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Netherlands
The section in this article on the Netherlands describes the situation from 1990 to 2002, but does not say what happened in 2002 to change this, nor what the situation is now. This information should be included in the article if anyone knows the answer. It would also be interesting, but a lesser priority, to hear about how it worked before 1990. Credulity (talk) 15:16, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
Reverted edits
Addressing reverted edits by Crossroads. Firstly, in future can you please just revert edits you disagree with, not just mass revert all my edits, as some such as correcting the link to Age of consent reform in the United Kingdom and saying there have been cases to lower the age of consent you provided no arguments against. As for the other information, what makes it WP:FRINGE? I copied this across from the page Age of consent reform in the United Kingdom, where it is long standing cited information from reliable sources. The first paragraph is from Oxford Brookes University and Blackwell Scientific Publications, hardly fringe sources. While the second paragraph uses citations such as that of The Daily Telegraph, a mainstream British newspaper that is also regarded as a reliable source to use for citations on Misplaced Pages. Helper201 (talk) 16:56, 4 July 2020 (UTC)
I didn't know you copied that from another article. Per WP:COPYWITHIN, you have to say that you have done so in your edit summary and link to the article in the edit summary. We don't need excessive detail on the UK in this article per WP:Summary style. Crossroads01:28, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
Crossroads, apologies, I should have signified that. However, I still think the information I added should be included. It’s not a huge amount and adds more recent information. What is currently listed in the UK section is very old information, only going up to 1976. The stuff I added includes information from the 1990s and the 21st century. Helper201 (talk) 12:01, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
I don't believe that the results of a twenty-year-old non-scientific Internet poll represents the type of content that is appropriate for an encyclopedic resource. See, e.g., WP:WEIGHT. If there is a good argument for retaining that information in the article, I would welcome a discussion. Arllaw (talk) 12:18, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
Agreed. It represents teenage girls as having a certain view but is based on a non-scientific internet survey, so it's undue weight. Crossroads14:53, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
Text states that "In 1880, 37 states had an age of consent of 10 years, 10 states had an age of consent at 12 years, and Delaware had an age of consent of 7 years." However there were only a total of 38 states in 1880. Zoar-bellevue (talk) 02:37, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
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