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Custom Linter to encourage use of inclusive words in our codebase

Created by: jasongornall

Feature request description

A sample list of ideas:

master => main, slave => worker, groom => refine, blacklist => disallowedList whitelist => allowedList nuke => hard remove?

Is your feature request related to a problem? If so, please describe.

Discussed in a slack thread: https://sourcegraph.slack.com/archives/C01QD50LU64/p1653070861677379

Describe alternatives you've considered.

Just a game of wack-a-mole

Additional context

Some reference material: https://inclusivenaming.org/word-lists/tier-1/ https://bytes.grubhub.com/building-an-inclusive-technology-organization-at-grubhub-7998a19fa624