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Intersex, Sex and/or Gender Diverse (ISGD)

Hi, been a while since I have posted here - wear-and-tear from wiki-homophobia, geographical relocation and intermittent internet access led to my having to take an extended Wiki-break.

I am raising a number of issues about this page, on the talk page Talk:Intersex,_Sex_and/or_Gender_Diverse_(ISGD) It conflicts on with a number of guidelines: WP:Manual_of_Style_(words_to_watch)#Neologisms_and_new_compounds - WP:Wikipedia_is_not_a_dictionary#Neologisms - WP:SPS - WP:Verifiability#Reliable sources - WP:SOAP. It needs to be moved towards deletion, but as I have a COI I feel I am not in a position to instigate this, so request some more experienced eyes on this please. It is not registered as part of this project, but the content clearly falls within the domain of this and/or sexuality projects.

Thanks.

MSM blood donor controversy in the United Kingdom

Any help at MSM blood donor controversy in the United Kingdom would be much appreciated. I've started an article but can't claim to be an expert on the topic Quickbeam44 (talk) 18:53, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

I've posted at the talk page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AdamCaputo (talk • contribs) 17:11, 11 September 2011 (UTC)

I've put some content in, It doesn't have to go much bigger to be a reasonable candidate for a DYK... anyone want to add more stuff in the next couple of days? AdamCaputo (talk) 20:32, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

Slightly less ambitious - can someone familiar with the project give us a importance/completeness rating? AdamCaputo (talk) 12:04, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

March on Washington 1993 article looks weird to me

I'm probably posting this in the wrong place, but I'm not quite sure where to post to get the LGBT community's attention. I looked up the Wiki entry on the March on Washington (in which I and a huge group from Haverford / Bryn Mawr participated :) ) and was confused to find an entire news article copied, verbatim, onto the end of the Wiki entry. At first I thought someone had hacked the entry to post their personal agenda. A closer reading showed the article is actually pro-LGBT, but it still looks weird to me: shouldn't there be a link to that news article, rather than a complete copy of it? It's longer than the entire Wiki article covering the march itself.

Grammar Geek (talk) 20:51, 13 September 2011 (UTC)sepdet

That's for posting this, I've taken the dumpertrucked 1993 article out as per Wikipedia:COPYOTHERS#Using_copyrighted_work_from_others for a start AdamCaputo (talk) 22:39, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

Ex-gay movement

Included in the article Ex-gay movement is a list of individuals that consider themselves ex-gay and/or part of the ex-gay movement. Many of those included are of no or minimal notability, with extremely little or no coverage in reliable secondary sources. There is currently a heated debate about whether mention of these individuals should be deleted or retained. See [[1]]. I've started an RfC on the article talk page [[2]], and your input would be highly appreciated. Thank you. Dominus Vobisdu (talk) 08:39, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

The RfC is located here. --Noleander (talk) 18:45, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

Tom Kahn nominated as a WP:Good article

Tom Kahn was a democracy activist, first with the Socialist Party of America, then in the civil rights movement (with Bayard Rustin and Rachelle Horowitz), and the AFL–CIO International Affairs Department (where he worked to support Solidarity (Polish trade union).

The article Tom Kahn has been nominated as a WP:Good article. Writing a review is a chance to earn good karma!

:)

 Kiefer.Wolfowitz 19:34, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

I've been looking to try a GA review for a while, if you don't mind being my first, I'm happy for you to be my first AdamCaputo (talk) 20:58, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

FAR

I have nominated Dog Day Afternoon for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets 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" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 20:05, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

Red Link Recovery Live

Howdy. For a while now, the Red Link Recovery Project has been using a tool (named Red Link Recovery Live) to find and correct unnecessarily red links in Wikipedia articles. For example, for the red link Müllerian-inhibiting factor on the article Intersex it might suggest that the link be changed to Müllerian inhibiting factor.

The tool currently has around 3000 suggestions for corrections to red links on articles relevant to this project (those in Category:LGBT_articles_by_quality). Each time you visit this link, you'll be shown two or three of these suggested fixes. I'll be delighted if anyone with a few minutes to spare would care to do so and help improve the quality of this project's articles. -TB (talk) 18:16, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

The tool works well. Kind of addictive. Bmclaughlin9 (talk) 19:58, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

More documentaries on LGBT parenting and adoption

[3] Homo Baby Boom Award-winning documentary from Catalonia (Spain) showing six families with gay dads or lesbian moms. 2008

Queer Spawn Queer Spawn Focused on the stories of several teenagers with gay dads or lesbian moms in the US. 2005 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.23.253.82 (talk) 13:18, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

Possible merger of articles dealing with recognition of same-sex unions in each US state

This has been discussed on this talk page before (here and here), but I'm unclear on whether a decision one way or the other was made.

I propose that, as a general rule, there be one article for each jurisdiction (such as a US state) titled recognition of same-sex unions in X, where all information on domestic partnership, civil unions, and marriage in that jurisdiction can be found.

For many jurisdictions, especially US states, this information is divided into separate articles. For example, we have the following articles for Oregon:

• domestic partnership in Oregon (Stub-Class)
• same-sex marriage in Oregon (Start-Class)

Same thing for Maine:

• domestic partnership in Maine (Start-Class)
• same-sex marriage in Maine (B-Class)

Regardless of whether you're talking about domestic partnership, civil unions, or marriage, the question is the same: How are unions between same-sex couples legally recognized in [insert jurisdiction here]? Any information on this question could be divided into separate articles based on whether or not you're talking about marriage. And perhaps there are certain cases where that should be done. But in general, I don't think that helps the reader. On the contrary, someone who wants to read about recognition of same-sex unions in Oregon has to know, before they can start looking, the following things:

1. Whether marriage equality has been enacted there.
2. If there's no marriage equality, whether a separate institution exists for same-sex couples.
3. If it does exist, what that separate institution is called.

The LGBT community doesn't push for domestic partnership or civil unions as end goals in themselves, but rather as part of a larger movement towards equal marriage rights. The big question that's always asked is whether same-sex couples should be able to marry; any separate institution is usually an afterthought mentioned only as a compromise. Everything does, however, boil down to one topic: legal recognition of same-sex unions.

Therefore, I think the topics domestic partnership in X and same-sex marriage in X should be addressed under the article recognition of same-sex unions in X more often than not.

Thoughts? — Athelwulf ^[T]/_[C] 19:56, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

Sounds reasonable to me. But not entirely sure if you're proposing a general policy or if we just start working thought the list? AdamCaputo (talk) 07:07, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

I agree as well, though the argument is best made on the basis of the better way to cover the subject matter and help searchers, not based on what the advocates of same-sex unions have pushed for. I'd be happy to join in the reorg work. Bmclaughlin9 (talk) 17:50, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

I'm taking a kind of wikibreak while I wait for a GA reviewer, but assuming this has a resonable consensus, then just post on my talk and I'll pop back up to help AdamCaputo (talk) 17:58, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the input. If there's a consensus for it, then I suppose I am proposing it as a general policy, allowing for the possibility that in certain cases, it may be appropriate to keep the original distinction. — Athelwulf ^[T]/_[C] 13:27, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

So where are we with this? AdamCaputo (talk) 10:51, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

Gay icon

Do we have inclusion criteria for this page? We should develop some. This good for Betty White? CTJF83 22:29, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

WP:Wikipedia Loves Libraries and Tom of Finland Foundation in LA

Hi folks, thought you might be interested in helping out this live wiki-editathon on LGBT content, especially if you are around the LA area: Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Loves Libraries#Los Angeles: Echo Park.--Pharos (talk) 18:07, 12 October 2011 (UTC)