Talk:Ronald Weitzer

message: I've reverted a number of edits by the above anonymous user, as they largely violate WP:NPOV and WP:NOR. These edits have NPOV problems insofar as the language is clearly slanted toward advocacy rather than simple description of Weitzer's views. Also, these additions are entirely unreferenced and much of it comes across as original research rather than a summary of Weitzer's published work. I've eliminated this section in particular:
:"He does not advocate, however, formal decriminalization in the U.S., which he considers impractical in this country. Nor does he argue in favor of universal non-enforcement against indoor prostitution establishments. Police should remain involved in enforcing the law when a complaint has been made by a community member and when there is evidence of force or fraud in the recruitment of indoor workers. But non-enforcement is considered an appropriate use of scarce government resources in indoor venues that do not pose a problem for the community or for the workers. Those resources should be transferred to the control of street-level prostitution. Although Weitzer has been called an advocate of "legalization" or "decriminalization" by some writers, his evidence-based conclusions are much more nuanced and context-specific than what these general terms suggest."
I have several of Weitzer's paper's on prostitution policy in front of me, and I can't find anything stating that the above is, in fact, his approach to enforcement of laws regarding indoor prostitution.
Where possible, I've tried to reincorporate material added by 68.34.57.97 insofar as I could find an actual references to back up such statements, such as I did with Weitzer's statements about the harm reduction principle.
Also, the deletion of all links and references to Melissa Farley is uncalled for and rather POV. The "See also" link to Melissa Farley is put here as a placeholder until material on Weitzer's arguments with Farley can be incorporated into the article. The removal of the Farley articles under "Debates between Weitzer and others" basically leaves only Weitzer's side of the debate, and removes the opposing side. That this is hugely POV and, frankly, a bit petty should go without saying.
All of this must be looked at in light of the debates taking place over on Talk:Melissa Farley. The way to approach these issues and the actors involved is to neutrally describe all points of view, both those of the subject and the subject's critics, and not to treat each article as a little "fiefdom" where the views of the subject are favored against the views of critics. This is precisely the approach called for in WP:NPOV and WP:CONTROVERSY. Iamcuriousblue 19:36, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Regarding recent edits by [[User:68.34.57.97]]

message: I reverted the additions to Major publications as per WP:IINFO. Posting of large lists of publications, full CVs, etc, goes against Wikipedia guidelines, which was the reason that the publications list was pared down to begin with. I kept the list of books, however, for journal articles, I cut the list back. This was done in a methodical way – I used a Web of Science search to find what Weitzer's most cited articles were, then included the most cited articles for each of his two major subject areas. (The two anthology articles were examined using a "Google test" to see if they obtained a comparable number of "hits" to his most cited articles.) I also added, on recent article, ""The Social Construction of Sex Trafficking", feeling that even though this was too new to have accumulated much citation, the work was clearly his fullest statement about the moral panic around trafficking. 
Articles that didn't make this cut, but nevertheless had free public links to them were moved down to "External links" (where several other articles were added).
Hopefully, this should explain why the publications list and list of external links took the shape that it did. Iamcuriousblue 18:32, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Major publications