User talk:RachelSummers77

Girl Genius
Generally, I understand the rule of thumb is that we minimize the number of external links to the subject's own website(s): one to the subject, maybe one to the "parent company"; that's about it. We are not here to provide a directory of links and websites, not even official ones. (I've noticed that the more obscure the band, the more MySpace, Facebook, etc. websites they want as external links in their article.) -- Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  19:10, 7 March 2008 (UTC) (knew Phil back before Girl Genius when he would draw you a custom namebadge for $5; but I didn't have $5)
 * I'd say a link in the Othar section might not be bad; something like "the Foglios have even created a LiveJournal for his rantings" and put the URL in the footnote; or something of the sort. -- Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  05:09, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

- - - - - - - - - - Hi, Rachel - replied under your comment in my Talk; thanks! Corgi (talk) 07:20, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

AIV
Sorry for that, I've got to look at the clocks more carefully since we just went forward an hour in America for Daylight Savings Time. I'm also declining to block at this time because they are not currently vandalizing. If they do it again within 24 hours, pester me directly (not through AIV). -MBK004 11:12, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Gracias
Thanks for reverting the kind message the IP left on my page. AgnosticPreachersKid (talk) 07:11, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
 * You're welcome--was about to stick a warning on his talk page but you beat me to it. Rachel Summers (talk) 07:11, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

Happy Easter
Sadly, Former First Lady Nancy Reagan has been abducted by the Easter Bunny's evil cousins, Frank and Billy Ray. But don't let that stop you from having a great Easter! Cheers. The one and only > AgnosticPreachersKid (talk) 07:51, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Call for discussion
Meet me at Talk:Girl_Genius.

Come alone.

LGBT WikiProject Newsletter
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Hello, members and friends of WP:LGBT! I'm not one to be writing newsletters, but I miss our cruise director, Miss Julie, and our project is drifting along with a few leaking plugs in the bottom of the boat. Hey, it happens. Every group we join goes through changes. If Wikipedia weren't so interesting it wouldn't also be so frustrating sometimes. And vice versa. More than one Wikiproject has tumbleweeds blowing through it, but this is one that can't afford to let that happen. Even if you pop in to the talk page of the project, you can let us know you're still around.

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WP:LGBT's Role in HIV / AIDS articles
It wouldn't be a proper gay community without a li'l bit o' drama! That's right. If we aren't arguing about something, then we should be asking if we're still queer. Maybe that's for the best, since we know we're still kicking. Our most recent topic is how far the role of our project should go in dipping our toes into HIV/AIDS articles. The main AIDS article was delisted as a Featured Article last month, sadly. (Sending a swift kick to WP:Medicine.) A spirited discussion is available for your entertainment on the WP:LGBT talk page about just how much of HIV and AIDS should we take on. As ever, we'll take your opinions under advisement. We're going to have to, because it doesn't seem to have been settled.

Is Pride POV?
We have a pretty cool sidebar that identifies core LGBT articles. Its symbol is the iconic gay pride flag, much like other Wikiprojects have iconic symbols denoting the topic is a core subject in a series of articles. However, a question recently arose asking if the symbol itself is not neutral. Should a pride flag show up at the top of the article on Conversion therapy? How else would anyone know the article is about queer issues? Is there another symbol that is as widely recognized and that includes all our many splintered facets? At what point do we stop asking ourselves all these questions and just go have a mint julep on the verandah and stop caring?

Harvey Milk and Jim Jones
For the love of all that is holy, no Kool Aid jokes. However, an editor involved in pioneering San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk's article has included a section about the late supervisor's support of Jim Jones and the People's Temple. While it may be accurate, there is a Request for Comment regarding how much emphasis the section places on Milk's support in light of his overall political influence on the city, and indeed the rest of the United States. Milk's article is a sad one in more ways than one. It lacks the detail and heart that honors its subject. Anyone want to do a barter with me? I'll bring Harvey Milk to featured status (give me a month or two so I can read stuff), if you do something of equal value to WP:LGBT?? Make me an offer...

Queer Studies is offensive!
The established branch of study known as Queer studies was brought up as an category for deletion because an editor was offended by the use of "queer" in the title. It was overwhelmingly rejected mostly by the usernames I see here on our Wikiproject page. (A clue that I know you are out there, hiding...biding your time...) So, I wish I could congratulate you, but now I'm all confused by my sympathy for the editor who was offended. So, if you're reading this, Moni has a short memory and can't remember your username. Don't be put off by our demonstrative pushiness. Join us. We can always use involved editors.

Lambda Literary Awards
What can you do to help the project out? Be a wiki-fairy, on many levels. There are all kinds of articles that need help. Why, just this morning I removed those ugly wikify and cleanup tags from four articles at random. If you can put  around stuff, you can clean up articles. There's a list of articles that need attention at the top of the WP:LGBT talk page. Or you can start with the Lambda Literary Awards, where the goddess of my altar received a pioneering award, and was "reduced to rubble" by Katherine V. Forrest's wonderful speech. The 20th ceremony of the Lambda Literary Awards, which celebrates LGBT literature, took place in West Hollywood on May 29th. The page needs to be updated with the new winners, to be found on the official website.


