: WP:GNL is an essay expressing the personal opinion of one or more editors. It is not a policy or even a guideline, and thus carries no more weight than my personal opinion, the personal opinion of the random IP you have been reverting or the personal opinion of anyone else. Changing "man-made" to "made by people (as opposed to being natural)" in Swimmingpool (and possibly other articles, though I haven't checked) is bad English, and outright silly. And edit-warring to keep it in the article is even more silly, so stop. I have absolutely no problem with gender-neutral language, and try to be as gender-neutral as I can be, but "attacking" established terms that by definition already are gender-neutral, just because they include the letters M, A and N, in that order, is going too far. What's next on your agenda? Changing every instance of "human" in articles to "huperson"?.