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Purging disorder is studied far less often than anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa as it is not considered an independent diagnosis in the DSM-5, published in 2013. Because of this,little information is known about the risk factors for purging disorder, including how gender, race, and class could contribute to the risk for purging disorder. As with most eating disorders, it is suggested that purging disorder is gender specific because of cultural forces and social pressures. These social pressures are associated with a severe preoccupation with shape and weight, this puts women and transgendered individuals at the most risk for eating disorders, including purging disorder In one study of the risk factors for purging disorder 77% of the participants who presented with symptoms of purging disorder were female Purging disorder progressing into bulimia nervosa has been observed, while it is extremely rare for the reverse situation, bulimia nervosa progressing into purging disorder. This was observed once in a transgendered patient with a severe history of bulimia nervosa but presented with symptoms of purging disorder to an eating disorder treatment facility in New Zealand

Remove: “Research indicates that purging disorder may be as common as bulimia nervosa or anorexia nervosa in women”

replace with: Research indicates that purging disorder, while note rare, is not as commonly found as anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa.

 Proposed changes for Purging Disorder 

I plan to add sources to the information already on the page. There is quite a bit of information that seems to be common knowledge but still needs to be attached to a source. Adding to the definition of purging disorder with source will help give the page a foundation for people that want to know exactly what purging disorder is. I plan to use the article "The validity and clinical utility of purging disorder." to do this effectively as this article contains a good definition of purging disorder and the specific criteria that constitute it as an eating disorder. I also want to replace one of the sources that is already on the page as it is an NBC news page and not an actual academic article. On the page, different symptoms of purging disorder are listed and cited to this NBC page, while the information might be correct it could be traced back to a much more reliable source that is peer reviewed.

Google Scholar research
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/eat.20893/full

Giorgio A. Tasca PhD, Hilary Maxwell BA, Meagan Bone MA, Anne Trinneer MA, Louise Balfour PhD, Hany Bissada MD. 10 February 2011. "Purging disorder: Psychopathology and treatment outcomes." International Journal of Eating Disorders, vol 45, pp. 36–42.

My Article
I chose to work on Purging disorder for my Wikipedia project. This article seems to have some good information in it but lacks a lot of citation. I hope to work on adding those in text citations as well as adding to the information already on the page.

Article Evaluation
I found the article Female Body Shape to be a fascinating look into the Wikipedia world through the eyes of a Wikipedia editor. First, I would question the need for this article all together. There is already a Body shape article on Wikipedia. If this article was purely about the social, cultural, and artistic aspects of the female body it would be more appropriate, but a large portion of the article is a collection of biological facts about female bodies, this is information that might be more useful on the Body Shape article. Because of this, the article seems hyper-neutral, like no one wanted to say anything that could even potentially be taken as biased in any way. Of course there will be controversial topics that come up when discussing female body shape, but I think those could be presented in a still-neutral way.

It does seem that there is a large amount of text that goes with a citation in this article. I recognize that this can be difficult information to cite as it is often cultural knowledge and seems like common sense to anyone even though it isn't actually attached to any source. The citations in the article did all work for me and seemed to support what they claimed.

I reviewed the Talk page for this article which was quite eye opening. I think reading a Talk page is a good addition to reading the actual article to get a deeper understanding and lots of different perspectives. Quite a bit of the Talk page for this article seemed to surround the images included (or not included) on the page. I would agree with what quite a few people said on the Talk page that there seems to be a heavy concentration of Victorian and Classical paintings used and very few photographs used. The paintings used don't give a diverse view of female bodies. Bodies of different races, photos/paintings/images for different time periods, and maybe some textbook-type images would be beneficial.

Overall, I'm not a huge fan of how this article is put together. I think an article specifically for the non-biological aspects of female body shape would be more useful. The excessive use of biological facts or meaningless measurements is redundant as this information can be found in many, more relevant, areas.