Social justice warrior is currently a Culture, sociology and psychology good article nominee. Nominated by — Cirt (talk) at 13:17, 7 April 2016 (UTC)
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The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that in August 2015, the term "social justice warrior" was one of several new words and phrases added to Oxford Dictionaries?
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The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.
WP:TITLEFORMAT says to use sentence case, and WP:UCN doesn't say anything about how things are capitalized. I'm leaning towards weakly opposing the move request, although if the capitalization is used consistently in the sources for the article maybe it would make sense to follow that. — Strongjam (talk) 01:42, 6 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I've scanned thru the online available sources to the article. The majority use sentence case, the only ones that seem to not use sentence case are MTV (inconsistently uses both), Boing Boing (consistently upper cases first letters), HuffPo (one use, capitals) Mary Sue (one use, in capitals). There are a couple that use it as a proper noun when talking about a video game. All of the rest (15 or so, didn't keep a running count) seem to prefer sentence case. Including the OED. — Strongjam (talk) 01:58, 6 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Agreed, but it's quite a strong single source. Just wanted to bring attention to that particular one. In reality, the majority of secondary sources do indeed use the lowercase term, as mentioned by other respondents above and below. — Cirt (talk) 12:09, 6 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - Don't see a compelling reason to capitalise all letters. It may be frequently shortened to 'SJW', but that doesn't mean it's a proper noun. PeterTheFourth (talk) 03:39, 6 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. The article shows that there are many people called social justice warriors, not merely one grand Social Justice Warrior working alone like BatmanorSuperman. Here we merely have "importance capitalization" or "respect capitalization", not proper-name capitalization. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:39, 6 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
"Asia" and "America" are proper-names, and in English (but not in French) by customary usage their derivative ethnic adjectives keep the capital. The words "social" and "justice" and "warrior" are each not proper-names. In German, and formerly in Danish, this "importance capitalization" went to its apotheosis and capitalizing all nouns. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:52, 6 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, the product name is "Apple Watch" so it's a proper name, hence both words are capitalized. Similarly "tiger" is not a proper noun, but "Detroit Tigers" is a proper name. — Strongjam (talk) 12:22, 6 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
It's closer to Jewish-American Princess where a stereotyped pejorative is capitalized. It's a pejorative identity being applied to an individual and the identity is capitalized to separate it from non-pejorative uses. --DHeyward (talk) 03:12, 7 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support as it is reported as a proper name stereotyping pejorative. They are not split up, as in '"social justice" warrior' but used as a group identifier. Not using caps is the same as saying "liberal Democrat" vs. "Liberal Democrat." "Liberal" is capitalized when it's the basis of a title for a group like the political party in the EU, but not capitalized when used to describe a viewpoint. "Social Justice Warrior" is a group label, not a description of viewpoints. Jewish-American Princess is capitalized as another stereotyping pejorative proper name. Our article gives no other definition of "Social Justice Warrior" than as a pejorative stereotyped group identity. No one confuses "he's a warrior for social justice" with "he's a Social Justice Warrior." The first is not clear whether the meaning would be a pejorative, but the second, through the use of capitalization, is very clearly intended to denote the pejorative use as a proper name for a group. Not using capitals implies that "social justice warrior" is not always a pejorative proper name label for stereotyping individuals and that it somehow reflects their individual viewpoints. Proper names are capitalized per WP:MOSPN and do not use sentence case even if the proper name includes common nouns (i.e. South Africa, not south Africa). --DHeyward (talk) 03:08, 7 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
It's a proper name, not noun. If it weren't, the common nouns in it could be rearranged without change of meaning. "warrior for social justice" is never used as a replacement for "Social Justice Warrior." It always defines a group or we ned to rewrite the article so that it's not a pejorative stereotype. --DHeyward (talk) 10:11, 14 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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You are entitled to your opinion. While social justice often concerns women's rights and SJWs often promote social justice, this topic is not directly related to women in general. SSTflyer12:33, 6 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
While I would agree the article isn't only or even primarily about women, it does focus on that aspect often; "women's rights" is mentioned in literally the first sentence for example. This seems just as relevant to WikiProject Women as it does most of the other wikiprojects listed above. SamWalton (talk) 12:39, 6 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I recently removed the sentence mentioning the Chrome extension from the lead with the reason that I didn't think it flowed very well with the rest of the lead. However, upon reviewing the rest of the article, I don't think we should mention the extension at all, given the lack of sources (besides the one cited, from The Mary Sue) that link the extension to the main topic. Any comments? APerson (talk!) 04:17, 12 April 2016 (UTC) (Pinging Cirt, who copyedited the sentence and put it back in the lead.)[reply]
Done, I've removed that material, per DIFF. @APerson:I admit I thought it would be nice to keep in the article, but unfortunately you're quite correct, best to wait and see if there's a greater preponderance of sourcing on that particular factoid. Thank you for your most polite and constructive feedback here on the talk page! Cheers, — Cirt (talk) 04:22, 12 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
This article makes it seem that all social justice warriors are saints persecuted by heathen misogynist trolls. This article should provide a balanced view of the subject. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MagicatthemovieS (talk • contribs)
Agree with EvergreenFir, thank you. The complainant user has again refused to engage in talk page discussion. I note I've attributed the source directly to the person who said it themselves. — Cirt (talk) 22:44, 19 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
As someone who is socially progressive myself and has no time for sexism, racism or any similar prejudices, nevertheless I agree with the first person - this article is strongly biased. The narrative of this article is more or less what the first complainant stated. In actual fact, while it's true that SJW is sometimes used to slur anyone advocating progressive views, it's not the only use. The term covers a spectrum, with some people reserving its usage for those who advocate extreme positions, e.g. the idea that a white guy dressing up in a Mariachi costume on Halloween is 'cultural appropriation that mocks a marginalized, oppressed ethnic group purely for the amusement of priviledged white people'. We've all seen this kind of mindset expressing itself around the net, so don't pretend it doesn't exist. 95.149.93.114 (talk) 01:38, 22 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Having read the article it seems to include a lot of definitions of the term, which are in agreement with what the IP is saying. So I'm not seeing the issue at all. Brustopher (talk) 11:44, 23 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]