This category is within the scope of WikiProject Women, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of women on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.WomenWikipedia:WikiProject WomenTemplate:WikiProject WomenWikiProject Women articles
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This category describes a demographic characteristic of the Wikipedians who add themselves. It is not substantially different from other user categories that describe characteristics of other Wikipedian editors.
Collaborative use:This category is a resource for editors who are looking for other editors with this particular background, interest and/or point of view. It is not the same as membership in the LGBT WikiProject - that is a coordinated effort targeted at specific project goals. Not all LGBT-identifying editors will wish to participate in that project, and the project is open as well to non-LGBT users, or even users who do not support the LGBT community. This category is akin to Category:Jewish Wikipedians, Category:Christian Wikipedians, Category:American Wikipedians and many other similar user categories.
Prior deletion:There is no general consensus on the utility of user categories and userboxes. While many find self-descriptive elements to be useful both in identifying themselves and identifying other editors they may wish to work with on articles, opposition to certain traits described has, in the past, made some categories and boxes disruptive. The opposition to these descriptions, not the descriptions themselves, is what causes division and disruption. Inevitably, certain self-descriptions will remain extremely contentious, and, for that reason, may be blocked. An LGBT category is not and should not be considered disruptive.
Other stuff exists:This is not an WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS argument. Many other user-identifying categories not only exist but have the approval of the community - through deletion discussions and long-standing existence. If some categories are to meet with the explicit approval of the community, then all categories that are not disruptive in and of themselves should receive that same approval.
Future deletion discussions:This category should not be nominated for deletion by itself. It will be seen as an attack on the part of the community that supports it. If user categories and userboxes are to be nominated for deletion, they should either be clearly disruptive (i.e. of the extreme variety) or considered in the context of a comprehensive review of user-identification policy.
