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[edit] LGBT WikiProject Newsletter
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The LGBT studies WikiProject Newsletter!
Issue XIV - February 29, 2008
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- Article Milestones
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We have one new Featured Article this month - Emily Dickinson was recently promoted thanks to the hard work of Yllosubmarine! We also have 4 new GA-class articles: Ben Daniels, J. Michael Bailey, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Walt Whitman were promoted this month, but Dante's Cove was demoted.
- Wikinews
Things are happening over at Wikipedia sister project Wikinews. First, Nicholas Turnbull became the first openly-Trans reporter to gain (resounding) accreditation by the Wikinews community. Second, project member David Shankbone is going to Rio de Janeiro at the invitation of the Rio Convention & Visitor's Bureau. Wikinews:Portal:LGBT
- Lambda Book Report
Project member Moni3 has been working on the article for Barbara Gittings and noted that the Lambda Literary Foundation used the lead paragraph from Wikipedia, skillfully and lovingly written by Moni3, verbatim in the Lambda Literary Pioneers calendar. Moni3 contacted the Lambda Literary Foundation to let them know, and to ask if we could get a little write-up in the next Lambda Book Report. There is a preliminary text you can find here. Feel free to add to it. It should be no longer than 1,000 words, and it needs to be submitted by March 15.
- New members
Let's give a big LGBT welcome to all our new members: Dylankidwell (talk · contribs), Jay*Jay (talk · contribs), Ftmichael (talk · contribs), AgnosticPreachersKid (talk · contribs), Phyesalis (talk · contribs) , Tullerk (talk · contribs), Ravenwhitehorse (talk · contribs), TigressofIndia (talk · contribs), Yohan euan o4 (talk · contribs), Masculinity (talk · contribs), Renegade Replicant (talk · contribs), and Youngwebprogrammer (talk · contribs)!
- User categories
Place yourself in a user category so you can collaborate with other LGBT/Allied Wikipedians!
- St. Patrick's Day
In honor of Saint Patrick's Day, why don't you consider improving one of these articles: Homosexuality and Roman Catholicism, LGBT rights in the Republic of Ireland, Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform, Recognition of gay unions in Ireland, List of gay and lesbian resource centres in Ireland, or any of the articles in our to-do list?
- Women's History Month
March is Women's History Month in the United States. Help us celebrate by improving History of lesbianism or Lesbian American history! You could also find references for women in our giant list of LGB people to be sorted.
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Delivered by SatyrBot around 17:14, 3 March 2008 (UTC) SatyrBot (talk) 17:33, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] AfD nomination of Glenn Murphy, Jr.
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[edit] AfD nomination of Glenn Murphy, Jr.
An article that you have been involved in editing, Glenn Murphy, Jr., has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Glenn Murphy, Jr.. Thank you. MrPrada (talk) 07:18, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
I will add additional refs. but for your future knowledge, if you are going to post about deleting an article, you are supposed to do your own background research as well. So please don't base your opinion on one ref. and also, why should it be deleted? I don't claim a sexuality, and others don't either, so why should the article be deleted? Not everything has to fall into the western culture fashion of hetero,homo, and bi-sexual.
[edit] Conversion Therapy
First I want to thank you for your work on this article. You have done a wonderful job. I like your wording of not scientifically adequate. T think however you should note that the evidence of harm caused by conversion therapy is also not scientifically adequate, relying almost solely on anecdotal evidence. There hasn't been any rigorous studies detailing psychological harm across a broad spectrum of people having gone through conversion therapy to my knowledge.Nrswanson (talk) 19:31, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
