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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in some of the articles related to pedophilia.

This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page.

For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices.

Title

WikiProject Pedophilia Article Watch

Alerts

There's an RfC at Lolicon re the link to the Renchan lolicon board. It hasn't been drawing much outside comment, though. Herostratus 08:40, 20 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Project news

Pedophilia has been generating a lot of text on the mailing list in April, mostly generated by events around the Lolicon article and the LS Studios article. Herostratus 17:32, 20 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Scope

The purpose of this project is to get articles on the subject out of protection, disputation, and tagged status and create excellent, encyclopedic articles which have broad consensus and may remain stable.

(Editors who are interested in paraphilae in general or in a particular paraphilia are invited to join and expand the scope of this project if they wish.)

Articles under consideration

Tools

File:Icon paw logo2.jpgShow recent changes to watchlist articles


  • View/edit the watchlist.
  • Contributions by editor - view article history sorted by editor rather than chronologically. This allows all the edits to a given article by a given editor to be seen at once.
  • Cat scan - view recent changes to all articles in a given Category.
  • Duesentrieb's category tree - enhanced Category viewing, easily see parents and subcategories of a Category and the articles in them.

Parentage

Wikipedia:WikiProject Sociology (inactive)

Participants

Goals

  1. Achieve, to the extent possible, a scholarly, generally agreed-upon, scientifically accurate, culturally accurate, and clear terminology to be used in pedophilia/childlove-related articles.
  2. Edit selected articles concerning pedophilia (see "Articles under consideration", above) to achieve an accurate, verified, NPOV state.

Subprojects

(none at this time)

Tasks

  1. Ongoing: develop an agreed-upon stable sourced terminology. See Terminology section, Terminology subpage for details.
  2. See "Articles under consideration", above.

Subpages

  • /Watchlist - artificial watchlist.
  • /Terminology - for expansions and examples of terms defined in the Terminology section of this main project page, and for drafts-for-review of new terms and changes to existing definition. Discussion specifically about terms and definitions should go on the talk page of that page.
  • Project talk Talk page for this project page -- for general overall project issues.
  • Draft Rewrite of Pedophilia article, but mostly for style. Drafted around 2/6/06.

Templates

This article is part of a WikiProject to improve Wikipedia's articles related to Pedophilia. For guidelines see Wikipedia:WikiProject Pedophilia Article Watch and Wikipedia:Contributing FAQ.

Place template at the top of the talk page of an article that you wish to include in the project by copying in this line:

{{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject Pedophilia Article Watch/WikiProjectNotice}}

Then list the article on this project page, under Articles under consideration above.

Terminology

These represent current working definitions. Refer to the Terminology subpage for more detail.

Child

"The term "child" does not have a single generally agreed-upon scientific or scholarly definition and might be used in different contexts to cover different age ranges. Therefore its use in articles is deprecated, and where possible the following terms should be used:

  • A minor is person under the age of legal adulthood, and the term may be taken to mean a person under the age of 18, unless specified otherwise, since 18 is the age of legal adulthood the the overwhelming majority of jurisdictions.
  • A pre-adolescent child is a child who has not entered adolescence. Since there is no single point at which this occurs, and since the onset of adolescence varies among persons, the term is generally taken as more-or-less congruent with "pre-teen", that is to describe a person who has not yet achieved his or her 13th birthday.
  • When the term "child" alone is used for convenience (as in article titles) or to avoid stylistic awkwardness, editors should make an effort to clarify which age range they are speaking about, at least on the first use, unless this is clearly obvious from the context.

Paedophile is the spelling used by the World Health Organization and is thus slightly preferred, although either spelling is acceptable in articles.

  • Paedophilia - One suggested working definition: "Paedophilia is the attraction to children which is experienced as being so important that it dominates the person's inner sexual or romantic life." See the article Pedophile for a similar, but more medical and more detailed, definition.
  • Paedophile: One who has paedophilia.
  • Childlover (or "girlover" or "boylover"): terms preferred by some paedophiles for self-identification.
  • Pedosexual: term used when positing pedophilia as a third major division of sexual orientation, along with heterosexual and homosexual. Neither the concept nor term are generally accepted, and use of the term for scholarly purposes is discouraged.
  • Persons commonly called paedophiles who are not paedophiles for scholarly encyclopedic purposes:
    • Ephebophile: [One who has] "A sexual or romantic preference for, or especial attraction to, adolescents." It is idiomatically common, but not scholarly, to call such persons paedophiles.
    • Pederast: a male homosexual Ephebophile. It is idiomatically common, but not scholarly, to call such persons paedophiles.
    • Child sex criminal, also called "child sex offender", "child sex abuser", or "child molester" (the latter term being deprecated for scholarly use). Some child sex criminals are also paedophiles, but not necessarily. It is idiomatically common, but not scholarly, to call all such persons paedophiles.

Potential resources. List anything of likely use. Listing something here doesn't imply that the material in the article is necessarily correct or germane.

(Add appropriate links as known - many of the above articles also contain links. Presence of a link does not imply that project members warrant its veracity or usefullness.)

Papers

  • "Pedophilia and Temporal Lobe Disturbances" in the Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, Winter 2000, page 71-76.
  • D. Finkelhor, S. Araji: Explanations of pedophilia: A four factor model. Journal of Sex Research 22:2 (1986), pp. 141-161. (concerning cause)
  • K. Freund, R. Watson, R. Dickey: Does sexual abuse in childhood cause pedophilia: an exploratory study. Archives of Sexual Behavior 19:6 (1990), pp. 557-568. (abstract; concerning cause)
  • S. Gordon: Predisposing factors in pedophilia. Dissertations Abstracts International 50:7, 1989. (concerning cause)
  • V.L. Quinsey, M.E. Rice, G.T. Harris, K.S. Reid: The phylogenetic and ontogenetic development of sexual age preference in males: conceptual and measurement issues. In: H.E. Barbaree, W.L. Marshall, S.M. Hudson (eds.): The juvenile sex offender. New York: The Guildford Press, 1993, pp. 143-163. (concerning cause)
  • P. Wright, J. Nobrega, R. Langevin, G. Wortzman: Brain Density and Symmetry in Pedophilic and Sexually Aggressive Offenders. Annals of Sex Research 3 (1990), pp. 319-328.
  • Cantor JM, Klassen PE, Dickey R, Christensen BK, Kuban ME, Blak T, Williams NS, Blanchard R: Handedness in pedophilia and hebephilia. Archives of Sexual Behavior, August 2005, 34(4):447-59 (abstract)
  • Briere J, Runtz M (1989). University males' sexual interest in children: predicting potential indices of "pedophilia" in a nonforensic sample. (abstract; survery of undergraduates concerning admitted attraction to children)

Other resources

New Wikipedia articles related to Wikipedia:WikiProject Pedophilia Article Watch

Please feel free to list your new Pedophila-related articles here

Wikipedia surveys

Ad hoc surveys

Ongoing Wikipedia surveys

Votes for deletion

Requests

Archives

(Note: due to editor error the actual page history for this page from January 20 2006 to February 7 2006, not of any especial interest, is at User:Herostratus/Pedophilia, which is now a redirect page.)

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