Sexual script theory was a good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
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	A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on July 31, 2008. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the sexual script is a sociological analysis of what leads up to sexual intercourse?

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This article was the subject of an educational assignment that ended on July 2008. Further details are available here.

At the invitation of The Prokonsul, I had a look here. I see issues:

1. with the format of the lead (per Military sociology) and the lead 'graph; it might earn a ((context)) tag from me, in normal use.
2. with insufficient links out, which would put it on the Dead-end or Orphaned pages, & earn a ((deadend)) &/or ((orphaned)) tag. Test it at "What links here". (I confess, I don't know the criteria for "deadend", 'cause i've seen stubs tagged that would be nothing but linkfarms if more were added.)
3. with lack of footnotes (a perennial complaint on WP; it'd be tagged for "lacking inline citations")
4. with some of the psychobabble (but maybe that's me).

It's showing signs of a good page, but at a glance, it still needs a lot of work. TREKphiler ^{hit me ♠} 19:15, 18 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You may want to consider Wikipedia:Peer review to attract more reviewers.--_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 01:40, 22 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You may find the below suggestions useful._{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 18:09, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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• Please expand the lead to conform with guidelines at Wikipedia:Lead. The article should have an appropriate number of paragraphs as is shown on WP:LEAD, and should adequately summarize the article.^[?]
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• Per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (headings), headings generally should not repeat the title of the article. For example, if the article was Ferdinand Magellan, instead of using the heading ==Magellan's journey==, use ==Journey==.^[?]
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This review is transcluded from Talk:Sexual script/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

This article does not meet the Good article criteria and has therefore failed. Issues include:

• The article has a maintenance template at the top of the page; this shows that the article still has issues. The specific issue here is that there is not enough inline footnotes to clarify that all of the information in the article has a reference; several paragraphs go unreferenced, so it is unclear whether there are references available to verify the information.
• I don't recommend putting a numbered list directly in the lead.
• The lead should be a summary of the entire article rather than an introduction. Some of the information in the lead, including the numbered list, do not appear elsewhere in the article.
• Format the "Social Construction of Gender." reference according to WP:CITE/ES; that is, it requires at least a publisher and access date.

Please renominate the article once these issues have been addressed. Gary King (talk) 16:52, 28 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There is no indication here of the context of a particular society (e.g. the U.S.? Western societies in general?) but clearly some such context is presumed (e.g. in the statement about double standards). Should be clarified. - Jmabel | Talk 22:22, 28 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Further suggestion: the idea here isn't to show off that you know something. It is to convey information to a person who came here to learn about this. - Jmabel | Talk 22:28, 28 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The article is very unclear on when this idea originated and how it may have evolved over time. It suggests (but doesn't say outright) that Gagnon & Simon, 1973 - very vaguely cited, by the way - is the origin of the term. Is it? - Jmabel | Talk 22:32, 28 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The issue of the origin of the term seems to have been addressed, but could do with a reference & possibly moving out of the lead Alanthehat (talk) 22:16, 8 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I want to thank all editors who have contributed to this article, either by editing it or by reviewing it and offering help on this talk page. While the article has fallen short of the Good Article criteria, it has progressed from a red link on requested articles list to solid C or even B class. The latest version edited by the students was this one.--_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 18:11, 29 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The intro mentions "active voicing." I have no idea what this is. Is it related to active voice? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.208.35.58 (talk) 22:05, 30 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I never got past the lead. Problems:

• A sexual script is defined as what leads up to sexual encounters in which are learned interactions.
  • What is this sentence trying (and abjectly failing) to say?

• The production of consensus through seamless torn-talking & collaborative talk
  • What in shiny blue thunder is seamless torn-talking? The bizarre juxtaposition of "seamless" and "torn" aside, if torn-talking is a meaningful term, it needs to be linked to a wiki page or at least defined.

• Active voicing
  • I'm sorry, what? If what you mean is "Express voicing of sexual desire", say that.

• In sexual script's link to sexual activity; sexuality, sexual norms, social construction and gender roles all play a part in what makes sexual script differ between males and females.
  • Objection. This sentence should be taken out and shot.

