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Better sources

The sources in this article are terrible, most are either unreliable, or not independent, or both.

As noted in the recent AFD, there are better sources that could be used:

Reposted from the AFD for future reference. ~Anachronist (talk) 04:17, 19 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Some of those aren't that great (Buzzfeed, for example). We should be using scholarly sources from the field of LGBT studies, not articles that may barely be more than blog posts spouting some writer's opinion. Crossroads ^-talk- 03:44, 20 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Sources "from the field of LGBT studies" strikes me as non-independent of the subject. ~Anachronist (talk) 16:45, 20 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

To some extent perhaps, but surprisingly enough the popular media can be at times be even more inclined to exaggerate "queerness" than that field. I haven't looked at all the sources above, but some are like that. Crossroads ^-talk- 02:56, 21 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Uh... Anachronist, that's not how the independence of sources work. But, disregarding that, these are two academic pieces that have the phrase in their headline, are mainly about the topic, and are from academic journals not generally about LGBT issues: [1] and [2] 👨x🐱 (talk) 03:01, 21 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed merge of Sissy villain into Queer coding

Both of these articles are very short, and a "sissy villain" is the same exact topic as queer coding. We don't do WP:CFORKs. "Sissy villain" is somehow an even more inflammatory title than "queer coding". The former has an oddly high number of non-English sources, so I wonder if translation from another language Wikipedia may be part of the issue. Crossroads ^-talk- 04:28, 20 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Support (both for the merge and for the advancement of LGBTQ+ people). This should be at least be included briefly in the other article to indicate it's another phrase to refer to the subject. Academic sources, books, and other sources use the phrase (sometimes derogatorily) to refer to queer-coded villains, but not nearly as much as they use the phrase queer coding. 👨x🐱 (talk) 02:55, 21 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]