User talk:Ellekiko

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:26, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

Bad sources

Hi. Re this edit: never cite the Daily Mail. This also applies to MailOnline. DS (talk) 16:19, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

Okay. I have a source from the Guardian I will add here. Thanks! Ellekiko (talk) 16:35, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

Another important lesson is to not misinterpret what sources actually say. Read the Guardian's article more carefully, and you'll see that the statements you mentioned, were not actually in reference to TVHC. Furthermore, the scholarly article under discussion didn't mention TVHC at all. DS (talk) 15:12, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

"From The Very Hungry Caterpillar to the Cat in the Hat, Peter Rabbit to Babar, children's books are dominated by male central characters, new research has found, with the gender disparity sending children a message that "women and girls occupy a less important role in society than men or boys". Here is a direct quote from the Guardian article, I will update the section to reflect the disparity and effect reflected here. Thanks! Ellekiko (talk) 15:29, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

I've read the McCabe article now. In order to add the statement criticizing TVHC in the way you've done, you would need to cite a much more specific source making that criticism. As you've done it, it amounts to a violation of WP:SYNTHESIS, as best I can tell. The Guardian article is - by adding specific books not mentioned in the McCabe study - doing what news reporters often do: stretching the story to make it more striking or appealing to their readers. But we're not willing to extend the authority of the scholarly article behind the news story to embellishments made by the reporter. — jmcgnh^{(talk) (contribs)} 03:24, 4 May 2022 (UTC)