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On 22nd January I wrote a piece on 'Folk devils'. I was trying to help and to put a useful text where there was none. Somebody called, 'Ihcoyc' deleted my whole text and put his/her own there instead. 'Ihcoyc' made a good contribution. It was better than mine. Despite this I would like to ask, 'Why did 'Ihcoyc' deleat my whole work?' I've restored the greater part of my text and added a bit to it. I think my text improves the article.
Barbara Shack.
Having read the before and after sections, I would say that your text wasn't exactly deleted. It was just rewritten to fit in with the style of the Wikipedia. This is normal behaviour for contributors to the Wikipedia and you should expect it unless you try to write in the Wikipedia style. You can find out how to do this by reading the tutorial articles on style.
Since you have now added your original text back in to the article, it is now repeating itself on some points and consequently you should expect that people will edit it to remove the repetition and to make it fit in with the Wikipedia style once more. Please don't worry about it. This happens to every one of us and it generally leads to better articles. The inportant thing is that your original facts remain. -- Derek Ross
The article seems to be quite substantial now, is the stub note really still warranted? -- Kizor 13:21, 14 Apr 2004 (UTC)
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Can any sociologists confirm if the term is used in any other context at all? Both of the external links refer to it specifically as Cohen's invention, and all the other references I can find are quotes of this article. If the term was used only by Cohen, or even if it is used generally by sociologists but not elsewhere, the article should say so in the first paragraph. Securiger 09:09, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I thought a folk devil was something like the chupacabra or the Jersey devil. - Branddobbe 07:28, Jan 12, 2005 (UTC)
I'd like to add the current moral panics re:ayslum seekers and Roma in the UK to the list. I'm aware that this could be my POV so adding it here first. Secretlondon 02:36, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
There is no German word like "Volksteufel", appropriate terms for folk devil could perhaps be (in a sociological meaning) "Außenseiter" (outsider) or "Sündenbock" (scapegoat). Who put this very bad translation into the article? - Andreas 05:28, Sept 14, 2007 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.233.218.135 ( talk) 15:23, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
I removed the To Catch a Predator reference, because it made no sense in the context of this subject. Folk devil refers to a group that is maligned as criminal, not an actual group of criminals. Snookumz ( talk) 02:41, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
--- I noticed the ending references to the Catholic Church, and frankly it sounded anti-Catholic, biased, and prejudiced. We could similarly present many more sources that argue the opposite: That the secularized media and opponents of the Church have tried to use the sex scandal as a means to vilify the Church and turn it into a "folk devil". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.255.142.50 ( talk) 11:49, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
Beyond folk devil resistance: Linking moral panic and moral regulation (July 2011)
The Drug Addict as a Folk Devil (1977)
Deviance "Down under" or How a Deviance Assignment Became a "Folk Devil" (Oct 1993)
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On 22nd January I wrote a piece on 'Folk devils'. I was trying to help and to put a useful text where there was none. Somebody called, 'Ihcoyc' deleted my whole text and put his/her own there instead. 'Ihcoyc' made a good contribution. It was better than mine. Despite this I would like to ask, 'Why did 'Ihcoyc' deleat my whole work?' I've restored the greater part of my text and added a bit to it. I think my text improves the article.
Barbara Shack.
Having read the before and after sections, I would say that your text wasn't exactly deleted. It was just rewritten to fit in with the style of the Wikipedia. This is normal behaviour for contributors to the Wikipedia and you should expect it unless you try to write in the Wikipedia style. You can find out how to do this by reading the tutorial articles on style.
Since you have now added your original text back in to the article, it is now repeating itself on some points and consequently you should expect that people will edit it to remove the repetition and to make it fit in with the Wikipedia style once more. Please don't worry about it. This happens to every one of us and it generally leads to better articles. The inportant thing is that your original facts remain. -- Derek Ross
The article seems to be quite substantial now, is the stub note really still warranted? -- Kizor 13:21, 14 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Quote from article:
Can any sociologists confirm if the term is used in any other context at all? Both of the external links refer to it specifically as Cohen's invention, and all the other references I can find are quotes of this article. If the term was used only by Cohen, or even if it is used generally by sociologists but not elsewhere, the article should say so in the first paragraph. Securiger 09:09, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I thought a folk devil was something like the chupacabra or the Jersey devil. - Branddobbe 07:28, Jan 12, 2005 (UTC)
I'd like to add the current moral panics re:ayslum seekers and Roma in the UK to the list. I'm aware that this could be my POV so adding it here first. Secretlondon 02:36, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
There is no German word like "Volksteufel", appropriate terms for folk devil could perhaps be (in a sociological meaning) "Außenseiter" (outsider) or "Sündenbock" (scapegoat). Who put this very bad translation into the article? - Andreas 05:28, Sept 14, 2007 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.233.218.135 ( talk) 15:23, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
I removed the To Catch a Predator reference, because it made no sense in the context of this subject. Folk devil refers to a group that is maligned as criminal, not an actual group of criminals. Snookumz ( talk) 02:41, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
--- I noticed the ending references to the Catholic Church, and frankly it sounded anti-Catholic, biased, and prejudiced. We could similarly present many more sources that argue the opposite: That the secularized media and opponents of the Church have tried to use the sex scandal as a means to vilify the Church and turn it into a "folk devil". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.255.142.50 ( talk) 11:49, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
Beyond folk devil resistance: Linking moral panic and moral regulation (July 2011)
The Drug Addict as a Folk Devil (1977)
Deviance "Down under" or How a Deviance Assignment Became a "Folk Devil" (Oct 1993)