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Yeshayahu Leibowitz, Arthur C. Clarke and Bernard Montgomery
Why on earth would someone want to delete material about homosexuality? 'Tis truly a mystery. But these embattled articles have some random evil gnomes removing information that places these folks under our queer umbrella. Help us keep an eye out for the deletions. Take a peek at the articles, familiarize yourselves with the info, and be handy with the undo function in the article history. If tempers flare, take it to the Hall monitors and let them sort it out. Best solution is to make sure your sources are immaculate.

This month's Wiki stars
This is what I get for opening my big fat mouth and suggesting the newsletter should be revived. Here I am writing it. So, to pat self on back (*cough*) Mulholland Dr. became a featured article in May. This is A Good Thing since it is my personal declaration that there is no such thing as lesbian porn. I don't care what Benjiboi says about the video collection at goodvibes. Instead, we have hot women who connect on a deep, personal, soul-touching level, so this film should qualify as some of the skankiest porn available for lesbians. Plus, it's completely confusing and surreal! D'you think Laura Harring would care that the article is featured? I don't think so either... (Call me, Laura!)

Compulsive hoarding of templates
Once I saw a harrowing episode of Animal Planet's Animal Cops where this guy had, like, 250 cats in his house and it freaked me right out. I'm drawing a parallel between 250 cats and, well...three, really, templates in articles involving LGBT issues. Can we stick to one, maybe? In the aforementioned Harvey Milk's article there's a core LGBT template, a link to the LGBT portal, and a sidebar for LGBT rights. Jiminy! You'd think we weren't the folk to set industrial grey carpeting and track lighting in vogue. An LGBT footer was designed to link to articles of interest that aren't the aforementioned core articles. What do you think, can we have either an LGBT template for core articles, a footer for LGBT articles that are high profile but not core, or an LGBT rights template? As ever, anything's up for discussion on the WP:LGBT talk page.

The Violet Quill and magazines
Zigzig20s suggests we create an article on The Violet Quill, as it seems such a milestone in the advancement of gay/queer literature. Members of the Quill all have pages of their own (Edmund White, Christopher Cox, Robert Ferro, Michael Grumley, Andrew Holleran, Felice Picano, and George Whitmore). We need to find more info on the Quill per se to reference the page that we create. Perhaps Google Books - and libraries? - can help.

A number of magazines also need articles, perhaps most notably QW, LGNY, and Lesbian Feminist Liberation.

Mom's nagging for Pride Month
It's June, Pride month. Wear sunscreen, stay hydrated, get a designated driver, then go half-dressed in the streets find a girlfriend or boyfriend, or some homo who's standing there looking lonely and kiss 'em up real good. Remember, it all started 39 years ago when a bunch of drag queens just got fed the f*ck up by the cops raiding the bar and dragging them all out to the pokey again. Rock on, queens! Enjoy your celebrations. My town's is in October, and 200 people attend. I miss Denver.

Fresh faces to brighten our pages
Hey, I've seen you around! Sorry there seem to be so many—it's been a while. But we welcome you all: Cheezisyum21, Taineyah, Dustihowe, Avesta69, RachelSummers77, Vivekgopinathan, AMK1211, Staffwaterboy, Ted Ted, Joe5150, Leahtwosaints, Robapalooza, Arthomure, Confusionball, Affinity likely, PrinceOfCanada, Yobmod, Npd2983, Neagley, Bvlax2005, Bvlax2005, Rhullsf, Textorus, Kieran.casey, Tyciol, Meojive, Sappho'd, Bookkeeperoftheoccult,  Gaywarrior, Aujourd'hui, maman est morte, and Balin42632003.

It looks like we've picked up a lot of talent lately. We have no doubt you'll be making your indelible mark on LGBT knowledge as we know it, here at Wikipedia.

- In the immortal words of Miss Julie, "May all your Wiki days be bright, and may your Love Boat never turn into a Poseidon."
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We miss you, Miss Julie, as well as all the others who have graced our project and are on wiki-breaks or just got fed up with all the nuttiness and went to live their lives. Get your stupid houses built and hurry up and come back. --Moni3 (talk) 16:52, 9 June 2008 (UTC) To stop receiving this newsletter, or to receive it in a different format, please let us know here. If you have any news or any announcements to be broadcast, do let Moni3 know.
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simon amstell
there seems to be a major misunderstanding on the simon amstell page. his sexual orientation and jewishness do not feature prominently in his stand up. his current touring show, which i have seen, is called 'no self'. he does not make any gay or jewish jokes. in fact the theme is the illusion of identity, that such labels are absurd. if he was also making jewish or gay jokes as is currently suggested, the actual show title and content would not make sense. to go by reviews is not an accurate enough source. reviewers always put artists in easily understandable boxes. surely we can attempt a better, more accurate understanding here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.129.130.172 (talk) 10:51, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

