Talk:Armed Forces & Society

Article issues/COI
The article contains extensive biographical data on people connected with the journal, which is inappropriate (if notable, this stuff belongs in biographies on those people, not here). Several POV/promotional statements were also added by an editor who, according to his user page, is an editorial assistant of the EIC of this journal (and, inexplicably, also removed several valid wikilinks). As the article was already in a not-too-good state to start with, I did not revert the recent COI edits, but someone knowledgeable of this subject should edit this article (preferably after consulting the guide to writing journal articles linked to in the WPJournals banner) to clean it up and improve it to a more acceptable state. --Crusio (talk) 22:33, 11 May 2011 (UTC)


 * I am new to this so I appreciate your input. However, your comments are ambiguous and don't help me to address any errors I may have made. I am not clear on a couple of points you made. First, you said that I included extensive biographical data on people connected with the journal. Are you referring to Shields, as well as Janowitz? In the case of Shields, I do not see how adding one dependent clause describing the work position of the editor of the journal is extensive. However, I did think that a note on Janowitz's work would be important since Janowitz created the journal and his philosophy seems to have influenced its direction. But, if that needs to be reserved for an article about Janowitz, that's understandable. Second, what are the promotional statements that I made? I am simply trying to add more information about this journal since it seemed very small. One of the ways that I attempted to do this was by describing the literature about this journal in greater detail, you will notice however that I relied only on the source material. Third, I removed links such as "sex," in "co-author sex" because it seemed irrelevant, unnecessary, and distracting. I also removed "links" that did not yet exist, since they don't exist yet. Finally, I would just like to point out wiki's advice on identity disclosure and conflict of interest, "do not use a voluntarily disclosed conflict of interest as a weapon against the editor."


 * Please clarify your issues with my edits with examples so that I can make any appropriate changes. Thank you. T.Whetsell (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 02:31, 12 May 2011 (UTC).


 * Please read WP:COI beyond "do not use a voluntarily disclosed conflict of interest as a weapon against the editor." I have edited the article to conform more to hat is usual for journal articles. I'm not very happy yet with the section on "studies of the journal", but for the moment I have removed the tags. --Crusio (talk) 05:37, 12 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Ok, I read the rest of the COI. I don't think there is any problem here. If there is anything specific you would like me to look at, please indicate. Thank you for removing the tags. What is it that you are not happy with about the studies of the journal part? T.Whetsell (talk) 13:35, 12 May 2011 (UTC)


 * I took out some of the references to Janowitz as well as some other language that may have appeared too promotional. Please indicate if further changes will be necessary.T.Whetsell (talk)