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There is some dispute over whether this article should use the word "focuses" with one S or "focusses" with two. There doesn't seem to be anything in the Manual of Style about this, but only 773 articles in Wikipedia currently use "focusses", compared with 296,977 uses of "focuses".
Chambers Dictionary doesn't allow the double-s form at all. The Oxford English Dictionary has this to say (specifically about the verb formation): "Against the broad rule that final consonants are not doubled after short unstressed vowels, inflected forms with -ss- are attested, especially in British English, but are nonetheless considerably rarer in current usage than forms without doubled final consonant; in the British National Corpus, the ratio of -s- forms to -ss- forms is about nine to one. P. Peters Cambridge Guide Eng. Usage (2004) notes that in a recent language usage survey in the United Kingdom, over 75% of respondents endorsed single-s inflected forms."
It doesn't seem controversial to me to use the much more common single-s form. --OpenToppedBus - Talk to the driver 15:08, 13 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Use universally accepted terms rather than those less widely distributed, especially in titles.
Use a commonly understood word or phrase in preference to one that has a different meaning because of national differences
When more than one variant spelling exists within a national variety of English, the most commonly used current variant should usually be preferred, except where the less common spelling has a specific usage in a specialized context
See wikt:focusses for the British spelling. Jim1138 (talk) 09:41, 22 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
A succession of anonymous IP addresses keep on removing the picture of Faye from this article. They claim that the image is not of her but this is obviously nonsense. The image she uses on her Twitter profile shows same person. The image we are using is sourced to a screenshot from this video where she is clearly identified as being Shon Faye. This image removal is disruptive and tedious and it has to stop!
There is absolutely nothing wrong with the image we are using. It is definitely her. It is a decent quality picture. It is not excessively out of date. If anybody feels that they have any better suggestions for the image to use then feel free to suggest them but if people continue to just remove the image, without a reason or citing a bogus reason, then this is going to lead to warnings for vandalism and/or the page being protected from anonymous editing, which is not ideal because it also prevents any other anonymous editors who might want to contribute constructively from editing. --DanielRigal (talk) 12:38, 14 November 2020 (UTC)Reply
I've removed a mention of a supposed book published by Faye entitled "Pinkwashed: How Gays Sold Queer Liberation". This doesn't seem to exist - it has an ISBN number, but appears never to have been in stock at any bookseller, and the supposed publisher makes no mention of it on its website. Best guess is that it was planned at some point but got cancelled before publication. --OpenToppedBus - Talk to the driver 15:04, 1 December 2020 (UTC)Reply