User talk:Lavdad2

Stonewall riots
Please do not change the title of the article to Stonewall rebellion. Multiple reliable sources call this events the Stonewall riots, and indeed, rioting is thoroughly explained and cited within the article. If you have an issue with any of them, use the talk page of the article. --Moni3 (talk) 18:34, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

re·bel·lion  (rĭ-běl'yən) n.

1. Open, armed, and organized resistance to a constituted government. 2. An act or a show of defiance toward an authority or established convention.

The incident at the Stonewall Inn was a rebellion as per definition 2 above. It was called a riot by the very authorities that were being rebelled against, the excessively repressive New York Police department.

And I did not change the title. I changed the refernce in the first line of the article.


 * I'm not referring to moving the article, which would move it to Stonewall rebellion. The title of the article is the first line in bold. The definition per a dictionary is irrelevant, although the definition of riot applies quite well. The sources used for this article call it a riot. --Moni3 (talk) 18:51, 26 June 2009 (UTC)