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Good edit, wrong reason[edit]

Hi, Raladic. Thanks for your edit at Feminism, which was an appropriate change which improved the article. But there was a problem. Your edit summary was:

Replace two noun uses of female with women since females as a noun is often dehumanizing and disparaging, refer to Female#Etymology and usage.

This gets the reasoning for this beneficial edit all wrong, and is not a sufficient justification to make the change that you did, for multiple reasons: it amounts to your original opinion, is backed only by reference to another Wikipedia article which is an unreliable source, and it sounds like some kind of private campaign. It was still the right move, but not for that reason, but for a different one: even though the source in question (Roberts (2017)) used both words, including the term females without any of the kind of dehumanizing tone that you claimed in your edit summary, the source also used the word women, and used it more often, and more to the point used women in the context of the dress standards being discussed in the part of the source which was being summarized at that point in the article.

So, the edit was an improvement, but for the wrong reason: the right reason is WP:STICKTOTHESOURCE, which is the part of our WP:No original research policy. Going forward, please base your changes exclusively on Wikipedia's policy and guidelines. And once again, thanks for your edit to Feminism. Mathglot (talk) 18:51, 10 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your note, I’ll keep it in mind to make sure my edit summary is accurate and in line with the policies as you called out. Raladic (talk) 20:34, 10 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]