User talk:Aidshistorian

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Compton's Cafeteria riot
Hi, Aidshistorian, and thanks for your contribution. In this edit at Compton's Cafeteria riot, some of your changes looked okay, but portions of it were problematic, for verifiability and sourcing reasons, so unfortunately I had to undo the change.

For example, where you changed, "...police could use the presence of transgender people in a bar as a pretext..." to "...police could use the presence of anyone dressed in fewer than three items of gender-congruent clothing in a bar as a pretext..." it's a problem; because the original formulation was sourced by the Clare Sears (2008) reference, but the addition you made is not, so you'd have to find an additional reliable source to back that up. Note that I'm not questioning the truth of that proposition as I'm well aware of the history myself. But it needs to be backed up by reliable, secondary sources. You changed some instances of "transgender individuals" to "cross-dressing individuals", and others to "gender non-conforming people," and in one case to "Gender non-conforming people, cross-dressing people, transgender people, and drag queens;" this last case also had a reference (Stryker 2008) that does not support that wording. Finally, in one case you expanded "transphobia" to " transphobia and prejudice against gender non-conforming people," without any apparent reason (or citation), and since in my view they are pretty much synonymous, it just seems redundant.

When you make a significant change like this in several different parts of the article, it's better to do it in a series of several, small edits, rather than one big one, because if you there's a problem with just one portion of a big edit, someone may have little choice but to revert the whole thing, which is what I ended up having to do. Breaking it up into multiple edits that can be addressed individually, makes it more likely that you'll make progress towards your goal.

Please try your change again, but this time, in smaller edits, with a clear edit summary for each one. Don't forget to pay attention to whether the change you propose is verifiable by the citation given, and if not, please find a reliable source for your added material, and formulate a new footnote and add it. You may want to check out some of the links in the message in the section above, for assistance.

If you need help with any of this or have any questions, you can ask me below. Please add  to your message, so I will be notified of your question. Cheers, Mathglot (talk) 08:28, 1 February 2018 (UTC)