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Delibirda Since: Sep, 2020
2021-08-16 11:05:27

No.

"Listen up, Marina, because this is SUPER important. Whatever you do, don't eat th“ “DON'T EAT WHAT?! Your text box ran out of space!”
Braylovsky Since: Jun, 2017
2021-08-16 11:08:04

No

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WarJay77 (Troper Knight)
2021-08-16 11:14:07

They're more subjective but not so subjective that they allow first person. It's just that the problem is so huge it wasn't enforced until recently.

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alnair20aug93 (Long Runner)
2021-08-16 12:41:02

Nnope.

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CrypticMirror Since: Jan, 2001
2021-08-16 16:25:31

As others have said, they are supposed to be in the same neutral tone of voice as the rest of the wiki. In many cases the first person prefixes to the headscratcher is just wordcruft anyway. The problem is that a lot of the pages date from the It Just Bugs Me era when first person language was commonly accepted, and subsequent editors, even after the change, have just followed that example.

We do try and request that new edits containing them get reworded, although that is harder now with the loss of the relevant notifier, and we do request that, if possible, editors reword first person questions into a neutral tone as they come across them. It is a long, uphill, battle though, and it will take a long time to correct all the new entries, much less the older ones.

I hope that helps answer your query.

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