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'''Welcome!'''
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:Yeah, she told me. You left before she received my answer giving the ok. ^^;;; It's kinda unnerving, it's like I died or retired from Wikipedia or something. :P But well, people are being really nice, so I can't complain. Besides, I fully intend to be as pesky as always in the near future. xD Btw, I periodically try to entice people here to join the irc channel, perhaps this summer we'll be more successful! :D Cheers [[User:Raystorm|Raystorm]] <small>[[User talk:Raystorm|<font color="green">''(¿Sí?)''</font>]]</small> 16:45, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
:Yeah, she told me. You left before she received my answer giving the ok. ^^;;; It's kinda unnerving, it's like I died or retired from Wikipedia or something. :P But well, people are being really nice, so I can't complain. Besides, I fully intend to be as pesky as always in the near future. xD Btw, I periodically try to entice people here to join the irc channel, perhaps this summer we'll be more successful! :D Cheers [[User:Raystorm|Raystorm]] <small>[[User talk:Raystorm|<font color="green">''(¿Sí?)''</font>]]</small> 16:45, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
::Where are you? :/ Haven't seen you at the irc channel these past few days... Cheeers [[User:Raystorm|Raystorm]] <small>[[User talk:Raystorm|<font color="green">''(¿Sí?)''</font>]]</small> 14:34, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
::Where are you? :/ Haven't seen you at the irc channel these past few days... Cheeers [[User:Raystorm|Raystorm]] <small>[[User talk:Raystorm|<font color="green">''(¿Sí?)''</font>]]</small> 14:34, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

==[[WP:WikiProject LGBT studies|LGBT WikiProject]] Newsletter (July 2008)==
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'''The [[Wikipedia:WikiProject LGBT studies|LGBT studies WikiProject]] Newsletter!'''</big><br/> Issue XVI: [[July 23]], [[2008]] <br />
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Hello, members and friends of WP:LGBT! Updates about our latest happenings in the gayest corner of Wikipedia.

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;'''[[Homosexuality]] at [[WP:GAR|Good Article Review]]!'''
An unfortunate effect of a group less active than in the past is that our articles lose integrity. This one is at [[WP:GAR|Good Article Review]] for that reason. The [[Talk:Homosexuality|talk page]] is quite active as a result. You have the opportunity to help. This is the corest of our core articles, and it needs some attention because it gets a lot of controversial input from many sides. If you can spare any time to edit the article, please do what you can.

;'''[[Paragraph 175]] is at [[WP:FAR|Featured Article Review]]!'''
Soon after we were informed that Homosexuality is being scrutinized, we heard the same for one of our few Featured Articles. As a participant of the Featured Article process, I think this is actually a good thing. The standards for Featured Articles are getting higher with time. But as a member of this project, that means that a few of ours may be de-listed unless someone can swoop in and save them. This one has to do with the designation of homosexuality as a crime in Germany. Most of this article's sources are in German. If anyone has any particular skill in this area, please lend a hand!

;'''[[Gay bathhouse]] is at [[WP:GAR|Good Article Review]]! Wtf is going on?'''
I know you folks think I have much experience in a gay bathhouse, and I hate to disappoint you, but I actually do not. I seem like the sort of person who likes to stroll about in a towel. Shocking, no? It appears that [[User:Ashleyvh|Ashleyvh]] is single-handedly addressing all the problems with this article at its GA Review. While that's pretty impressive, it's also no doubt exhausting. Can anyone help out there?

;'''Two [[WP:GA|GA]]s and a nominee!'''
In what I hope will counter the jolt of re-evaluating three Good or Featured Articles, [[José Sarria]] and [[Janet Jackson as gay icon]] passed as Good Articles, and [[Black Cat Bar]] (famous San Francisco oft-raided gay bar) is nominated, all by [[User:Otto4711|Otto4711]]. Rock on, man. You're a machine. Good luck with your nominations. What is it about women that make them gay icons? And are there lesbian icons that aren't lesbians? How about bisexual icons? Am I the only lesbian who reacts with soul-trembling fear at the sight of [[Angelina Jolie]]?

