User talk:Gabbymcgearyy

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:33, 3 October 2022 (UTC)

October 2022

Welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions, but in one of your recent edits to Exploitation of women in mass media, it appears that you have added original research, which is against Wikipedia's policies. Original research refers to material—such as facts, allegations, ideas, and personal experiences—for which no reliable, published sources exist; it also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources. I understand how you might feel on a specific topic, however, Wikipedia is an Encyclopedic site, not a talk forum. Activism and politics should be presented not as arguments but rather as an overview of a particular stance. Wikipedia does not allow political commentary in articles. If you wish to share this information you must find a source, format the information in an encyclopedic way, and not present a single side. Please ensure that ou have read the Guidelines, and Neutral Point of view Toast (talk) 17:32, 19 October 2022 (UTC)

@Gabbymcgearyy - remember that everything you add to Wikipedia need to be supported by reliable sources, preferably scholarly ones. Your addition to the article didn't include any sources at all. You should revisit the Adding citations training module for a reminder how to do that.

The other issue is that you need to write in a tone that matches the rest of Wikipedia. This includes using precise language and writing as neutrally as possible. For example, you wrote

Women have been targeted in music videos a lot throughout time. Studies were done to see the correlation between watching sexual music videos and people's attitudes following those actions. Many actions have been taken after watching these types of explicit videos. The more the videos were observed, the more the attitudes got worse.

• Music videos have only existed since ~1970s, so "throughout time" isn't accurate. It's also far too vague for a Wikipedia article.
• "Studies were done to see the correlation" - When you're writing for Wikipedia, you need to front-load the information. Start with the main take-home message - few readers care about how the conclusions were drawn, and those ones will read past the topline message. Also individual studies are the weakest place to draw inferences from - reviews that draw general conclusions from many studies are much more valuable. Finally, "studies were done" is mostly filler of the kind you don't need to include, and correlations in particular are just correlations - they don't address the underlying causes.
• "Many actions have been taken" - again, what actions? Standing up and walking to the kitchen, or going outside and harassing women? This is important.
• "The more the videos were observed, the more the attitudes got worse" - you've shifted from "attitudes", to "actions" and then back to "attitudes" without an explanation, and you still haven't provided insight on the nature of these attitudes or actions.

Males and females of the white race were exposed to different videos of black female artists. These videos were for music videos that were either love or rap. They were described as exciting them. They went through a whole experiment for this certain test. This experiment was on black and white women in the media. There were different images projected on the slides. Each slide had a different woman on it. They did a pre-test without music and the images and or videos. There is an effect on people when there is added music or videos. There was more of an effect when there were black women on the screen than white women on the screen. There were not any good evaluations of women when there was explicit music but there were no comments when there was a white woman on the screen. There were no good observations of black women when there were specific sexual images on the screen.

• This seems to be the methods section of a study. That doesn't belong in Wikipedia.
• You should avoid referring to people as "males and females". It's fine as an adjective, but it's frequently seen as degrading and dehumanising when used as a noun
• "of the white race" - race in humans is a socially constructed category, and you should be careful how you use it. In formal writng, saying "the [x] race" is also fairly archaic.
• "music videos that were either love or rap" - these are non-overlapping categories. "Love songs and rap music are a distinct categories in popular music, but "love" and "rap" are not. It's important to be precise.

Black women should not be targeted during music videos and things like it. They should not be sexualized just because of their gender. They definitely should not be sexualized for their race. You see more and more of this day by day and it is just giving a bad wrap on women of color. They should not be discriminated against or looked at differently just because of their race. There definitely needs to be more of a mix of the races when it comes to music videos. Black women should not be the only ones that are getting hated, for how they act in a music video. It would be the same if they had a white woman doing the same thing. Black women should not have to be the ones to make the video more explicit. It should be equal across the board. Women shouldn't have to be used for anything, not even a music video. People should be able to make music videos without having to use black women to spice it up.

While I agree strongly with the sentiments expressed here, these are opinions. You can include opinions if you attribute them, but you can't make absolute statements about right or wrong in Wikipedia's voice. You can't include arguments either, nor ideals ("it should be"). Wikipedia is supposed to report what reliable sources say about subjects, not make the case for an outcome. Done right, you can often make a better case simply using the facts, and reach people who may not agree with you to begin with. When you tell people what they should do, they often get defensive and stop listening. When you present them with the facts, they are often more open to listening. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:24, 19 October 2022 (UTC)