Johnlazenbatt

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Hello, Johnlazenbatt, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, your edit to History of masturbation does not conform to Wikipedia's Neutral Point of View policy (NPOV). Wikipedia articles should refer only to facts and interpretations that have been stated in print or on reputable websites or other forms of media.

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Hello, @Tgeorgescu, and thanks for your quick response. The NPOV policy page you referred me to states that NPOV "means representing fairly, proportionately, and, as far as possible, without editorial bias, all the significant views that have been published by reliable sources on a topic." I am questioning the reliability of the source in this case. The source is a popular book on a wide variety of sex-related topics. The author clearly has no independent expertise on Sumerian society, about which she makes a number of statements in relation to sexual behaviour. She provides no references for these statements (in fact the book is entirely without references). It is the absence of authoritative references that renders the book, although published, an unreliable source in this specific area. There might be another area in which the author is authoritative but about Sumerian sexual mores she isn't!

I don't wish to hurt the feelings of the author of the source or of whoever referenced it at several places in this page. Maybe there's a better way of dealing with this. But the source is not reliable in this area and therefore the statements in the page that reference it do not themselves conform to NPOV.

John Lazenbatt (talk) 21:01, 26 October 2022 (UTC)

The discussion is taking place at WP:RSN. tgeorgescu (talk) 21:08, 26 October 2022 (UTC)

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Please see WP:RSN#History of masturbation. tgeorgescu (talk) 20:04, 26 October 2022 (UTC)