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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2016-07-21 18:05:39 +0000 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2016-07-22 15:26:49 +0200 |
| commit | 3c2d03a2b91a085b94c66e7810f358988538d1e4 (patch) | |
| tree | 49e6ec50a98a2b71ec6e742fedaec8cf0eebc4de /doc | |
| parent | c2f0dc6ed186be77f718c8016bcb8a5c008a1a8e (diff) | |
doc: Add note on gender-neutral wording.
Suggested by ng0 <ng0@we.make.ritual.n0.is>.
* doc/contributing.texi (Submitting Patches): Add @item regarding
gender-neutral wording.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/contributing.texi | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/contributing.texi b/doc/contributing.texi index 208c6af5e8..dc554d2c76 100644 --- a/doc/contributing.texi +++ b/doc/contributing.texi @@ -323,6 +323,12 @@ related to the hardware---e.g., use of different instruction set extensions---or to the operating system kernel---e.g., reliance on @code{uname} or @file{/proc} files. +@item +When writing documentation, please use gender-neutral wording when +referring to people, such as +@uref{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they, singular +``they''@comma{} ``their''@comma{} ``them''}, and so forth. + @end enumerate When posting a patch to the mailing list, use @samp{[PATCH] @dots{}} as |