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This page was created following a discussion which took place during March/April of 2022 on #REDIRECT Talk:Romantic orientation under the "Aromanticism Expansions" section. The topic of discussion was whether a standalone "Aromanticism" article should be made; it was decided that, although an article may be warranted in the future if/when more peer reviewed scholarly sources relating to aromanticism are published, such an article is not yet warranted.

As such, this page will be kept as a regularly updated list of sources on aromanticism so that, in the future, it will be easy to gauge the current availability of reliable sources on aromanticism and determine if/when there are enough scholarly sources published to warrant an article. This list will also ensure that said sources will be readily available to any editors who have use for them, whether on an "Aromanticism" page, if one is created in the future, or on a related page such as Romantic orientation or List of fictional aromantic characters.

The rules for adding content to this page are as follows:

Aromanticism As Separate from the Asexual Community
These are scholarly sources wherein aromanticism outside the asexual community is discussed/studied and/or the aromantic community is clearly and/or explicitly shown or described to be its own entity, and not inherently a subset of asexuality or the asexual community. (Note: Extra “sub-sources” may also be included here as asides in order to provide additional clarification; however, these “sub-sources” are not scholarly sources and are mainly here to add clarification/context that may aid in understanding of the scholarly sources).

Preprints
Note: Preprints are not reliable sources since they are scholarly works which have yet to be peer reviewed. This section is included so that editors may keep track of preprints so that useful preprint sources can be potentially moved to Aromanticism As Separate from the Asexual Community or Aromanticism Within the Asexual Community following peer review and publication in a reputable journal. These sources should not be cited if/until they have been re-published following peer review.

Conditionally Reliable Sources
These are sources which are not generally reliable but may be reliable under certain contexts or for certain purposes. For example, if a celebrity makes a twitter post coming out as aromantic, this source would be included here since it is reliable within a certain context (specifically, it is reliable if cited to prove the claim that the celebrity in question identifies as aromantic) even though the source is not generally reliable.

These sources should be used with caution, if at all.

Historical Sources
This table is for historical sources relevant to the topic of aromanticism. Sources listed here should fall into one of two categories: sources which explicitly describe important events relating to the history/formation of the aromantic community (e.g. sources on information such as who designed the first aromantic pride flag, when the word "aromantic" was coined, etc.) and sources which describe historical instances prior to the coining of the word "aromantic" which are comparable (and have elsewhere been compared) to aromanticism. When discussing sources in the latter category, persons described in the source should not be labelled as aromantic, since they did not self-identify as such, so labelling them as aromantic would constitute personal conjecture.