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: A few comments:
: A few comments:
:* I couldn't see how your quote (I assume it to be one, despite the lack of quote marks) from Shakespeare supports your point. I'll have to admit that I never really studied Shakespeare, but I couldn't see in that quote that he ''is'' talking about the unknown-gender singular, rather than plural. Looking at it further, perhaps you are right; I'm not sure. But even if you are, my remaining points remain.
:* I couldn't see how your quote (I assume it to be one, despite the lack of quote marks) from Shakespeare supports your point. I'll have to admit that I never really studied Shakespeare, but I couldn't see in that quote that he ''is'' talking about the unknown-gender singular, rather than plural. Looking at it further, perhaps you are right; I'm not sure. But even if you are, my remaining points remain.
:: Seriously, you deleted it because you didnt understand it? My word, that is silly. When one talks of "every X" you use the singular form. "Every man took his gun." for example. So, in the quote, he used they to make the singular. But hey, its all about the liberals! --[[User:KimSell|KimSell]] 06:51, 23 February 2008 (EST)
:* Your edit was poor in the sense of the flow of the article. The result of your edit was to have the article state that "they" refers to plural, then explain that it had a history of referring to the singular. That comes close to have the article contradict itself. At the very least, you could have made it say that it ''normally'' refers to the plural, but ''sometimes'' refers to the singular, then go on to explain its history of referring to the singular.
:* Your edit was poor in the sense of the flow of the article. The result of your edit was to have the article state that "they" refers to plural, then explain that it had a history of referring to the singular. That comes close to have the article contradict itself. At the very least, you could have made it say that it ''normally'' refers to the plural, but ''sometimes'' refers to the singular, then go on to explain its history of referring to the singular.
:: Oh my gosh! It showed that a word can have more than one meaning. That is simply the case. --[[User:KimSell|KimSell]] 06:51, 23 February 2008 (EST)
:* There is also the possibility of middle ground here. Perhaps the word ''does'' have a history of being used for the unknown-gender singular, but perhaps this use of the word has become far more common for the reasons that you deleted. In which case you can reinsert a form of your edit, but retain (and modify) what was already there. A common problem on Conservapedia is someone pushing a liberal view ''to the exclusion of'' the conservative view, rather than trying to accommodate both.
:* There is also the possibility of middle ground here. Perhaps the word ''does'' have a history of being used for the unknown-gender singular, but perhaps this use of the word has become far more common for the reasons that you deleted. In which case you can reinsert a form of your edit, but retain (and modify) what was already there. A common problem on Conservapedia is someone pushing a liberal view ''to the exclusion of'' the conservative view, rather than trying to accommodate both.
:: But there was NO evidence for the "conservative" view, if that is what you think it was. --[[User:KimSell|KimSell]] 06:51, 23 February 2008 (EST)
:If my second point was the ''only'' point I had, I would have simply fixed the flow myself. But the problems seemed greater than that, so I thought it best to revert and comment.
:If my second point was the ''only'' point I had, I would have simply fixed the flow myself. But the problems seemed greater than that, so I thought it best to revert and comment.
:[[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 06:42, 23 February 2008 (EST)
:[[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 06:42, 23 February 2008 (EST)
:: Sure, you would prefer to have an incorrect claim in an "encyclopedia" because it is all about the liberals and the feminists. That is your choice. I won't correct this article any further. --[[User:KimSell|KimSell]] 06:51, 23 February 2008 (EST)