User talk:ChadThomson

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Hi, thanks for your contributions. Instead of changing actor to actress, which is a redirect page, please consider using the disambig version by doing this  actress . This way it will show actress but go directly to the actor page. Thanks. &infin; Who ? &iquest; ? 20:06, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

ID straw poll link
This should interest you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Intelligent_design/Marshills_NPOV_objections#Strawpoll Trilemma 01:53, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Your comments in Cisgender
Chad, You are correct in the understanding that cisgender is used in a small community of the trans people. A more correct term for that is Neologism. The issue is that some people believe that because of the people that despise and hate the trans people, that if they can change the way that people use language, that they will remove the bias and (presumed) negative connotations of trans. Calling someone cis-man is then presumed to be negative and possibly and insult to the ' normal ' person (normal being an insult to the trans, implying that they are not normal and less than human.) The conversations that you see and do not understand may be because of infighting that is common among this community. 1) The anger is because they are trying to get it used so that the non-transgendered people are not considered as not normal - see AlexR's comments under that users contributes for some understanding of the presumed reasons why it is the ' proper ' word to use. 2) non-transgendered is a common term, but the understanding is that if you use the word non that you are lessening the other person. As crazy as it sounds, that is the gist of the reason given. Your analogy to your groups is good, but the use of the word non-cisgendered is incorrect as cis and trans are opposites. You might more accurately say night and day to represent cisgendered and transgendered. If everyone knew the word for night and said non-night, they would be talking about day. But since there is no word for day, it is considered to be negative (and for vampires that would be the case). So someone creates a word for non-night and calls it day and the argument is that the people that do not use the word day should use it… Does seem kind of silly, but to have a term that is opposite to the first is useful in describing the groups. The bottom line is that they are overly sensitive because they have an agenda. The great thing about Wikipedia is that agendas are not allowed, and all you have to do is question the authority of their statement and they have to provide evidence, or the article ends up with statements on the top of them that "The factual accuracy of this article is disputed". Then they have to provide evidence, or risk a wiki court that might ban them, and with wiki your name and what you write is important. Re-read the article and comments if you want, but mostly it to give a definition and some history of why the word was created. Truth is it is a word that is not used by many people except in a very small community and if you asked 10,000 people, you might get one to give you a guess that might be close to the correct. Take care. 74.134.147.102

Portal:Kazakhstan
Hello, I thought you would be interested in helping finish create and maintain the Kazakhstan Portal. --Boguslavmandzyuk 08:38, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

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Autosecret listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Autosecret. Since you had some involvement with the Autosecret redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. BDD (talk) 21:03, 9 October 2016 (UTC)