User talk:Microflights

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■ ∃ Madeline ⇔ ∃ Part of me ; 09:48, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

Thank you, Maddy :-)

It’s been a long while since I’ve done any editing on Wikipedia, so please excuse my rustiness! Were there any issues with the edit I’d suggested on this page, please?

Best wishes,

James Microflights (talk) 11:10, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

Well, the consensus currently is that anti-transgender rights activist is the best description based on the sources that exist on her. If you think there are significant sources that are not cited, and that you think could sway the situation, feel free to post them on the talk page. ■ ∃ Madeline ⇔ ∃ Part of me ; 12:45, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

Thank you, Maddy. I certainly get that this is a "contentious topic", so it's therefore a tricky article to write or edit. Without getting into the rights or wrongs of assigning labels to the person who is the subject of the article ("anti-transgender rights activist" vs "women's rights activist"), I wondered how the editorial process is moderated. I have a couple of questions, please:

1. Do you know how the page came into being? A single author? Or group?

2. You say that "anti-transgender rights activist" is "the best description based on the sources that exist on her". Is that your own assessment, or that of an editorial moderating group? Or Wikipedia's managing group?

Best wishes,

James (26 March 2023) 2A00:23C8:1288:6901:71BE:A07D:546B:67B0 (talk) 13:12, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

1. The "View history" link near the top of the article takes you to a list of all previous revisions of that article, including the editor who made that revision. The "prev" link in each entry shows the changes relative to the previous revision.
2. There is no "managing" or "moderating" group that decides on article content. All content decisions are made by consensus of interested editors. This description is the result of repeated discussions on the talk page, the same place you posted your edit request. Older discussions are moved to archives, which are linked near the top of the talk page. ■ ∃ Madeline ⇔ ∃ Part of me ; 13:44, 26 March 2023 (UTC)