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Wikipedia's username policy

Welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your contributions. However, I noticed that your username (GrammarFascist) may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because it uses the string "fascist" which can upset other editors and is not conducive to maintaining a productive and collaborative editing environment. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may ask for a change of username, or you may simply create a new account to use for editing. Thank you. Daniel Case (talk) 02:49, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for dropping by, Daniel! I appreciate the welcome, and also your bringing your concern over my choice of username to me first. Personally I don't think anyone else would be offended, because the string "fascist" in the context of the username applies only to me (so I'm not insulting anyone else by calling them fascist) and I also think it's sufficiently obvious that my use of "fascist" is tongue-in-cheek (by analogy to the commonly-used term grammar Nazi -- which I avoided mainly out of concern that the term Nazi is so offensive!) and thus not likely to be misconstrued as an endorsement of literal fascism on my part. I am something of a notorious "grammar Nazi" among people who know me, and by far the majority of my anonymous contributions (see here and here for recent examples; my ISP doesn't provide static IP addresses so my address changes periodically) have been corrections of other editors' errors of grammar, spelling, punctuation, etc.

I recognize, however, that generally the opinion of a person who is offended takes precedence over the opinions of either the offending person or a third party whose opinions are that the language or action in question doesn't seem offensive to them. So, if anyone is genuinely offended by it, I will gladly change my username... and you're very much welcome to solicit comment / consensus. (I'd do that myself, but I'm really only shallowly familiar with features of the Wikipedia interface more involved than making fairly minor article edits; it would probably take me hours to figure out how to do it.) It certainly wasn't my intent to offend anyone... I'm somewhat more of a prescriptivist than a descriptivist, but I choose my battles (I still use whom, for example, but I'm aware that it's virtually extinct in contemporary usage and only correct instances of hypercorrection) and also try not to be a douche (meaning 2) about my nitpickery. Thanks again.

P.S. Do you know how to make a link to Wiktionary without doing it as a regular external link? GrammarFascist (talk) 14:56, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

I think you're fine, but you might want to explain the joke in an amusing way on your userpage (maybe including a link to urban dictionary?). Some jokes don't translate internationally, especially those that rely on slang. (For the record, I was entertained.)

To link to Wiktionary do this: [[wikt:Foo|Foo]] This produces Foo. There are also some templates that create other sorts of links, which you can read about here. Danger (talk) 17:53, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

Feeders

Hi, I just declined your redirect request for "Feeder (apiculture)". I'm not quite sure what you intended with that request. The redirect should not point to the disambiguation page because that will just leave the reader with a list of meanings of the term "feeder"; instead we should, if at all, redirect to the most relevant article. In our case, that's either feeder (beekeeping) or Langstroth hive, probably the former. But I doubt anybody would explicitly search for "feeder (apiculture)", making a redirect of that name rather useless. I believe the best way forward would be to mention feeder (beekeeping) on the disambiguation page and to change the link at Langstroth hive to point to "(beekeeping)" instead of "(apiculture)". Do you agree? Huon (talk) 13:00, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

Well, I feel silly now! It didn't even occur to me to check whether a Feeder (beekeeping) article existed, once I determined that no such article was linked to from either the disambig page or the Langstroth hive article. I've edited both those pages to point to the correct feeder article, so yes, I agree that there seems to be no need for an (apiculture) redirect — if there are any other apiculture-related pages which should point to Feeder (beekeeping) but don't yet, the corrected disambig page entry should get users looking for it there eventually. Thanks for pointing out my oversight so gently. —GrammarFascist (talk) 11:19, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

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MatthewVanitas (talk) 21:28, 24 June 2013 (UTC)