Marynic

April 2014

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NSPCC

Hello, I saw your posts on Corporal punishment in the home and I also see that you are new to Wikipedia, so I may be able to offer some guidance.

Because wikipedia is an encyclopedia, the text needs to maintain a certain style and flow. It cannot, for example, have text that overtly contradicts earlier text, such as part of bit you posted.

Also, any text in the main article space needs to have a public source of some kind that others can verify. For example a link to a website, a published book, or professional journal. Books and journals are allowed even if they are not "free" on the internet, but they must have a proper bibliographic citation. Private e-mails do not count because there is no way to independently verify that they are authentic. Furthermore, some sources are superior to others in terms of authority and reliability. Blogs are generally frowned upon as sources because anyone can write a blog, even crackpots. Journals and government publications are considered very authoritative because they have been subjected to some kind of rigor or oversight.

Now, I was able to find verification that the CEO of NSPCC did make that statement here in this link [1]. However, there is still a problem. NSPCC is a charity, not a legal authority or government entity. Peter Wanless has no legal authority to be making the statement he did, even if it was made with the purest intentions. If the text is to be changed, it will need some kind of legal source, such as statutes of the law or a major court case (I'm not too familiar with how UK law works.Legitimus (talk) 18:27, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

I read the text you posted for me. It has decent sourcing, but now the matter is how you want the text of the article itself to be changed using this information. Is there a specific problem with the article as it stands now, that needs correcting? Legitimus (talk) 18:46, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

Ah that I understand and I will see what I can do.Legitimus (talk) 01:36, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

Corporal punishment in the home

Alright I did some digging into UK law. I am a bit out my element because I'm in the US and our legal system is different. But I was able to find the laws themselves. They are a bit confusing but I will attempt to summarize them in the article. I'm going to place the law links here for convenience so you can read them as well.Legitimus (talk) 13:03, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/31/section/58 http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/24-25/100/section/18 http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/24-25/100/section/47 http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/23-24/12/section/1#section-1-4