User talk:Maby51

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Again, welcome! Firefangledfeathers (talk) 03:49, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

Your edit summary

Hi Maby51, I wanted to bring up a concern I had about your edit summary in this edit at [Pansexuality]. If I'm understanding you correctly, you viewed the other editor's change as furthering a minority or fringe view. Even assuming that's true, comparing the other editors view to flat-earthers was, I think, uncivil, and I encourage you to do better in future disagreements. I hope you take this as friendly (although unsolicited) advice. Don't feel you need to respond, though I am happy to talk it through with you further if you'd like. Thanks, Firefangledfeathers (talk) 03:53, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

Sure! You are absolutely on the dot regarding my view of my fellow Wikipedian's changes. The comparison I made to the flat-earth theory is specifically mentioned in WP:NPOV. I therefore used it as a convenient and readily-citable example. The intention with the edit summary wasn't to imply that both the flat-earth theory and that editor's point of view had equal reverence in their respective communities (they clearly do not), rather only as a point of principle on both views. Specifically; according to WP:NPOV's section on Due Weight, Wikipedia should place majority-held views in more prominence than minority-held ones. I will recognize that that particular edit is of little consequence to the writing and general message of the article, and as such, don't really feel the need to take this matter any further than it's already been taken.

In this case, I'll defer to the more experienced editor and keep reading up on Wikipedia's policies. Thank you!

--Maby51 (talk) 06:36, 18 June 2021 (UTC)