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Michel Foucault is a former featured article. Please see the links under Article milestones below for its original nomination page (for older articles, check the nomination archive) and why it was removed.
How is Foucault's name pronounced? Normal French pronunciation would be /miˈʃɛl fuˈko/ but I have seen web sites that say it's /ˈfuko/. Did he alter the proonunciation when he lived in Scandinavia and Germany, or are those sites simply wrong?— Preceding unsigned comment added by ABehrens (talk • contribs) 1 February 2016 (UTC)
The petition mentioned in the section on his views on age of consent shouldnt be there and is blatantly misrepresented. That petition was to make the age of consent for homosexual sex acts in line with the general age of consent and not far above them and the section makes no sense whatsoever with this fact removed as without this context it says he wanted to lower the age of consent to the age of consent. Its a ridiculous misdirection to claim this as evidence of his opinions on underage sex when its clearly about the homophobic double standard at play. Additionally by definition it makes no sense to claim support for the general age of consent becoming applicable to homosexuals isnt an opinion on underage sex because its about people that are above the age of consent and thus not underage 103.250.118.144 (talk) 04:41, 12 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Do you have a source explaining this? At least at a glance, one problem with the section is that it relies extremely heavily on WP:PRIMARY sources, pulling quotes out of a single interview; for something WP:EXCEPTIONAL like this that isn't really appropriate, especially not when we're devoting an entire section to it. So if we had more secondary sources putting this in proper context we could rewrite it to focus on those instead. --Aquillion (talk) 15:38, 12 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
On examination, every citation in the section except one is a WP:PRIMARY cite to a single interview (it was cited under different names and publications three times); and the one remaining source is a Guardian article where Foucault is only mentioned briefly in passing as part of a list of names. I'm not sure this is enough for even a paragraph, but it certainly isn't enough for an entire section - we should try and find secondary sources if we're going to retain this at all. --Aquillion (talk) 15:51, 12 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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It does not appear to be true or correct that Michel Foucault signed the January 1977 French petition calling for abolishing the age of consent; not omission to do so is notable given that so many others did. This actually stated on the "French petitions against age of consent laws" page itself and can be observed in 2 of the sources cited, 5 and 6:
Faucault signed the May 1977 letter arguing against the disparity in age of consent laws between heterosexuals and homosexuals.
It seems remarkable to include this false factoid in the page for Foucault when the same petition is not mentioned on thn Wikipedia pages of many who did actually sign it. Borwse (talk) 21:29, 14 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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