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May 13, 2011	Guild of Copy Editors	Copyedited
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A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on May 21, 2011.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Adam Mansbach's bedtime-book Go the Fuck to Sleep was No. 1 on Amazon.com's bestseller list on May 12, 2011—a month before its release—thanks to free advance copies emailed via PDFs?

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Negative criticism[edit]

CNN today published an interesting opinion piece about this book. LadyofShalott 21:22, 27 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks to that opinion piece, I ordered the book. I suspect the book will make the rounds within the family.Wzrd1 (talk) 03:52, 29 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Terri Toles Patkin has written an interesting journal article [1] regarding the book and subversion in children's literature. Could be useful in discussing the controversy surrounding the book. Student.Madeline (talk) 15:48, 24 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This article may use more information on the negative backlash that this book received. This article (https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/jun/11/go-fuck-sleep-adam-mansbach) shows how some even consider the book, due to its obscene language, as a form of child abuse. Hoya38 (talk) 16:21, 24 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Source verification[edit]

The Eric Metaxas interview transcript at Hugh Hewitt's website is missing. Here are replacement sources for similar quotes by Metaxas, if the HughHewitt.com staff can't find it:

"When Did We Become So Crude?" by Eric Metaxas. June 23, 2011. Fox News (column).
"The dark side of parody" by Tiffany Owens. June 16, 2011, WorldMag.com
"Christian Author Eric Metaxas: 'Go the (Expletive) to Sleep' Parodies My Book", by Sarah Pulliam Bailey. Christianity Today blog.

--Lexein (talk) 09:56, 31 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

We should focus on trimming primary sources from the article and shift to as much emphasis on secondary sources, instead, as possible. This would help deal with the above issue, as well. Cheers, — Cirt (talk) 19:19, 10 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yep. #2 seems the best choice, of these. Concur?--Lexein (talk) 20:35, 10 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I believe so, but I haven't yet done that much expansive further secondary source research on this particular article's topic, yet. Been focusing on other articles related to freedom of speech and censorship that also grapple with how society deals with the word "fuck" in culture. I'll try to do some more research for this article soon. Cheers, — Cirt (talk) 20:39, 10 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Improved organization and structure[edit]

I've improved the organization and structure of the article a bit.

Next step in quality improvement would probably be further research for additional secondary sources, along with removing blockquoting and just removing general quotations in general in favor of paraphrasing.

The article still feels a little haphazard and disjointed, not anyone's fault in particular, likely just the result of random bits being added in over time.

— Cirt (talk) 22:24, 28 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]