Topic on User talk:ArtsyGirl

Your edit to "Critical Research Failure" has been rejected

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Robkelk (talkcontribs)

Hello.

I have rejected your edit to Critical Research Failure.

Current text: This can be Played for Laughs by having a Book Dumb character make such an error so that a smarter character can spot and react to it.

Your proposed change: This can be Played for Laughs by having a Book Dumb character make such an error so that a smart character can correct him/her.

This edit says - not implies, but outright says - that Book Dumb people are not smart. Not only is this untrue, it's also a violation of the Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment; the change would annoy people who either are or know people who are intelligent but did not attend school.

You are free to appeal this decision to any other member of the moderation team. However, because of the way that moderation works on this wiki, you would need to re-submit your edit if another moderator decides that I was wrong to reject it.

@Labster @Looney Toons @GethN7 @Robkelk @QuestionableSanity @Derivative @SelfCloak

QuestionableSanity (talkcontribs)

As an aside, I would suggest using 'them' in place of 'him/her'. 'Them' is less clunky than the alternative, and does not exclude people who lay outside the gender binary.

Umbire the Phantom (talkcontribs)

Also, the correcting character doesn't have to be someone who's considered smart themselves, per se - just 'smarter' than whoever made the error in this instance.

AmberLovesEverything (talkcontribs)

Well, okay, I won't use him/her next time, I do understand, what you're saying, Umbire.