;'''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject LGBT studies/Deletion|LGBT articles for deletion]]'''
New WP:LGBT studies member [[User:Pinkkeith|Pinkkeith]] has done this cool thing. If you click on that link, you'll see all the articles, categories, templates, and miscellany up for deletion. They're usually there because they're not considered to be [[WP:N|not notable]]. That can be a relative concept, and sometimes it has to be argued that topics pertaining to gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender issues ''are'' notable.


;'''Completely naked women!'''
Ha! Made you look! Even the guys are looking. Gay pioneers [[Kay Lahusen]]'s and [[Barbara Gittings]]' collection of photographs are up at the [http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?keyword=kay+lahusen+&submit.x=0&submit.y=0 New York Public Library]. Want to see images of the [http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=1080391&imageID=1605898&word=kay%20lahusen%20gay%20pride%201970%20contact%20sheet&s=1&notword=&d=&c=&f=&lWord=&lField=&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&total=9&num=0&imgs=12&pNum=&pos=3# first Pride march in 1970 in New York City]? How about [http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=1080384&imageID=1605891&word=kay%20lahusen%20sylvia%20rivera&s=1&notword=&d=&c=&f=&lWord=&lField=&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&total=6&num=0&imgs=12&pNum=&pos=3# Sylvia Rivera], drag queen extraordinaire, and Stonewall Riots participant? Or the contact sheet for [[The Ladder (magazine)|''The Ladder'']] that showed [http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=1079797&imageID=1605649&total=529&num=468&word=kay%20lahusen&s=1&notword=&d=&c=&f=&lWord=&lField=&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&imgs=12&pos=477 full-face lesbians in print for the first time in US history]? Ok I did mention naked women, and it's true. I found naked pictures of Barbara Gittings. But I scrolled through all of them and you'll have to as well. I'm not that mean, though. [http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=1078773&imageID=1605708&total=529&num=396&word=kay%20lahusen&s=1&notword=&d=&c=&f=&lWord=&lField=&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&imgs=12&pos=399 Here she is in the shower]. How cute is she?

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;'''Tagging articles'''
It seems a recurring issue which articles to tag, and what to say about a topic that's tagged. Certainly, because an article falls under our scope doesn't necessarily make the person gay. Florida Governor [[Charlie Crist]] has been rumored to be gay in some newspaper accounts. Although we all know [[Fred Phelps]] is supergay, he won't admit it so instead he does the absolutely awfulest anti-gay things on the planet to deflect suspicion. [[NAMBLA]], the red headed stepchild of the LGBT world, is tagged with an explanation we have yet to decide if we'll keep.


;'''Member Spotlight: [[User:Benjiboi|Benjiboi]]'''
In the lurking I do around and about on Wiki, I've long been astounded at the forbearance Benjiboi has for the utterly insane. Perhaps not so much, since the message on Benji's talk page notes frequent absences due to homophobia and transphobia. But it takes some kind of ... ''something'' that I don't have to face the constant anti-gay POV Benji does.

Benjiboi is a a bit of a [[Wikipedia:WikiFairy|WikiFaerie]], a [[Wikipedia:WikiGnome|WikiGnome]] and also a member of [[Wikipedia:Article Rescue Squadron|the Article Rescue Squadron]] in addition to being a LGBT project member. A few of Benjiboi's favorite links for making the wikiverse more fab are:
#[[Wikipedia:Manual of Style|Manual of style]], a must for anyone redecorating an article.
#[[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-06-26/Dispatches|Reliable sources in content review processes]], a wonderful and fully linked essay about sourcing and why we need more and better sources.
#[http://scholar.google.com/ Google scholar], which also searches Google books, is a great help in finding reliable sources.

;'''Member Spotlight: [[User:Becksguy|Becksguy]]'''

Becksguy didn’t start actively editing until May 2007. His most frequent tasks on Wiki include reverting vandalism to LGBT articles and creating new project-related articles. He comes from New York state, and to prove not all of us are teenagers (ha! I am so totally 15!) he's in his 60s and retired.

