourable light based on false negative stereotypes and prejudice. There is a general Consensus among both the Mustelid Council of Europe (MCE) and North American Coalition for the Social Progress of Weasels, Ferrets and Ermines (NACSPWFE) that this term is outdated, inaccurate and unfair to weasels and their kin. Perhaps the authors' of Wikipedia's "Avoid Weasel Words" policy should seriously consider replacing "weasel words" with a more modern, less offensive descriptor that does not carry such blatant connotations of speciesism. 67.142.172.26 (talk) 01:02, 9 August 2010 (UTC)