User talk:Medwiki01234567

This user is a student editor in UCSF_School_of_Medicine/UCSF_SOM_Inquiry_In_Action--_Wikipedia_Editing_(Fall_2021) .

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Hello, Medwiki01234567, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian and I work with Wiki Education; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:14, 1 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Question

Many other students in your class have made edits related to so-called "inclusive language", meaning referring to e.g. "person with a uterus" rather than "woman". Was your class told to do this by someone in particular? Who was it? Why are so many students doing that? When you reply, please let me know here.

If you were told to do that, then they were incorrect. Per WP:V and WP:NOR, Wikipedia's text must stick to the terminology found in the reliable medical sources. These terms are very rare in the medical literature. Consensus of the Wikipedia community as arrived at here is against such wordings.

Please let me know why this class has been doing that. Thank you. Crossroads ^-talk- 04:14, 20 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]