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the humble origins and etymology of many high offices.

Add a link to examples please. Jidanni ( talk) 02:46, 3 June 2022 (UTC) reply

https://www.wpath.org/soc8/chapters

Just sayin... ;) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C5:4229:A601:EDF8:A60A:29E:98AA ( talk) 14:32, 7 November 2022 (UTC) reply

I removed this edit: [1] as a potential copyvio. I have now come to the conclusion that, in fact, the book that publishes this text on the Internet probably contains unattributed copying from Wikipedia and as such there is no copyvio from that source. The edit does fall foul of WP:COPYWITHIN. It is copied from page history of another article on Wikipedia without attribution. It also had some other issues (not least that one statement had 40... yes, 40, sources cited. See WP:OVERCITE). As a copywithin, the text was not well suited to this page so please do not put it back in without discussion and a consensus here. Sirfurboy🏄 ( talk) 08:06, 17 January 2024 (UTC) reply

This portion seems to be back. The incredible number of citations caught my eye. 192.80.99.212 ( talk) 05:56, 13 February 2024 (UTC) reply

Thanks. I have removed it again. Sirfurboy🏄 ( talk) 08:25, 13 February 2024 (UTC) reply

I see that some sections (China, Viet nam, Egypt… barely, Byzantine) make explicit reference to the penis getting cut (emasculation), but others do not currently mention whether we are dealing with testicles or the whole shebang.

One medical source https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/84/12/4324/2864451 uses a castrati/spadones/thlibiae classification following a certain Penzer (1936). I doubt the terminology is good enough, especially considering "castrati" has a different meaning in later times. Artoria 2e5 🌉 11:24, 25 February 2024 (UTC) reply