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usually an inclusivist, so you don't have a high bar to jump over to get me to switch sides. :-) Give me an idea of what you think it will become. Obviously you're under no expectation to actually improve the article right now, but could you provide supporting references or even outline what the new, encyclopedic, article would look like? When
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The talk page mentions a former plan to redirect this page to "nymphet" or vice versa. Essentially synonyms, based on the same Nabokov novel, both "Lolita" and "nymphet" are used to erode sympathy for children whose attention-seeking behavior is perceived by a pedophile as "seductive." If the article
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It is only a dictionary definition and I don't see it becoming much more than that. It's a word that gets used for a variety of semi-related insults for young women and it's hardly unique in that regard (as you can tell by the current state of the article). For those suggesting that it could be more
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word can meet that criteria. I'm suggesting we delete or redirect to Wikt because it's clearly only a dictionary definition now (in fact, the entry at the actual dictionary is higher quality than our supposedly encyclopedic entry). You're suggesting it can become more than that. No problem; I'm
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than that, could you elaborate? In the fully-formed version of the article that you anticipate, what does it look like? What headings are there? What I anticipate is what the Wiktionary article is:
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think about it, all I can come up with "It got used in a book and then became a widespread term of abuse, meaning X, Y, Z." and that's not exactly a compelling article.
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Sorry, but I assumed you were already going to send it to AfD, so the ping would have been unnecessary. If you weren't then, yeah, I probably should have pinged you and
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Lolita Is in the Eye of the Beholder: Amplifying Preadolescent Girls’ Voices in Conversations about Sexualization, Objectification, and Performativity
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The topic has expanded beyond the original book, overcome the slang, and become a topic of academic interest on child sexualization in the media.---
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also being covered in an article about the idea), in which case it might be appropriate to simply spin out the "book" sections and instead use the
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Hi, No worries, That's one drawback to having over 28 thousand watchlisted items - Things get lost rather easily! :), Ah well no worries, –
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in more depth instead of remaining a dictionary definition and being deleted for it. It might even become the main article (I can see
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Sex, cell phones, privacy, and the first amendment: when children become child pornographers and the Lolita effect undermines the law
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survives, it should not be "forked" from nymphet, and its usage should be discussed as we do other dehumanizing terms such as
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So, I do agree with Matt's rationale, which is why I seconded the PROD. There are mentions of how it is used, e.g.
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and the critical analysis of these individual works, we still have the following, and enough RS to meet GNG for
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box to the main article as well as providing an overview of the wider topic might be sufficient. —
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Reviving Lolita? A media literacy examination of sexual portrayals of girls in fashion advertising
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below.
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
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I think this qualifies as an independent notable topic for a Knowledge (XXG) article. ---
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article to cover the wider impact on literature and culture. I guess I'm not to sure
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Lolita in Peyton Place: Highbrow, Middlebrow, and LowBrow Novels of the 1950s
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This was deprodded due to being a possibly controversial deletion by
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in a hatnote, which provides a Wikitionary link. I'd think adding a
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child exploitation material depicting the sexual abuse of children
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The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate.
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because the term itself is a notable encyclopedic subject. --
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ping me as opposed to you using No ping ..... Just sayin'. –
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as per Matt and Alpha303 or redirect to Wiktionary article.
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Lolita speaks: ‘Sexting,’ teenage girls and the law
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