Becksguy considers his biggest triumph on Wikipedia so far was a [[WP:DYK|DYK]] in December 2007 for the first-ever newspaper report on what became [[AIDS]], in the ''[[New York Native]]''. He's also helped save several project-related articles from deletion. His lowest moment here was getting involved in the discussion on a particular terrorism related article, thinking he could help calm the roiled waters on an extremely contentious subject with multiple edit wars and passionate editors.
Here at WP:LGBT, he creates and improves articles that present notable LGBT related subjects in a fair and balanced way, and tries to include more of the significant alternative sexuality related subjects without being an activist, and works to better source project-related articles.

On Wikipedia as a whole, he says, "I think we need to learn better what processes work for a massive collaborative project. Some of what worked well for a more informal small project doesn’t scale up well. Process is not as important when the participants know each other. We need to get more of the current members to be more active. If more members were energized, the project would be able to accomplish more. We should be, in effect, the smaller and included Wikipedia for LGBT related subjects. Overall, I wish we could focus more on content creation and improvement, and less on vandal fighting."

;'''Fresh faces to brighten our pages'''
Welcome to all of our new members!: [[User:Balin42632003|Balin42632003]], [[User:supposedlydisposable|supposedlydisposable]], [[User:Axiomdragon|Axiomdragon]], [[User:antcjone|antcjone]], [[User:Jamesgregg76|Jamesgregg76]], [[User:Taulapapa|Taulapapa]], [[User:Mushii|Mushii]], [[User:Pinkkeith|Pinkkeith]], [[User:Gr8lyknow|Gr8lyknow]], [[User:EricV89|EricV89]], [[User:Varnent|Varnent]], [[User:Ged_UK|Ged_UK]], [[User:Richie wright1980|Richie wright1980]], [[User:Auriel|Auriel]]
If you have a question about anything, drop your question on [[Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_LGBT_studies|our talk page]]. We'll do our best to answer.

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''"A [[Supreme Court]] decision in 1958 reversed a 1956 ruling by a federal district court that U.S. postal authorities were correct in prohibiting the mailing of the [[Mattachine Society]]'s [[ONE, Inc.|''ONE'']] magazine. The lower court had ruled that ''ONE'' was not protected by the [[First Amendment]] because the magazine's contents 'may be vulgar, offensive, and indecent even though not regarded as such by a particular group ... because their own social or moral standards are far below those of the general community ... Social standards are fixed by and for the great majority and not by and for a hardened or weakened minority.'"'' - Michael Bronski in ''Pulp Friction'', 2003

Thanks for being weak and having lowered standards with me. --[[User:Moni3|Moni3]] ([[User talk:Moni3|talk]]) 00:10, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
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Welcome!

Hello, Mushii, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question and then place {{helpme}} after the question on your talk page. Again, welcome! 


Notability of LittleKuriboh

A tag has been placed on LittleKuriboh, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article seems to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable, that is, why an article about that subject should be included in Wikipedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert notability may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, and if you can indicate why the subject of this article is notable, you may contest the tagging. To do this, add {{hangon}} on the top of the page (below the existing db tag) and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm its subject's notability under the guidelines.

For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. ArglebargleIV 17:09, 13 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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If it is determined that the image does not qualify under fair use, it will be deleted within a couple of days according to our Criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.BetacommandBot 21:30, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Heeey!

What's up pal? ;D Have no fear, I'm pretty stress-resistant *checks the anti-stress shield to confirm* :P We do love our drrrrhaaaaamah in es:, don't we? Big hug and hope to write a featured article w/you here hee hee! ;-) Cheers Raystorm (¿Sí?) 11:15, 27 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, she told me. You left before she received my answer giving the ok. ^^;;; It's kinda unnerving, it's like I died or retired from Wikipedia or something. :P But well, people are being really nice, so I can't complain. Besides, I fully intend to be as pesky as always in the near future. xD Btw, I periodically try to entice people here to join the irc channel, perhaps this summer we'll be more successful! :D Cheers Raystorm (¿Sí?) 16:45, 27 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Where are you? :/ Haven't seen you at the irc channel these past few days... Cheeers Raystorm (¿Sí?) 14:34, 28 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

LGBT WikiProject Newsletter (July 2008)