User:Yonmei

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A Scot editing an American encyclopedia. How weird is that?

Wikipedia is an American encyclopedia with some pages added/edited by non-US editors.

Memo to self: Non-US editors editing an American encyclopedia must learn to accept with good or bad grace that their material is added on the sufferance of Americans. If an entry is considered not-notable by Americans, it will be removed: if an account contradicts American "truisms" it will be edited until, from a US point-of-view, it is "neutral", however Americanised the result. In short: I need to learn not to keep bashing my head against a stone wall, and accept that Wikipedia is chiefly an American resource, and no non-US editor is going to be able to change that: we can only hope to introduce some internationally-useful pages while the Americans aren't looking.

See also: Why I Quit Wikipedia, and The Great Failure of Wikipedia, both of which I'm finding quite illuminating.

Contents 1 Pages I created 2 People I edited 3 Pages I edited 4 Categories I work/worked on 5 About me

[edit] Pages I created

• Pride Scotia
• Pride in Aberdeen - Deleted. A bunch of Americans decided that a Pride festival in Scotland was not notable. After all, how dare we non-Americans think we can judge what is and is not notable in our own countries? Only Americans get to decide that, and Wikipedia is first and foremost, an American project.
• Remember When
• Glasgow LGBT Centre
• Edinburgh LGBT Centre
• Our Story Scotland
• Gay Police Association
• National Black Police Association

[edit] People I edited

• Lowell Cauffiel
• Anjem Choudary
• Harlan Ellison
• Ellen Galford
• Gwendolyn Graham
• Terry Lloyd - Note: Americans want to make the US look less responsible, and wikipedia is an American encyclopedia, so no doubt they'll win their point.
• Edwin Morgan
• Kathleen Satchwell
• Bonnie Dundee
• Horse McDonald

[edit] Pages I edited

• Homophobia, but it was frozen by wiki admins with the homophobic version intact, so I guess we lost that one. I think this is part of the US-majority rules again - in the US at present, homophobia is considered so normal that to define it correctly isn't permissable in an American encyclopedia.

[edit] Categories I work/worked on

Lesbian gay bisexual or transgender people

and other categories under it, such as:

• LGBT people from the United Kingdom
• LGBT ordained or vowed people of faith
• LGBT royalty

[edit] About me