Talk:Sex, Sin, and Blasphemy/Archive 1

Created
Created new article on this book about freedom of speech and censorship.

Still in the process of additional research.

Exhausted sources from database archive NewsBank, next on to LexisNexis.

Cheers,

&mdash; Cirt (talk) 08:43, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

Notices posted
Posted notices about this new article creation, to the following talk pages:

&mdash; Cirt (talk) 09:00, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
 * 1) Wikipedia talk:WikiProject United States Public Policy
 * 2) Wikipedia talk:WikiProject United States
 * 3) Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Psychology
 * 4) Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Sociology
 * 5) Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Sexology and sexuality
 * 6) Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Media
 * 7) Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mass surveillance
 * 8) Wikipedia talk:WikiProject LGBT studies
 * 9) Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Literature
 * 10) Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Law
 * 11) Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Journalism
 * 12) Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Freedom of speech
 * 13) Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Human rights
 * 14) Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Books
 * 15) User talk:Cirt

Nominated for GA
I've nominated this article for review at WP:GAN as a candidate for Good Article quality.

Cheers,

&mdash; Cirt (talk) 10:48, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

Drive-by comment
I was perusing through the GAN list like I normally do, and the last sentence of the lead really confused me: "American Book Review criticized the author's objectivity and her absolute take on the freedom of speech rights afforded U.S. citizens by the First Amendment."

What I take that sentence to mean is that American Book Review criticized the author for being objective, rather than criticizing her for not being objective. I don't think that's what you're trying to say here. How about "cast doubt on her objectivity", "questioned her objectivity", "criticized the author's lack of objectivity", or something along those lines?

Also, I'm also confused by what her "absolute take" on the First Amendment means. I assume the review in question thinks she indiscriminately believes that the First Amendment is sacrosanct in all circumstances. Perhaps something along the lines of "American Book Review criticizes her for believing that the right to free speech is always more important than the public interest" would be clearer. AmericanLemming (talk) 07:59, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
 * ✅, copy edited, per above suggestion, thank you. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 15:57, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

Additonal book reviews

 * Book reviews

Might try to track down text of some of these above book reviews. I was able to find the full citations for them, but not the actual texts of the reviews, yet. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 09:12, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Of the lot, the only one that appears to be digitized is the last one, on JSTOR (link). Give the rest a go in your library and I'll bat cleanup for those you can't find Eye close font awesome.svg czar  ♔  06:45, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Okay sounds good, thank you! &mdash; Cirt (talk) 06:46, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

Promoted to GA quality
This article had a GA review and was successfully promoted to WP:GA quality. Review is at Talk:Sex, Sin, and Blasphemy: A Guide to America's Censorship Wars/GA1. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 03:24, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

Requested Copy Edit
I've requested a copy edit for this article from the Guild of Copy Editors, more info at WP:GOCE. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 19:11, 2 May 2014 (UTC)