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Ok there is something wrong there. If a character is established as a lesbian to change them into something else is not only mislabelling but definitely done intentionally and with questionable intent.
Edited by Tuvok
>even when the change makes no sense or renders the entry factually incorrect
I mean, that's vandalism, agenda or no.
Trouble Cube continues to be a general-purpose forum for those who desire such a thing.
Jeez, I can't even figure out what they're trying to do here, just that it is offensive. Reversion required.
Go ahead and revert. At this point, it's hard to look at that edit history and not think there is some agenda/vandalism going on, so we will be issuing a suspension to see what the matter is. Thanks for the heads-up PM, though.
Yeah, I went ahead and started going through their edit history and reverting things where appropriate. They also have a fair number of innocuous edits, but the pattern of weird LGBTQ / gender issues goes back a long way.
Lots of their edits have already been fixed by tropers who noticed the individual issues but not the larger pattern.
I think I've fixed everything in their visible history.
Troper Ocsaleb
has a persistent habit of making strange edits to remove the word "lesbian," often replacing it with either "bi" or "transgender," even when the change makes no sense or renders the entry factually incorrect. They even take it to the extent of removing the "L" in LGBT, including one case (Main.Periphery Demographic) where doing so broke the Wiki Word to LGBT Fanbase.
On Irony.Real Life, they also changed a female pronoun ("she") to a male one ("he"). I clicked on the article being cited to be sure, and the person in question is repeatedly identified as female.
Not sure what to make of it; I initially thought it might be some weird word-replacement plug-in, but the changes seem too specific and varied to be anything but intentional.
PMing them to bring their attention to this query.