User talk:DruP

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Thank you for taking a look over the yaoi article and for adding those references - I don't have any access to the US-Japan Women's Journal, and it's exciting to think that a real academic is looking at the Wikipedia article. If you wish to continue contributing with your own work, (please do!) the policies which are about that are "no original research", especially the citing oneself part of that, and "verifiability", especially the self-published sources part of that. "Neutral point of view" may also be worth a look, as on Wikipedia we're meant to record, not take sides. Doesn't always work like that, but that's the ideal.

I'm a bit shy about this, but please can you clarify a couple of things from your edits? Firstly, the footnote that we currently have in the article (from a Japanese dictionary) seems to say that BL is a subgenre of yaoi, but you say that it's correctly the other way around. This is a bit embarrassing, but could you please provide a reliable, non-fringe source for yaoi being the subgenre of BL? Secondly, is there anything particularly deep and meaningful about the reiteration of "in English" here: "but in English it has come to be applied to the entire genre in English"? I think it would sound better without the second "in English", but as I'm not sure if that would significantly change the meaning from the original paper or not.

With McLelland's assertation you removed that the bulk of yaoi manga is doujinshi, is that wrong because it's outdated, or is it wrong for some other reason? I'd be happier about its removal if someone were to deconstruct that assertion properly, so the article could say "McLelland said this, but so-and-so says that" (which is one way of trying to achieve a neutral point of view). I liked your blog entry on Australyaoi because it hints at Global BL beginning to march to its own drum, and the process BL undergoes to be published in America and that's something that I haven't really seen in the further reading sources yet. Are you aware of any literature out there which touches on those same themes, but would be a better source? I'm also curious to know what you think the gaps and weaknesses in the yaoi article are, aside from the ongoing saga of definition and redefinition. Please feel free to contact me via my user talk page if you have any questions. Thank you, and welcome! -Malkinann (talk) 04:29, 18 July 2008 (UTC)