User:CircleGirl/Equality and Diversity on Wikipedia

Equality and diversity on Wikipedia are very important. Ocassionally. Well actually, not really.

Never misunderstand any of the 100+ policies. Or confuse them with essays. Or make any other kind of misunderstanding.

Women editors
9 out of 10 Wikipedians are male. Nobody can figure out any possible reason why that might be.

Dealing with mysogyny on Wikipedia
If you ever experience mysogynistic attitudes, man up and grow a pair. Don't come crying to anyone else over it. Wikipedia is a busy place. Other editors are just too busy to care about this kind of thing.

Non-white editors
If it didn't happen in an English-speaking country, it's not important.

Disabled editors
Always remember that competence is required and Wikipedia is not therapy.

Your disability should never impact on your editing. Ever. You can never say things like "I'm sorry. I have Autism and I didn't reallise you were being sarcastic". Or "I have Bipolar and I was having a manic episode when I made those edits. It's under control now and I'm sorry if I've caused any inconvenience. I will revert those edits". Even if someone with a disability is an excellent editor most of the time, disability-related editing issues are simply unforgivable. For example, if you mispell something because you have Dyslexia, somebody might read the article and think that that was the correct spelling. Just think about the irrevocable damage to the body of human knowledge that this would cause! Such a thing would be terrible and cannot be allowed to happen.

You might be thinking "anyone can edit Wikipedia. If I make a mistake, someone else will fix it." The truth is Wikipedia doesn't work like that.

It might seem a bit harsh to be so hard on disabled people. After all, the disabled have it hard. But do you know what really tough? Being non-disabled. Nobody ever thinks about how all those poor non-disabled people have to put up with fixing small typos, grammatical errors or misinterpretations of sources. So if you have a disability that could in any way, shape or form impact on your ability to edit Wikipedia, it's probably for the best that you don't edit Wikipedia.

Editors with mental illnesses
If you have a mental illness, After all Do try and overcome your lack of insight into your condition for the sake of everyone else on Wikipedia. It's just the polite thing to do. Instead of having psychotic episodes that make you beleive you're being stalked by the government, try having good mental health instead.

Determining notability
If something relates to disability, non-white people, women, LGBT people or Africa, Asia or South America, it's probably not notable. Nominate it for deletion.

Occasionally, an article might be created by someone who is part of more than one oppressed group. For example, someone who is a womam and disabled or someone who is gay and black. Such articles seriously compromise the integrity of Wikipedia. Therefore, they should be speedily deleted.

Dealing with minority editors
Make as many snarky comments as possible until the editor can't take it anymore and leaves. Repeatedly put warnings on their talkpage as soon as they start editing so they understand that Wikipedia just isn't for people like them.