Wikipedia:When people complain rather than edit

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I have noticed there is a minor trend for people to complain nonconstructively and sometimes meanly on talk pages rather than make constructive edits!Hyacinth 22:23, 8 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Well, my honest opinion is that the main problem of the wiki community right now is that people edit too much rather than complain at the Discussion pages.Halibutt 20:29, 8 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Here's my case:

See:

  • Wikipedia:When people edit rather than discuss?
  • Wikipedia:When people cut rather than edit

On Talk:Lists of solo piano pieces, User:Arnowaschk comments: "why creating an empty minimalistic category if the contemporaray category only contains minimalistic pieces?"

User:Hyacinth listed User:Sam Spade on requests for comment: user conduct for removing the following text from Talk:Heterosexuality without editing and readding the text and without talking to Sam: "Terminology"

"Heterosexuality is referred to as being straight, although straight can also, though less often, mean anyone whose sexuality could be described as orthodox. For example, people who practice BDSM (bondage and discipline, domination and submission, and sadism and machochism) sometimes use the term to refer to anyone who does not (though the terms vanilla or vanilla sex are more common). The word is sometimes shortened to "hetero" or "het," (almost exclusively in the homosexual community) and can refer to both men and women, to sexual behaviour, to sexual orientation, and to sexual identity."

"Although the use of the term "straight" is used often to denote a heterosexual person, this term appears in early or mid 20th century gay slang as in, "to go straight", or stop being gay. One of the first coinage of this reference was in 1941 by the author, G. W. Henry. Henry's book concerned conversations with homosexual males and used this term in connection with the reference to ex-gays. Though not originally intended to refer to heterosexuals, it has evolved over time such that this is its primary usage. [3] Note also that a related meaning of drug addictions in which straight is "not intoxicated" (ie. sober)."

"An offensive slur for heterosexual is "breeder", which is used in the homosexual community. The term primarily originates from the fact that most heterosexual couples can "breed" or increase the population (while homosexual couples cannot). Although sometimes used playfully, it has a derogatory connotation. [4]"

People who edit:

  • Kudos to User:Tagishsimon, who commented "NPOVd - This is a *really* short stub :(" regarding Henry Darger, then conducted a, "subedit," adding, "more info on the man."

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