re Amstell page

 * But do you have any verifiable sources? Otherwise, what you are doing is "original research": Wikipedia is not the place to publish your own opinions, experiences, or arguments. Anyone can claim that the subject of a particular article does such-and-such or believes such-and-such, but these claims must be backed up and properly cited. Also, we've come up with quite a few sources that demonstrate that his religion and sexuality _do_ seem to figure into his work. Whereas, you're the only person claiming that his show is more about Buddhism than anything else, and have not come up with any sources to prove this (specifically, to prove that his show is about Buddhism but _not_ at all about his growing up Jewish or being gay). The burden of proof is upon you.
 * I have to ask--do you have a problem with his religion or sexuality even being mentioned? Because if that's the case, you should also be aware that Wikipedia is not the place for censorship. And Amstell is very open about himself and these things do come up in his work on Never Mind The Buzzcock and other places--his religion/sexuality may not be mentioned in each and every piece of work he does, but there is enough of a trend for the current article to be accurate. I'm changing the wording from "stand-up material" to "work" so that it's more general, though.
 * Finally--the page has a long history of people trying to remove any and all mentions of his religion and sexuality, particularly the latter. At first it was "oh, he _happens_ to be gay, but it's nothing to do with his career". Then we found sources proving otherwise, and rather than come up with something that directly challenges that, people just removed the cited information (another big no-no). If you wish to contest material, you must do so by the rules--otherwise, it looks like you're simply trying to remove content which you find objectionable because of your personal beliefs, not because it's factually untrue. And this is one of the best ways to get banned from editing Wikipedia. Rachel Summers (talk) 16:50, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

simon amstell
http://www.chortle.co.uk/comics/s/20/simon_amstell

this is a recent review of SA's stand is... his religion and sexuality are not featured prominently. citing an episode of buzzcocks where he and john barrowman make humour from their sexuality and one or two moments of 5 years of popworld shows does not justify 'prominently'

this type of sentence makes him sound like a gay jewish comedian like other more old fashioned comedians who base most of their act around their ethnicity/background/gender etc. in fact amstell's most recent stand up show was called 'no self' and was about a failed relationship and experiencing existential angst, as the above review shows.

i am not posting this because of personal opnions/beliefs... certainly not homophobia. i am gay myself. i just think the statement is entirely at odds with the person he actually is - someone who has been praised (as above review) for doing something far more thoughtful and intelligent than one note jokes about being part of a minority.

sorry if this was not clear before. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.129.130.172 (talk) 23:37, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

another review from the guardian - http://arts.guardian.co.uk/theatre/comedy/reviews/story/0,,2279983,00.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.129.130.172 (talk) 23:46, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

LGBT WikiProject Newsletter (July 2008)

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WikiProject LGBT studies Newsletter (June 2009)

 * Newsletter delivery by xenobot  17:40, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride!
 You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride!


 * What? Wiki Loves Pride, a campaign to document and photograph LGBT culture and history, including pride events
 * When? June 2015
 * How can you help?
 * 1.) Create or improve LGBT-related articles and showcase the results of your work here
 * 2.) Upload photographs or other media related to LGBT culture and history, including pride events, and add images to relevant Wikipedia articles; feel free to create a subpage with a gallery of your images (see examples from last year)
 * 3.) Contribute to an LGBT-related task force at another Wikimedia project (Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikivoyage, etc.)

Or, view or update the current list of Tasks. This campaign is supported by the Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group, an officially recognized affiliate of the Wikimedia Foundation. Visit the group's page at Meta-Wiki for more information, or follow Wikimedia LGBT+ on Facebook. Remember, Wiki Loves Pride is about creating and improving LGBT-related content at Wikimedia projects, and content should have a neutral point of view. One does not need to identify as LGBT or any other gender or sexual minority to participate. This campaign is about adding accurate, reliable information to Wikipedia, plain and simple, and all are welcome!

If you have any questions, please leave a message on the campaign's main talk page.

Thanks, and happy editing!

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Wiki Loves Pride 2016
As a participant of WikiProject LGBT studies, you are invited to participate in the third annual Wiki Loves Pride campaign, which runs through the month of June. The purpose of the campaign is to create and improve content related to LGBT culture and history. How can you help?
 * Create or improve LGBT-related Wikipedia pages and showcase the results of your work here
 * Document local LGBT culture and history by taking pictures at pride events and uploading your images to Wikimedia Commons
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Looking for topics? The Tasks page, which you are welcome to update, offers some ideas and wanted articles.

This campaign is supported by the Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group, an officially recognized affiliate of the Wikimedia Foundation. The group's mission is to develop LGBT-related content across all Wikimedia projects, in all languages. Visit the affiliate's page at Meta-Wiki for more information, or follow Wikimedia LGBT+ on Facebook. Remember, Wiki Loves Pride is about creating and improving LGBT-related content at Wikimedia projects, and content should have a neutral point of view. One does not need to identify as LGBT or any other gender or sexual minority to participate. This campaign is about adding accurate, reliable information to Wikipedia, plain and simple, and all are welcome! If you have any questions, please leave a message on the campaign's talk page.

Thanks, and happy editing! --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 21:36, 30 May 2016 (UTC)