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First thing that catches my attention is the terminology section; it needs to be better integrated into the text, it does feel like an assortment of words without context right now. As far as sourcing is concerned, the Hßrriyet/BardakçĹ cite is to some extent acceptable as it is written by a credible
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Thank you so much for your edits to this article, I greatly appreciate them as well as your patience with me throughout. I've tried to expand on the lead now; if you think it needs editing please let me know, as well as any other outstanding issues with the article. Sorry I haven't been as quick as
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The literature and art section needs a serious rewrite for tone; I can't point to every single unencylopedic sentence, but at least partial reorganization seems necessary. A few examples include, but are not limited to: "Contrary to popular belief, the homosexual relationships in these poems is not
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Ottoman Empire" the best title for the article? As the article says, this is anachronistically projecting modern concepts backwards. "Sexuality" seems to be a common word in the source titles (as well as Homosexuality, but that may be more restrictive than the article
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I'll organize separate points in bullet list form here, and generally start with the sections, and then move onto the lede. I think the article in general is not in the best shape, but the problem is largely focus and coherence related. It also does not always present local and temporal variance.
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just between two different generations." (kind of hard to understand, is it talking about pederasty?), "This poet frequently writes about his homosexuality and he is not ashamed of this." (I think the issue here is obvious.), "is an interesting example of this" (characterization not needed).
433:(Sorry for the lateness in reply here): I agree - I've tried to expand on this a bit, but has been difficult to find any concrete examples to use in this article. However, I've tried to add in information that pederasty was not the only form of understood homosexuality in the Ottoman Empire.
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I've listed this article for peer review because I believe it is an important historical topic. There are a lot of good sources and suggestions for expansion on the talk page, and I believe this could be a good article. But I need some more editor input and peer review to suggest concrete
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I've tried to move some sources around in order to cover more information pre-1858, and will have another read through sources later on. Hopefully it is an improvement for the time being. (I've also reworded the
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On that subsection, "pre-1858" is a huge length of time for the
Ottoman Empire, is there any information on when this cultural conception began to emerge, or was it carried over from pre-Ottoman times? (The later "time of the Crusades" mention suggests it is older than the
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I think the remaining problems are about things that we have already agreed-upon; less content and more style related; and things that I have time to change right now. we can discuss here if you object to the remaining changes in any way. Thank you for your edits, again.
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norms were often flouted for same-sex attraction of people in similar age groups, though this was often viewed as more deviant; and there were also definitely periods where "homosexuality was not a taboo subject" would not apply as well, even before the 19th century.
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I agree that using this specific date seems odd in the context; I've re-worded this to make the point that executions happened. Source doesn't seem to go into too much detail, but I seem to be struggling accessing the full source for some reason.
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thank you for the suggestions and your patience here. I will be trying to make some more edits to this article to improve it, but I've tried to address your points as good I can; please let me know what you think of the article now.
597:"It is also possible that some literary scenes of a homosexual nature were removed by censors at a later date, when homosexuality became more normative in Ottoman society." I believe it should be "less normative" not more.
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Furthermore, on "There was a long-standing belief that these poems were pederastic," reads like in actuality there was no pederasty; the practice was definitely normative. Perhaps a better phrasing would be "exclusively
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I'm not seeing how the sentence "Homosexuality was culturally associated with love." is linked to the sentence after it, which seems purely to be about sexual desire (and includes heterosexuality).
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would actually be a very rough equivalent of heterosexual, particularly referring to a man with a supposedly unhealthy amount of sexual desire for women. The term for a woman-loving-woman would be
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I've re-read the article and I think it's in good shape now; I've only made one new substantive edit, which you can revert if I'm simply misinformed and haven't read enough of the source. Thank
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goes into this, I believe)? It still looks strange considering legal sanctions were altogether very rare, and this does not give that impression. It might be better to remove it entirely.
485:"During this time, some Ottoman men were executed for sodomy including two boys in Damascus in 1807." looks a little strange without context; does the source refer to it in any context?
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Thank you; I have tried to integrate this into the text - hopefully it makes sense now. I've removed some terminology which doesn't seem particularly helpful here. I agree that the
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I've clarified the issue re pederasty being the norm for these poems, so hopefully it reads better now. If you disagree with the current wording please let me know.
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Thank you, I've tried to re-arrange this now so hopefully it reads better. I greatly appreciate the help you've given by reviewing this article, thank you so much!
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I agree that "LGBT in the
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I'll likely get to recommending sources for that soon. (I'll also be signing individual comments to make it easier for you to respond to things individually.)
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