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Its doesn't include the recent Olympic Athlete that is in trials do to her transphobic remarks 186.53.82.165 (talk) 23:00, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

See Talk:J. K. Rowling/Archive 22#Rowling and Musk named in cyber-bullying case; no consensus to add that content. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 01:52, 25 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, Alarics; thanks for the ref cleanup and the tidying, but the established citation style on this WP:FA is to wikilink publishers. Could you help me understand why you are unlinking only a couple publishers, and adding unnecessary locations on only a few (after I partially corrected that once already?) Featured articles must have consistent citations, and this one has a well-defined style. Thanks, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 12:21, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The convention I follow is that the location (i.e. the city of publication) should be given for every newspaper unless it is part of the paper's name. This is necessary because there are, for instance, several newspapers around the world called The Guardian. So I don't agree that these locations are "unnecessary". In the case of mainstream newspapers at least, this is a more useful form of disambiguation than giving the name of the publisher, since publishers of newspapers nowadays tend to change because of company mergers, etc., whereas they very rarely change location. The Daily Mirror, for example, is now on at least its fifth owner, but it has been published in London consistently for 121 years. This distinguishes it from the Daily Mirror in Sri Lanka. Also, Template:Cite news says "Do not use the publisher parameter for the name of a work (e.g. a website, book, encyclopedia, newspaper, magazine, journal, etc.)".
I wasn't aware of the "featured article" rule you mention, sorry. I absolutely agree with you about the desirability of consistency within any one article but on this occasion I realised I wasn't going to have time to do everything that needed doing. -- Alarics (talk) 21:34, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for explaining; I understand the logic behind your personal convention, but that's not the CITEVAR used on this article, or agreed upon in many featured articles. If others agree that locations should be more broadly added, we could consider changing the established style, but most of the newspapers used here are well known. I think we're using the work/publisher parameters correctly throughout, but if you see a place where that is not the case, pls advise. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 22:40, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Rowling and Barbra Banda

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Times and again, Rowling has exhibited transphobia like her recent claim that Barbra Banda doesn't look feminine enough. J.K. Rowling harasses African soccer player for not being womanly enough

This is my reason for adding Category:Anti-transgender activists here. Arbeiten8 (talk) 10:08, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Putting aside the misrepresentation of Rowling's issue here, and the fact that her comments on Banda are not even related to trans issues, the article does not classify Rowling as an 'anti-transgender activist', meaning it is not appropriate to put the article in such a category.Daff22 (talk) 15:20, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
"Transphobic [anti-trans] billionaire author J.K. Rowling is attacking yet another cisgender African female athlete" Arbeiten8 (talk) 21:21, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Per Daff22. Arbeiten8, please have a look at a broader sampling of unbiased sources, along with the scores of times the same discussion has been had on this talk page, and in particular, the high quality sources required for a Featured article.
And I believe we have the same situation with this. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 23:32, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]