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Rugby edit

I have added some information to expand this sub-section, please feel free to correct if you find any errors. You can also message me if you have questions. Darwin Naz (talk) 05:34, 12 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Child-friendship controversy

A few weeks ago, I noticed that the quite substantial section headed ‘Controversies and mysteries’ was not reflected in the lede. Since the lede is meant to summarise the article, I appended a short para, referencing the claims about close friendships with children, adding that these claims had also been quite credibly refuted.

This para was deleted by 184.69.174.194 because they felt it was dangerous to use the word ‘pedophile’ without a cite. Since the word ‘paedophilia’ occurs twice in the main text, I would have thought that their critical attention should have been directed on that part of the article. However, I took the point, and replaced it with a short, discreet statement that seemed unexceptionable: Recent speculation about the nature of his relationships with children has foundered on lack of evidence.

This was promptly deleted by Johnuniq with the following comment: It makes no sense to say "Recent" in an article (what does it mean?); is this a summary of text in the article?. Yes, it certainly is a summary of text in the article. That was why I inserted it. And ‘Recent’ just means what it says: the article states that the controversy started to bulk-up in the late 20th century. And by now, the topic has plainly become an inseparable part of any research into this author. If he was quibbling with ‘how recent is recent?’, I could have understood his deletion of that word, but I don't see how it justifies deletion of the whole statement. Valetude (talk) 00:01, 16 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Didn't he say "I like all children, except boys"? I can't remember where or when, but it sounds like him. Se non e vero, e ben trovato Seadowns (talk) 13:01, 26 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Alice/Alice Liddell identification issue in opening para

The opening paragraph of the article currently has this sentence

Alice Liddell, daughter of the Dean of Christ Church, Henry Liddell, is widely identified as the original for Alice in Wonderland, though Carroll always denied this.

This doesn't belong in the opening paragraph, it should be with the material relating to the Alice books, if it needs to be in the article at all.

Guyal of Sfere (talk) 18:33, 23 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

What you call the ‘opening paragraph’ is the lede section, which is meant to summarise the article as a whole. The issue of Alice’s origins is duly covered in the article, and it is a major debating point, of enduring interest to the public at large. Valetude (talk) 08:58, 24 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Something about photos

New user ‎User:DarwinGalileiHerschelHuygens is dumping a bunch of sources about photos; many of them are blogs. The actual text they're adding to the article doesn't seem connected to the rest of the section, nor does it convey much from the sources. I am opening this discussion in the hopes that they explain what they're trying to accomplish instead of edit-warring. --JBL (talk) 22:01, 17 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

No, of course I don't want to get into an edit war; all I want to do is make an edit.

The external links section contained a link to a site which presented a hoax as if it were an authentic 19th century photograph; specifically, two photos, one of a grown man and the other of a seven-year-old girl, were photoshopped together in such a way that they appear to be inappropriately kissing. My latest edit is an attempt at compromise; I deleted the link to the spurious site, without adding text or sources of my own.

I should add that there are any number of other sources on this article which I do not agree with, but which I have made no attempt to delete. The difference is that they are not based on hoaxes. One is entitled to one's own opinions, but not one's own facts. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DarwinGalileiHerschelHuygens (talk • contribs) 22:56, 17 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your explanation -- I doubt very much that anyone will object to your most recent edit! --JBL (talk) 23:13, 17 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

You're very welcome. Unfortunately, someone just restored the link. Again. DarwinGalileiHerschelHuygens (talk) 00:02, 18 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]