User:Tony Sandel

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I have tried over the past couple of years to improve the resources available on Wikipedia both on the positive relations that men can have with boys and also the negative ones - the contentious topics of paedophilia/pedophilia, sexual attraction to children and child sexual abuse as portrayed in literature and in movies. My article on positive friendships between men and boys in literature and film‎ was deleted. My articles on pedophilia and child sexual abuse in books, films, the theatre and songs have been criticised, emasculated, argued over and some deleted.

My critics have been mainly editors acting in good faith, but there have been those who are pushing pro-pedophile or anti-pedophile agendas. Unfortunately, few of these editors have contributed anything useful to the articles themselves. Some editors are well read and we have had robust arguments. Others, unfortunately, as can be expected on Wikipedia, are just ignorant on the subject.

I recognise that OR is a problem in all the articles and authoritative third party sources are hard to provide for all the works. It would also be very time consuming. It is for this reason that I have stopped editing these articles. I am in no doubt that 95% of the works listed were correctly listed and their inclusion was NPOV.

When my book on the subject is eventually published, then perhaps we will have an authoritative third party source…

Tony (talk) 19:40, 21 April 2008 (UTC)Tony