Help talk:Style guidelines
- When writing their lived experience, should the person sign their (user)name? I understand some might not want to have their experience linked to them, so maybe the guidelines could mention that you can put your username if you wish to? I also understand that that might make the articles a bit clunky/harder to navigate --Fire Eider (talk) 16:37, 23 August 2022 (UTC)
- How do we do citations? I tried to fix Overlapping_neurotypes but I don't know if that looks right. I want some more info before I fix other pages, please
- It looks good to me --Fire Eider (talk)
Citing community consensus
How should we assert "distilled wisdom" such as ABA being harmful? (It seems important to do so, see e.g. this thread: https://twitter.com/WIRblog/status/1563002859246956544)
We could use phrases like "Many people within the autistic community agree that...", but we want to avoid "false controversies" (thanks @fochti for this phrase!) where it seems like there's disagreement on a topic when really there's broad agreement.
Much of what the #ActuallyAutistic community has done is share our experiences until we collectively distill certain things that seem broadly true to us.
Special citations for asserting community consensus
One possibility would be to have have certain special citations:
[community-consensus]: means there's rough community consensus within the #ActuallyAutistic community [community-controversy]: means there's meaningful controversy within the #ActuallyAutistic community; sizeable groups on more than one side [experimental-theory]: experimental theory, not yet tested and accepted or rejected by the #ActuallyAutistic community at large
Examples: - ABA is harmful [community-consensus] [1] [2] [3] - Most people within the #ActuallyAutistic community prefer identity-first language [community-consensus] - Masking isn't worth it [community-controversy] - Monotropism explains everything about autism [experimental-theory]
Special language for asserting community consensus
Alternatively we could write out certain key phrases: - There's consensus within the #ActuallyAutistic community that ABA is harmful. - There's consensus within the #ActuallyAutistic community that most autists within the #ActuallyAutistic community prefer identity-first language - There's controversy within the community about whether masking is worth it - There's an experimental theory that monotropism explains everything
Writing out the phrases feels a bit wordy, and also shoves the content of the sentence to the end. Could also be written the other way around:
- ABA is harmful, according to rough consensus within the community. - Most people within the #ActuallyAutistic prefer identity-first language, according to rough consensus within the community.
But this still feels wordy. I think I like the special citation form.
Citation storms
Another possibility (which we could do in addition to using tags like [community-consensus]) would be to have "citation storms", where we maybe cite like 50 or 100 Twitter threads of lived experience of #ActuallyAutistic people.
But a citation storm can't stand in for something like [community-consensus] tags, because a citation storm on its own doesn't assert that there aren't other popular views within the community.
--AutExplorer (talk) 15:07, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
