Wikipedia talk:WikiFairy

message: Shouldn't it be Wikifairies?  - BalthCat 02:16, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Shouldn't it be WikiFaeries? Benjiboi 05:10, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiFairies 

message: Is anybody else aware of the ambiguous insult in that term? Do wikipedians have to be homosexual in order to apply for the title? — Ashmodai (talk · contribs) 09:01, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There's no insult, ambiguous or otherwise.  The mythological idea of fairies, faeries, or fey, existed a long time before it became used as a derogatory term for homosexuals, and despite that new meaning of the word, the original meaning hasn't faded at all.  In addition to not being censored, Wikipedia is also not a community which will bow down to political correctness at the expense of quality articles.  Please don't attempt to impose your personal hangups on the rest of the community, thank you. - Ugliness Man 11:04, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

text: Yeah trying to be politically correct sometimes has the opposite effect (look at this:Little Penguin#Fairy Penguins at Sea World)! We do not need to rename this. --WikiSlasher 11:00, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Agree with the concerns... see Merger below. VigilancePrime (talk) 03:16, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

text:  Straight, gender-theorist, academic, writer, Texan living in NYC and I have no problem being a Wiki Fairy (however you spell it). HullIntegrity (talk) 22:45, 3 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wiki "fairy", eh? 

message: Hey everyone.  You'll notice I made some changes to this article as well as Wikipedia:WikiGnome and Wikipedia:WikiElf and all three of the articles' related cats and userboxes so that certain things were similar across the Wiki Woodland Creature articles.
These aren't really content changes, but things like making sure all of the pages linked to the other two in a See Also section, or making sure that all three articles always capitalized the first letter of whatever came after wiki or making sure that all the articles had the same type of info on their respective userboxes.
In the same line, I tried to keep the format of the userboxes and the category pages similar.  I wrote descriptions for the category pages lacking them, and made sure that form stuff was the same on all of them.  I also changed the userboxes so that all of the userboxes had linkes to the category as well as the article (only one or two of them had before).
Anyway, like I said no real content changes--this pretty sums up what I did for all three articles except WikiElf where I made a few additional changes.  Just wanted to let everyone know, especially as I doubt that any of you watch all of those pages.  Miss Mondegreen | Talk   09:53, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changes to the wiki woodland creature articles 

message: I don't really like the wikifairy. That just sounds...tacky. talk
: Agree with the concerns... see Merger below. VigilancePrime (talk) 03:16, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Drop the fairy

message: :So about this proposal (I'm not the one who recommended it).
* The Wikipedia:WikiZenMaster page is designed to complement this page. I wrote it using the Fairy idea as a guide, noting that some people - mostly men but also some women - may object to the term "Fairy" for various reasons (and this is by no means a homosexual-reference issue... I also see a feminization issue, and there could be others... even religious issues about mythological similarities... who knows?) and thus created the WZM. The term was already mentioned, but only in passing, on the WF article.
: I do not support a merge. I think that the articles should be overlapping, complementary, and even inermixed. I think that to force a WZM into the term WF - or even vice cersa - goes against the non-judgemental attitude we should have. Besides, these aren't articles, they are little more than humor! No harm in keeping both.
: My $.02 (and probably overpriced at that!). VigilancePrime (talk) 03:16, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I do not support a merge.  It states in the article that users may be called this who prefer not to be called a "fairy".  I agree with the comment by VigilancePrime. PseudoOne (talk) 17:20, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

text: Support merge, admitted to be a duplication, if anyone objects to being called a fairy, just don't add a userbox...Random89 (talk) 18:28, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

text: Support merge; in fact I think all of these "fauna" pages (except WikiGnome, I guess) should disappear, and this would be a first step.  In fact, one could argue that the closing note at Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion/Wikipedia:WikiSloth provides strong support for deleting or merging this particular page.  The closing admin said, on December 18, 2007:  "Wiki-animal lovers should be warned: while there is no consensus here, there is a real concern simmering beneath the surface. If fauna-creep becomes a real problem, WP may one day have its own mass extinction event. In short, do not go forth and multiply (these categories.)"  The WikiZenMaster page was created after that.  While the admin specifically mentioned categories, I think the same applies to pages like this one.  6SJ7 (talk) 20:27, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal 

message: Rather than have a duplicative page, why not merge, and just have a single note at the bottom that says some Wikipedians prefer the name WZM.
Create your own userbox - possibly using the Pipe trick:
This user is a WikiZenMaster
or some such thing. - jc37 21:06, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thought 

message: Does this need the joke tag? Is it a joke that certain people are WikiFaries? Pop6 (talk) 19:19, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  joke tag 

message: I've created a new topicon called Template:WikiFairy so that it doesn't use the deprecated Template:click and offers the option to play nicely with other topicons by using the parameter "|icon_nr=".  The only catch is that it doesn't play nicely (yet) because the icon's width is too small.  If someone wants to create a new, wider version of :File:Fée.svg, and then adjust the width in the template to 25, that should fix the problem.  Admittedly, I'm more of a WikiDragon than a WikiFairy, so I'll let one of you muck with the details.  If no one fixes it in a couple of months, I may come along create a new icon for it. – VisionHolder « talk » 15:13, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  New topicon