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:: Having reviewed the section, I don't think there is cause for concern about the usefulness of the whole section: on close inspection, only the last paragraph appears to be cited to "random" Twitter users, with most other statements linked to essays and the like, which are very much acceptable sources for this sort of thing. But that doesn't mean you aren't right to flag potential misuse of the section to give undue weight to individual Twitterites, yes. If it becomes necessary to use tweets to cite "fan opinions" (as opposed to the opinions of specific people of interest), a minimum requirement should be to have multiple people saying the same thing, thus forming a sample of evidence that this is an opinion shared by a wider group of people. The statmeents currently cited to individual tweets should either be edited to be better-sourced, or removed. | :: Having reviewed the section, I don't think there is cause for concern about the usefulness of the whole section: on close inspection, only the last paragraph appears to be cited to "random" Twitter users, with most other statements linked to essays and the like, which are very much acceptable sources for this sort of thing. But that doesn't mean you aren't right to flag potential misuse of the section to give undue weight to individual Twitterites, yes. If it becomes necessary to use tweets to cite "fan opinions" (as opposed to the opinions of specific people of interest), a minimum requirement should be to have multiple people saying the same thing, thus forming a sample of evidence that this is an opinion shared by a wider group of people. The statmeents currently cited to individual tweets should either be edited to be better-sourced, or removed. | ||
:: All that being said, as a side- | :: All that being said, as a side-note… this isn't really relevant to the main thrust of the discussion, but it really isn't the done thing to question/ask people to "prove" that they are a member of the queer community. Queerness is a matter of self-identification, so by definition, someone identifying themselves as gay, genderqueer, etc. should be understood to be, and treated as such, incontrovertibly, until such a time as they themselves state otherwise. <span style="color: #baa3d6;font-family:Comic Sans;">[[User:Scrooge MacDuck|'''Scrooge MacDuck''']]</span> <span style="color: #baa3d6;">[[User_talk:Scrooge MacDuck|⊕]]</span> 23:26, 16 March 2022 (UTC) | ||
