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Semi-protected edit request on 16 October 2024

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Queer is not an umbrella term used to identify all members of the LGBTQ community.Queer is a term used to describe those individuals who identify as queer. 2600:1700:6560:1D70:B8A1:3607:494:C78 (talk) 22:24, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Cannolis (talk) 22:32, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

And/or in short description

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While MOS:ANDOR is a good general rule, there are times when or is not entirely clear (and the MOS article notes such exceptions exist). The existing wording seems like it could be misread as People who are neither heterosexual nor cisgender rather than People who are either not heterosexual or are not cisgender (or are neither). It could also be misread as People who are not heterosexual, or people who are cisgender, since it lacks parallelism on the other side of the or. The simplest and least confusing version to me would be People who are not heterosexual or not cisgender. Would this be too fussy? Lewisguile (talk) 09:37, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

People who are not heterosexual or not cisgender makes sense to me, and is similar to the wording the lead sentence has settled on after considerable discussion over the years.--Trystan (talk) 03:34, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'll change it for now, then. As you say, it also reflects the first sentence of the lede. Lewisguile (talk) 08:57, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]