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Being a pedophile is not illegal. Pedophilia is an orientation. If a man went and raped 2,000 women would would not call him "the worst heterosexual ever" we would call him the worst rapist ever. This is an example of weasel wording to add bias to an article. Checking the souces none of them even use that exact language. CNN questions if he might be the worst pedophile ever but does not make the statement in a non-question form. I am changing the describtion to what he actually did that was wrong (sexually abuse children) to make this article more balanced and less editorialized. Boilingorangejuice ( talk) 03:59, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
Removed weasel words that attempted to re-frame a legal orientation as a crime. Reworded with what was the intent of the original wording." Changing a quotation is of course a direct breach of MOS:QUOTE and this is a peculiarly egregious change which radically transforms the meaning and effect of the quotation. On Wikipedia, accidental misinformation is not vandalism but this, telling the reader that one thing was said or written when something significantly different was, was done purposefully. Indeed, Boilingorangejuice claimed to be expressing
"the intent of the original wording"as if somehow able to read minds and to discern that "worst pedophile" was a slip of the tongue, an accidental failure to make a distinction which Boilingorangejuice is insisting on. Boilingorangejuice also tried to justify this as changing "
weasel words"; "worst pedophile" is a strong and forthright statement, not weasel words at all. The most weaselly parts of this are Boilingorangejuice's description of pedophilia as a "legal orientation", as if there was some law that had legitimised pedophilia, and contorted logic of arguing that we must not call someone "the worst pedophile" because that implies that pedophilia is a crime. Boilingorangjuice's attempts to "
re-frame" reactions to Earl Bradley are a serious breach of WP:NPOV. NebY ( talk) 16:04, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
I am interested in your motivations behind the reversion", "
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have been editing wikipedia for over ten years". [2] NebY ( talk) 18:37, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
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Being a pedophile is not illegal. Pedophilia is an orientation. If a man went and raped 2,000 women would would not call him "the worst heterosexual ever" we would call him the worst rapist ever. This is an example of weasel wording to add bias to an article. Checking the souces none of them even use that exact language. CNN questions if he might be the worst pedophile ever but does not make the statement in a non-question form. I am changing the describtion to what he actually did that was wrong (sexually abuse children) to make this article more balanced and less editorialized. Boilingorangejuice ( talk) 03:59, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
Removed weasel words that attempted to re-frame a legal orientation as a crime. Reworded with what was the intent of the original wording." Changing a quotation is of course a direct breach of MOS:QUOTE and this is a peculiarly egregious change which radically transforms the meaning and effect of the quotation. On Wikipedia, accidental misinformation is not vandalism but this, telling the reader that one thing was said or written when something significantly different was, was done purposefully. Indeed, Boilingorangejuice claimed to be expressing
"the intent of the original wording"as if somehow able to read minds and to discern that "worst pedophile" was a slip of the tongue, an accidental failure to make a distinction which Boilingorangejuice is insisting on. Boilingorangejuice also tried to justify this as changing "
weasel words"; "worst pedophile" is a strong and forthright statement, not weasel words at all. The most weaselly parts of this are Boilingorangejuice's description of pedophilia as a "legal orientation", as if there was some law that had legitimised pedophilia, and contorted logic of arguing that we must not call someone "the worst pedophile" because that implies that pedophilia is a crime. Boilingorangjuice's attempts to "
re-frame" reactions to Earl Bradley are a serious breach of WP:NPOV. NebY ( talk) 16:04, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
I am interested in your motivations behind the reversion", "
I now understand the motivations behind the revert." So that I can better understand your edits and posts, please can you disclose the account name(s) under which you "
have been editing wikipedia for over ten years". [2] NebY ( talk) 18:37, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
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Could anyone please tell me where to split it?-- Thylacine24 ( talk) 04:09, 28 June 2022 (UTC)