Grants talk:IdeaLab/Restrict words

No. It is automated censhorship. Down with PC etc.

Wikipedia is not censored

This is official policy. If you are uncomfortable with this, Wikipedia is not the right place for you. Titanium Dragon (talk) 20:44, 4 June 2016 (UTC)

The policy you cite covers articles and images on the English Wikipedia. I think this proposal is about offensive comments on talk pages, which is not covered by that policy. If you are uncomfortable with the notion of rooting out harassment on Mediawiki sites, this IdeaLab discussion is not for you.--Greenrd (talk) 09:42, 5 June 2016 (UTC)

Already done

See AbuseFilter. Nemo 15:47, 5 June 2016 (UTC)

Not all of us speak the same dialect

Harassment may be a perception based on listeners' interpretation rather than speaker's intent; and interpretation becomes difficult when our dialects include different definitions for the same word. Even words with single meanings may be perceived as offensive by sensitive individuals but uniquely descriptive by others. Attempts to eliminate all words or phrases having negative connotations to anyone encourages new spellings of banned words to convey the same message. Thewellman (talk) 07:46, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

• This is my concern as well. For example, this movie was seen as perfectly fine in the US, however it was seen as obscene in the UK. Restricting words would likely just result in people coming up with new spellings - something I see all the time in various forums. Tokyogirl79 (talk) 06:06, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

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