User talk:69.115.160.82

The following are responses to the question/comment you left at the Help Desk. Just FYI. SkipperClipper 02:52, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not an advice center or a sexual assault treatment link database. Victims should not be looking on Wikipedia for this sort of advice. If this information needs to be added, it needs sources and notability to back it up, we don't add information here because it would be useful. You may want to post more specifically the sort of thing you want added, as well as the change on debunking, on the talk pages of the article(s) in question. -Wooty Woot? contribs 17:06, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

   Actually we do add lots of useful information to Wikipedia (I doubt the goal is for Wikipedia to be utterly useless), but usefulness alone is not sufficient for inclusion here. Given that the questioner speaks of this subject using jargon I have heard before, he or she very likely picked up this jargon from a standard literature. Which means there should be plenty of reputable sources to cite. The sexual assault article has some improperly formatted citations (such as: "Greenfeld, 1997") which need someone to edit them properly with <ref> tags and  {{citation}}: Empty citation (help) templates. I would encourage the original questioner to study some of the better articles on Wikipedia (see: WP:GA and WP:FA), and try to bring the sexual assault article up to that standard. It ought to be possible, given the extensive literature on the topic. If the original questioner wants to write a procedural article for victims of sexual assault to follow (I hesitate to hop on the euphemism treadmill and describe a class of people who normally survive as "survivors" - I'd rather stick to the historical usage of the term "survivor" as pertaining to someone who survived something with a high fatality rate, and crime victims are normally called "victims," as in "murder victim," "robbery victim", "libel victim," etc. - we couldn't very well say "murder survivors," after all), he or she might try wikiHow. --Teratornis 19:24, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

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