Thread:Sakaros/@comment-1998339-20190308193515/@comment-104549-20190309003516

I struggle to believe that the English usage of the word will be familiar to most of the English-speaking readership of the wiki; speaking only for myself, in my personal and not Admin context, I was familiar with its meaning, but had never heard of it being considered perjorative. I suppose it's a Hebrew equivalent of the Japanese , which apparently suffers the same mixture of reactions.

I'm leery of an enforcement decision based on a generalized "somebody, somewhere, might be offended" for a word which is not generally recognized as offensive when used in English speaking cultures (contrast goyim with n****r, which I think we can all agree is generally offensive); I have a pronounced distaste for crossing the line between "ensuring respectful language that makes users comfortable contributing" and pandering to those seeking a reason to be offended.

All that said, if the collective wisdom is that it really needs to go, there's a simpler justification: as you say, Star Wars Fanon is an English-language Wiki, and goyim isn't English, nor is it a loanword of which no viable translation really captures the essence.