Wikipedia talk:Wikipedians

message: The pages address the same topic with roughly the same level of detail, so we ought to WP:CONSOLIDATE them.  talk 20:38, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal: merge [[WP:Who writes Wikipedia?]] into this page 

message: @ I disagree with the changes made on the page. Contributors and editors are missing from the definition... and MUST be present. Volunteers is too vague. We are editors and contributors "before" being volunteers. Wikipedians is often a wikilink in different articles on Wikipedia and visitors that want to know more about the term only learn that we are people giving some time for Wikipedia as volunteers. Also, editors and contributors are talking each other using "editor" or "contributor" before using "Wikipedian". I thought we first had to discuss here to find a "consensus" among  editors before publishing a new version... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Antoine Legrand (talk • contribs) 
:Someone who edits is an editor, someone who contributes is a contributor. Simple English usage.  The focus of this page is Wikipedians, and what that means. I simplified the lead to make it clearer and readable to everyone. 
:As I now read the above, I think your focus on adding the precise word "editor" and/or "contributor" to every policy page is rather pedantic, and honestly more than a touch POV pushing disruption. And if you don't think so, I suggest you may want to check WP:AN/I archives to see how the community has addressed such things in the past. For example, I've seen bot users not only lose the privilege to use bots, but getting outright banned over such things. 
:At the moment, I don't care enough about this to really concern myself much about it, but please be aware, if it is deemed that your edits are causing disruption, some uninvolved admin may decide to enact sanctions. - jc37 13:09, 16 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lead sentence 

message: Please could you update: "It contains the advice or opinions of one or more Wikipedia contributors." > "It contains the advice or opinions of one or more editors."
"editors" versus "contributors" score (to make realize overwhelming "editor" usage, and thus that "editor" must be privileged).
Some examples:
Wikipedia:Essays: 8 x "editors" versus 0 x "contributors" (I edited the page to add 1 x "contributor"; to state "contributor=editor")
Category:Wikipedia_essays: 141 x "editors" versus 2 x "contributors"
Wikipedia:Wikipedia_essays: 6 x "editors" versus 2 x "contributors"
Wikipedia:The value of essays: 5 x "editors" versus 0 x "contributors"
Wikipedia:The difference between policies, guidelines and essays: 9 x "editors" versus 0 x "contributors"
Wikipedia:Don't cite essays or proposals as if they were policy: 5 x "editors" versus 0 x "contributors" + Template:Essay 1 x "contributor"
So there are over 2000 essays. Most of them showing only 1 occurence of "contributor" on their page (because of Template:Essay transclusion). This can "confuse" newcomers, readers, non-native English speaking people if they don't know that "contributor=editor". — Antoine Legrand (talk) 22:37, 16 September 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Just speaking for myself, I am really losing my patience with your ridiculous preoccupation with this. If you keep it up then you, specifically, aren't going to be an editor, contributor, user, reader, Wikipedian, or anything else around here much longer. Now put a lid on it. EEng 22:55, 16 September 2021 (UTC)

text: In English, it's helpful and retains interest if we switch freely between near-synonyms as appropriate. If we don't, an occasional use can disturb the readers, who may fear that some important distinction is being made. Your proposed restrictions of our vocabulary would be actively harmful. Now please read Wikipedia:Competence is required and follow the advice above. NebY (talk) 23:53, 16 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template:Essay