User talk:2live2fly
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February 2023
Hello, I'm BilCat. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Aircraft pilot, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at referencing for beginners. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. BilCat (talk) 02:25, 15 February 2023 (UTC)
- This is getting tiring. The group who self appointed as 'gate keeper' of all things aviation in Wikipedia insists on using inappropriate and discriminatory terminology, referring to female pilots as "aviators". Since the mid-1920, regulating agencies have issued 'pilot licences', not 'aviator licences'. For the FAA, since 1926. Reference: https://www.faa.gov/about/history/milestones/media/first_pilots_license.pdf. Look up any dictionaries, the term 'aviator' and 'aviatrix' are both outdated. They do not describe the role of modern pilots who do far more than 'aviate'. Back in the early days, female pilots were referred to as 'aviatrices' in media. Why is this group declaring that irrelevant and removing the term aviatrix without any references to justify their actions? Again, according to the dictionary, a 'female aviator' is an 'aviatrix', whether this group likes it or not. Who gave this group the right to erase historical data and declare that women's gender identity is irrelevant when their gender identity was respected when they were alive and called 'aviatrices' in media and books. Verbal discrimination and intentionally dismissing the United Nations' guidelines for proper terminology (
- https://www.un.org/en/gender-inclusive-language/guidelines.shtml) has no place in Wikipedia nor does this ongoing battle against the women who take the time to improve Wikipedia by removing offending terminology. This behavior is well-below the standards and aims of Wikipedia. 2live2fly (talk) 03:32, 15 February 2023 (UTC)