Talk:Andrea Dworkin/GA1

GA Reassessment

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Starting GA reassessment. Jezhotwells (talk) 19:57, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Checking against GA criteria

1. It is reasonably well written.

   a (prose):

   b (MoS):

2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.

   a (references):

   • The references are a mixture of in-line citation, Havard and embeded html links. They should be standardized, ideally to in-line citations. The publishers are often missing, e.g. ref #57 The Guardian, #59, #75 NY Times. There is one dead link - ref #50 Wall Street Journal.. several paragraphs are completely un-referenced. Jezhotwells (talk) 20:20, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

• I added sources or removed unsourced material. One link is dead (footnote 63). I can delete the URL and keep the reference to the John Leo article, or I can leave the old URL. Any thoughts? — Malik Shabazz (talk · contribs) 01:37, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
• I think you should delete that ref if you can't find an archived copy. If you have the actula ref saved and can be sure it is the artcile thane remove the url or quote it in a way to say you have verified it.

1. • Dworkin and MacKinnon, however, continued to discuss civil rights litigation as a possible approach to combating pornography. In the fall of 1983, MacKinnon secured a one-semester appointment for Dworkin at the University of Minnesota, to teach a course in literature for the Women's Studies program and co-teach (with MacKinnon) an interdepartmental course on pornography, where they hashed out details of a civil rights approach. With encouragement from community activists in south Minneapolis, the Minneapolis city government hired Dworkin and MacKinnon to draft an antipornography civil rights ordinance as an amendment to the Minneapolis city civil rights ordinance. The amendment defined pornography as a civil rights violation against women, and allowed women who claimed harm from pornography to sue the producers and distributors in civil court for damages. The law was passed twice by the Minneapolis city council but vetoed by Mayor Don Fraser, who considered the wording of the ordinance to be too vague. Another version of the ordinance passed in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1984, but overturned as unconstitutional by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in the case American Booksellers v. Hudnut. needs referencing.
   • In 1992, the Supreme Court of Canada made a ruling in R. v. Butler which incorporated some elements of Dworkin and MacKinnon's legal work on pornography into the existing Canadian obscenity law. In Butler the Court held that Canadian obscenity law violated Canadian citizens' rights to free speech under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms if enforced on grounds of morality or community standards of decency; but that obscenity law could be enforced constitutionally against some pornography on the basis of the Charter's guarantees of sex equality. The Court's decision cited extensively from briefs prepared by the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF), with the support and participation of Catharine MacKinnon. Andrea Dworkin opposed LEAF's position, arguing that feminists should not support or attempt to reform criminal obscenity law. needs referncing.
   • In 1997, Dworkin published a collection of her speeches and articles from the 1990s in Life and Death: Unapologetic Writings on the Continuing War on Women, including a long autobiographical essay on her life as a writer, and articles on violence against women, pornography, prostitution, Nicole Brown Simpson, the use of rape during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Montreal massacre, Israel, and the gender politics of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. needs refrencing.
   • Dworkin authored ten books of radical feminist theory and numerous speeches and articles, each designed to assert the presence of and denounce institutionalized and normalized harm against women. She became one of the most influential writers and spokeswomen of American radical feminism during the late 1970s and the 1980s. She characterized pornography as an industry of damaging objectification and abuse, not merely a fantasy realm. She discussed prostitution as a system of exploitation, and intercourse as a key site of subordination in patriarchy. Her analysis and writing influenced and inspired the work of her contemporary feminists, such as Catharine MacKinnon, Gloria Steinem, John Stoltenberg, Nikki Craft, Susan Cole, and Amy Elman. needs referncing
   • Many of Dworkin's early speeches are reprinted in her second book, Our Blood (1976). Later selections of speeches were reprinted ten and twenty years later, in Letters from a War Zone (1988) and Life and Death (1997). needs referncing.
   • Some critics, such as Larry Flynt's magazine Hustler and Gene Healy, allege that Dworkin endorsed incest. needs referncing.

• Done. — Malik Shabazz (talk · contribs) 01:22, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

1. • All done  Done Jezhotwells (talk) 16:22, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

   b (citations to reliable sources):

   • There are a large number of links to blogs and personal websites, which are not regarded as RS. Jezhotwells (talk) 20:20, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

• I deleted the links that weren't WP:RS. Susie Bright is an expert in her field and I think her blog (footnote 60) qualifies as an acceptable WP:SPS. Nikki Craft's website is the "official" Dworkin website (see the middle of this page). Please let me know if you think any of the other sources are unacceptable. — Malik Shabazz (talk · contribs) 01:37, 18 July 2009 (UTC)]

1. • All accepatable now. Jezhotwells (talk) 13:42, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

   c (OR):

2. It is broad in its scope.

   a (major aspects):

   b (focused):

3. It follows the neutral point of view policy.

   Fair representation without bias:

4. It is stable.

   No edit wars etc.:

5. It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate.

   a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales):

   • no images used

   b (appropriate use with suitable captions):

   • n/a

6. Overall:

   Pass/Fail:

   • Ok, this needs the referencing sorting out. Otherwise it is a good article and an interesting read. On hold for seven days. Jezhotwells (talk) 20:20, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

   • I see some progress is being made so I am happy to leave on hold for a further seven days. Jezhotwells (talk) 12:37, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

   • Staying on hold for unrefernced sections to be referenced. Jezhotwells (talk) 13:42, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
   • OK, all fixed now, keep GA status. Jezhotwells (talk) 16:22, 19 July 2009 (UTC)