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Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment

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This article is or was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Alinett. Peer reviewers: Studenta1, Mariposa678.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 22:37, 17 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Plans for article

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Hi everyone, I'm working on expanding this article for a school project and I just wanted to post my plans in case anyone wanted to give advice/critiques during any stages of the writing process:

  1. I’m planning to create a “content” section that summarizes the work itself, the lessons/model for sexual behavior that it promotes, etc. I was thinking of adding some sort of background section about the authors and their intentions beforehand, although I’m not sure if this is relevant enough to the page’s content. I would at least mention the primary and secondary authors and their professions, and address the immediate conditions that gave rise to the need for such a publication.)
  2. In addition to the existing "historical significance" section, I will add a larger exploration of the effect that the work had on the LGBT community’s sexual practices, their views on sex and sexuality and gay culture, and the overall epidemic and wider norms related to sexual practices today.
  3. The next section will be the controversy of the book, with subsections for the reception of the work by the LGBT and straight communities.
  4. Somewhere in the article, likely in the "historical significance" section, I will discuss in more depth how it differed from a similar manual produced by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence in San Francisco, entitled “Fair Play!.”

These changes should be completed by early-mid December at the latest.

The sources I’m planning on using are:

I'm a bit concerned that some of these are too narrow for Wikipedia science writing, because they're individual studies, although it is difficult to find an overarching consensus in the science/social science communities about the effect that this publication had on the LGBT community and the epidemic. Alinett (talk) 01:57, 23 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note on the article

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I have twice now had to remove a well-intentioned but incorrect note stating, "This article contains hypotheses not currently accepted by the majority of the scientific community". In the first place, the note is unsupported by evidence. In the second place (much more importantly) the note fails to distinguish between the book the article is about and the article itself. As I already pointed out once, the first time I removed the note, "Even if the book contained ideas the scientific community doesn't accept, that does not mean that the article contains or promotes those ideas". The fact that a Wikipedia article discusses a book that puts forward ideas not accepted by the scientific community in no way makes it accurate to say that the article "contains hypotheses not currently accepted by the majority of the scientific community"; the book may, but the article about it does not. FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) 23:00, 15 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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