Editing Eurovision Wiki:Teahouse (section)

== Struggling to incorporate different perspective ==

Hi, I was trying to flesh out the article for ''[[The Yellow Scale]]'' with some info from a book by a scholar whose area of expertise is Comparative Literature and German. However, the book treats the picture as if it were a portrait of Charles Baudelaire, rather than what's stated on the article (what seems to be the prevailing view among art historians, which is that it's a self-portrait). It doesn't directly contradict this view because it doesn't even acknowledge it. I found some info on an art history blog saying there's a faction of scholars who believe it to be a portrait of Baudelaire, but no primary evidence of this. What do you do when a single accredited source is on a totally different wavelength from the existing text but doesn't properly engage with it?  [[User:Mafarkafut|Kaspar Hauser]] ([[User talk:Mafarkafut|talk]]) 07:19, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

:{{U|Mafarkafut}} (Kaspar Hauser), "the book treats the picture as if it were a portrait of Charles Baudelaire" is curiously indirect. Does the book treat the picture as a portrait of Baudelaire? If it does, and if the book gives some reasoning for this interpretation, then I'd mention it (but I'd skip talk of the "faction of scholars"); if the author fails to assert this directly or asserts it but provides no reasoning for it, then I wouldn't mention it. I can't cite any guideline to back me up here, and so may well be contradicted. -- [[User:Hoary|Hoary]] ([[User talk:Hoary|talk]]) 11:39, 16 March 2026 (UTC)
:Hi @[[User:Mafarkafut|Mafarkafut]],
:You could mention the possibility of ''The Yellow Scale'' being a portrait of Baudelaire within the article and note that it's not the consensus, a method opted for in a number of articles. As an example you could refer to [[Death of Diana, Princess of Wales|this article]], section "Conspiracy Theories", which demonstrates this way of acknowledging perspectives that don't agree with the consensus. For more information you can also refer to WP:UNDUE and WP:FRINGE which provide guidelines to treat this kind of information.
:Happy editing! [[User:Paolo Roland Self|Paolo Roland Self]] ([[User talk:Paolo Roland Self|talk]]) 15:07, 16 March 2026 (UTC)