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And/or in short description

While MOS:ANDOR is a good general rule, there are times when or is not entirely clear (and the MOS article notes such exceptions exist). The existing wording seems like it could be misread as People who are neither heterosexual nor cisgender rather than People who are either not heterosexual or are not cisgender (or are neither). It could also be misread as People who are not heterosexual, or people who are cisgender, since it lacks parallelism on the other side of the or. The simplest and least confusing version to me would be People who are not heterosexual or not cisgender. Would this be too fussy? Lewisguile (talk) 09:37, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

People who are not heterosexual or not cisgender makes sense to me, and is similar to the wording the lead sentence has settled on after considerable discussion over the years.--Trystan (talk) 03:34, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'll change it for now, then. As you say, it also reflects the first sentence of the lede. Lewisguile (talk) 08:57, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"Criticism" renamed to "Reactions"; why?

@Lewisguile Why did you rename this headline? "Reactions" is too vague and less representative of what is acutally written in this paragraph in my opinion. Maybe "Backlash" would be more descriptive than "Criticism", but "Reactions" is much too tame of a word for this section. https://wiki.riteme.site/w/index.php?title=Queer&diff=1256528656&oldid=1256474841 JapanYoshi [Talk] 05:20, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with the renaming, for reasons set out in WP:Criticism. "Reactions" is more neutral, and allows for inclusion of more sources like Gamson that examine and analyze implications, rather than pre-limiting the discussion to the type of reaction that fits into the bucket of "Criticism".--Trystan (talk) 05:53, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

What Trystan said. It's generally a bad idea to have a "Criticisms" section. We shouldn't silo all negative response to one area and all the positive stuff elsewhere; it's better to have a more nuanced representation of how people have responded to a topic. Lewisguile (talk) 19:00, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]