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According to reference.com the word uncircumcised means:

  1. not circumcised.
  2. not Jewish; gentile.
  3. heathen; unregenerate.

The first definition above was actually only added recently after a controversy on wikipedia over the usage of the word. Wikipedia policy requires articles to be written using neutral words where ever possible. Some members of wikipedia felt that the correct term foreskin intact was somehow biased against circumcision. This is a claim that was made with no evidence whatsoever to back it up. Nevertheless when it was pointed out that their alternative word choice uncircumcised has a strong negative religious connotation as per its accepted dictionary definition the wikipedia community chose to defy its own policy and continue to use the alternate word. Around this time references.com coincidentally decided to add "not circumcised" as the first definition of uncircumcised

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Given the definition of the word uncircumcised do you think that the wikipedia community is hypocritical to say that the word uncircumcised is more neutral than intact?
No
Yes
Wikipedia once had an article that was actually disambiguation page for the word uncircumcised. This may had been the only disambiguation page in the history of wikipedia to go up for a vote for deletion. The consensus of the vote was keep/redirect as the votes to redirect and keep were actually tied. Some members that voted to redirect suggested keeping some of the information in the destination article, circumcision. None was ever kept.
Having a page for "uncircumcised" is just wrong! Its religious connotations shouldn't be discussed anywhere.
The wikipedia community must be out of their mind. The disambiguation page should had been kept!
There should be a separate article for "uncircumcised" on wikipedia that includes references to its religious meanings.
The religious connotations of "uncircumcised" should be mentioned in the article "circumcision" and anywhere else that Wikipedia uses the term.
This poll was created on 2002-08-15 03:08:30 by fdostoevski