User talk:Aroundthewayboy

Sex work task force[edit]

Hi, welcome to the Sex work task force, it will be good to have some new blood participating.

On a separate note regarding your recent edit on Procuring (prostitution), the normal procedure for citing journal articles is to use a DOI number (which gets processed into a link when the ref is published) rather than a url. Personally, I don't see anything wrong with using the url, but you might find your edit gets reverted by others who think a url to a journal is the end of the world.

Cheers --John B123 (talk) 18:43, 8 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,thanks! I thought I was being useful tracking down an actual copy of the article oops. Well, I'll add the doi, and then there will be both! Aroundthewayboy (talk) 19:25, 8 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Time sink[edit]

Hello and thanks for your comments! I agree with you. On another point, I'm sure you know this but there are five million plus pages on Wikipedia. When I come across editors who are generally just interested in Wikpedia as a battleground, I just unwatch the page and move on to something more productive. Just some friendly advice. It's a time sink to indulge them.ThatMontrealIP (talk) 17:01, 24 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thanks. Yeah, I got caught up in a "debate" with a really toxic editor. Time to disengage! Aroundthewayboy (talk) 17:45, 24 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Primary sources[edit]

Regarding this, I want to make sure you understand what a primary source is. See WP:Primary sources.

If you reply, please reply here on your talk page instead of at mine. No need to WP:Ping me. I'll check back. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 07:08, 23 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hm, thanks, but could you clarify what you're suggesting? I think that page is unfortunately not very helpful, since it suggests that an academic source could be either primary or secondary, depending on the context. To me, the three academic articles in that gender binary section seem more like secondary sources in this context, but I'm definitely open to other interpretations! Aroundthewayboy (talk) 14:14, 24 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I asked because the "One study" text is supported by a primary source. I don't understand how the WP:Primary sources policy isn't very helpful. The link I pointed to goes over what primary, secondary and tertiary sources are. Do you find WP:SCHOLARSHIP more helpful?

Anyway, I agree that the tag isn't needed just to address that one piece in the section. The last piece in the section is, after all, supported by this review. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 07:04, 27 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

If you're suggesting putting up a primary source tag, I would support that. I removed the tag because I thought it was originally motivated by since-deleted content, but maybe you're right that it's still applicable. I do think that whole section is borderline original research and definitely not NPOV. At the very least it could be more balanced since it is ignoring all the research that does not take that perspective. Aroundthewayboy (talk) 14:14, 27 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Please do have a look at article Draft:Avret Pazary. If you feel interested pl. do support in expansion of the same. Thanks Bookku (talk) 05:37, 19 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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External academic review and publication of Wikipedia pages[edit]

Hi ATWB, In case you'd not come across it before, I thought I'd message to ask whether there are any wikipedia articles that you'd be interested in creating/updating/overhauling and submitting for external, academic peer review.

The WikiJournal of Science (www.wikijsci.org) couples the rigour of academic peer review with the extreme reach of the encyclopedia. For existing Wikipedia articles, it's a great way to get additional feedback from external experts. Peer-reviewed articles are dual-published both as standard academic PDFs, as well as having changes integrated back into Wikipedia. This improves the scientific accuracy of the encyclopedia, and rewards authors with citable, indexed publications. It also provides much greater reach than is normally achieved through traditional scholarly publishing.

Note that we have to publish under real names, so if you don't want your real name associated to your username, you may have to choose a topic that your username has not previously edited.

Anyway, let me know whether you'd be interested in putting an article through academic peer review (either solo, or with a team of coauthors).

All the best, Thomas T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)^talk 05:30, 2 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks! Have a great day. Aroundthewayboy (talk) 19:25, 22 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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