Generally, the lead reads like it was serially translated from English to Swahili, to Hindi, and back again to English -- by someone committed to clinical prudery on a Victorian scale. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.246.173.144 (talk) 17:14, 7 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with the above entirely. The article assumes knowledge of jargon which most people do not have. I presume this is sociological language. Just one example. "Script" implies something written- for example a form of writing such as "Roman" or "Cyrillic" or "Linear B" or the text of a play or a speech. I can't tell from this article what the meaning is here. Spinney Hill (talk) 12:39, 28 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, this article is bad. That is why I tagged it as I did. This article seems to have had these problems for years; probably because this is kind of an obscure theory. -Crossroads- (talk) 16:23, 28 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This article is a pretty bad case of tag bombing, with many issues that are not clearly defined (e.g. "This article may need to be rewritten to comply with Wikipedia's quality standards."), not actually present (e.g. calling the page underlinked), or just plain duplicates (e.g. "This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. The specific problem is: It is written assuming that social constructionism is true; needs material on reception and criticism by other scholars and perspectives", plus the undue weight tag presumably referring to the same problem, plus another "This article may need to be rewritten to comply with Wikipedia's quality standards."). After reviewing them, I removed all but one tag about the social constructivism issue, since all others seemed inappropriate, duplicative, or not severe enough to warrant a tag. Wikipedia:Tag bombing suggests Consider applying only the most specific, helpful tags and Avoid vague and redundant tags. Spinney Hill reverted me, though. Can we work toward a consensus about what to do for this? ((u|Sdkb)) ^talk 22:24, 22 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I think we'll be good if we do your undue weight with reason tag, but together with the more citations tag from 2009. Much of the lead material is not supported by the body, the first section is entirely unsourced, and the several following sections are badly undersourced. I think those two are needed at minimum. The article's layout/organization is confusing too, but I don't know how best to tag for that or if it's needed on top of the other issues. Any more than those two or three is unnecessary I believe. Crossroads ^-talk- 01:59, 23 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Crossroads: That sounds fine to me. Feel free to change it to that. ((u|Sdkb)) ^talk 06:16, 23 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Since Crossroads and I wrote our notes in August 2019 nothing has been done to the language to make it more understandable. I am not asking for dumbing down but merely that as a reasonably educated person who knows nothing about the subject I can be enlightened. Someone who knows something about the subject needs to tackle this. A start could be made with explaining what is meant by script..User:Piotrus may be on the right lines here, but so far as I can see this approach has never been part of the article.Spinney Hill (talk) 07:59, 23 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Spinney Hill: There's clearly a lot of work to do for the page; it's a start-class article. But that's separate from the question of which tags are justified. We don't put a tag indicating every aspect of a page that doesn't live up to GA expectations. ((u|Sdkb)) ^talk 09:43, 23 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I did add the tags a year ago, but I was a much less experienced editor back then; I now see the excessive tags as counterproductive. I think the 3 tags I have there now sum up the issues while still identifying them - needs more sources, lacks criticism from other perspectives, and needs reorganization. Crossroads ^-talk- 19:45, 23 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Despite my complaints and he complaints of others this artcle has remained unintelligable to the general reader. Other editors' changes have done very little to inprove it. To improve things I have been bold and I have imported a paragraph which appeared in a very early version (back to basics sometimes works) and made what I hope are intelligent guesses as to what a "script" and "leaned behaviour" means. Once this is in the article the rest of it becomes more intelligable but there is still work to be done. Experts please take it from here but please make improvements rather than make it more obscure. If my interpretation is wrong please improve the article rather than revert. Spinney Hill (talk) 10:58, 11 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 21 August 2023 and 15 December 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Pumpkiinss03 (article contribs). Peer reviewers: Dimsumyo, Jaybreeze123.

— Assignment last updated by Jaybreeze123 (talk) 01:36, 29 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I recently changed the opening paragraph and included history about sexual scripts. I also added a few separate sections, including mediated sexual scripts, men and pornography sexual scripts, sexual health scripts, and sexual scripts criticism. I also included Paul wright's 3am model section. I believe this sums up sexual scripts well. However, I believe there is room for change, if people would like to add or change it up at a later time. Perhaps a longer more thorough section on gender sexual scripts or a section about the current sexual scripts we see in Gen Z? Pumpkiinss03 (talk) 08:33, 15 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I believe that at the start the theory needs to be stated in simpler language. Yes it is a technical theory but a simple statement introduces complex thought better than launching straight into complexities. When I say simple I mean something which I believe a reasonably educated person who is not an academic sexual theorist can understand. I have re-introduced a section you discarded which I think fits the bill. I have slotted it into your structure. It doesn't have a reference but it is drawn (with some difficulty) from the rest of the article, which I think is all that is required in a wikipedia lead.Spinney Hill (talk) 09:26, 15 December 2023 (UTC) Change it if you like but please keep it simple. I think the analogy with an actor acting in a play with a script s a good one.Spinney Hill (talk) 09:30, 15 December 2023 (UTC).[reply]

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 30 January 2024 and 9 May 2024. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Halleparker, Lavin001, Kelseamg, Sbeno0021, Gavin022502 (article contribs). Peer reviewers: Lavin001, Matt Forrence, Declancohan, Arive060.

— Assignment last updated by Mollyabell1 (talk) 18:19, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]