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Removed her from list of Page 3 girls - If a "Page 3 girl" is defined as someone who appears in the Sun Newspaper - Lucy Pinder is not, according to her website, she had a contract with the Daily Star - Therefore, I doubt she has ever appeared in the Sun on Page 3. --Rrose Selavy 14:47, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
Would someone be so kind as to institute a policy of posting a daily "Wikipedia Page 3 Girl" and "Wikipedia Page 3 Boy" for our viewing entertainment? -º¡º
I've removed the NPOV tag from this article for the time being as (a) no-one's put a justification for it here (b) the article is well balanced as far as I can see. Smallbone10 23:23, 24 September 2005 (UTC)
I removed the image Image:Keeley.jpg because in my opinion it doesn't add anything useful to the article. Apparently some others disagree. I'd like to discuss this matter here, so if you agree or otherwise please say so. chowells 15:12, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
The current image (Image:Rahn240.jpg)) doesn't look anything like a modern "Page 3", in style or in content, and as such is more than a little misleading. Assuming it doesn't represent a copyright problem, wouldn't a photo of the paper be better? PeteVerdon 17:23, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
I'd like to request we get a few more pictures on this page. I don't think they'll improve the article, I just want to see some naked birds. More Pictures.--Crestville 00:33, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
How the hell can there be nudity in a newspaper... that's crazy.
--I know--- tell me about it, I despise the Sun and all tabloids like it. Nothing but cheap and trashy and a totally biased paper.
--To answer the above question about Americans: yes, some are deeply offended by toplessness. Most, however, are simply surprised by it because it is so rare in "casual" newpapers or magazines. In the USA, magazines with topless photos usually have to be covered in a paper bag. I think it's great how so many other countries are beyond this Puritanical crap, yet I myself am a bit shocked by toplessness (definately not offended by it) because you see so little of it in the USA, outside of the "proper" mediums (pornography, late-night premium TV, etc.). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.149.203.252 (talk) 09:27, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
It's a shame some people have the views of Nukleoptra Nats365 (talk) 13:27, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
Opinions on whether certain people find Page 3 style pin-ups 'degrading', 'offensive' etc are well covered (if you'll pardon the pun) under the 'Controversies' section in the main article. My own POV is that amongst most women as well as men, the mainstream view is that such pin-ups are neither degrading nor offensive and that most women are indifferent to them. Silver Barnet (talk) 17:56, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
I request that we add one or four. It would give a good idea to the readers how obscene it actually is. The reading content could give the reader the implication that the pictures are pornography. Ghost109 (talk) 18:18, 30 August 2008 (UTC)
"Diane West" links to the page for "Dianne Wiest", an American actress. I'm not sure whether she would be appalled by, indifferent to, or elated by this association, but I am sure it is incorrect. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Artemus123 (talk • contribs) 20:39, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
At the risk of stating the obvious it might be worth clarifying that the Sun's Page 3 Idol contest takes place towards the end of the previous year, especially with reference to this sentence 'The 2008 winner, 19-year-old university student Jenny Grant, committed suicide in the early hours of 13 September 2008'. It was precisely because of this suicide that no competition was held in late 2008 to choose a Page 3 Idol for 2009. With reference to this sentence 'The 2009 winner was Kelly Hall'; she won the competition in late 2009 to be Page 3 Idol for 2010.Silver Barnet (talk) 15:46, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
I edited this article by including a link to a relevant article at the end. Why was it removed? The article is here: http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/12025/
Why would this be removed? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.203.132.209 (talk) 19:42, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: Move. Jafeluv (talk) 08:09, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
– Almost 1 billion results for Page 3, less than 3 million for Page Three. Seems that the majority of sources on this page feature the number as well, rather than the word. Unreal7 (talk) 16:55, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
The list of US equivalents listed in that section included:
I've taken those two out and added citations for the other two examples (a dressed Page 3 girl in FOCUS, and Jet Magazine's Beauty of the Week so I've provided citations for them and left them in, and removed the unreferenced section orange box.--The Vintage Feminist (talk) 08:49, 21 August 2013 (UTC)
The statement "In 2003, the Sexual Offences Act 2003 raised the minimum legal age for topless modelling to 18." has been removed, as there is no reference to "topless" in that legislation. Indeed, topless photographs of children (under 16 until 2003, under 18 since then) have been specifically deemed "not indecent" in appropriate contexts. See the Sentencing Guidelines. 87.114.77.75 (talk) 05:12, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
I removed this section because it was almost entirely uncited. Without a direct assertion linking the individual features to The Sun's Page 3, which is unlikely, it all counts as original research anyway. As topless or nude modelling was featured in other publications in the west before 1970, it is not the case that Page 3 was a first. Nor has a source, as far as I know, been bold enough to say that The Sun was the first newspaper in the world to feature a topless model.
Some of the examples, a passage in the Australia section for example, refer to clothed rather than topless models, which does not demonstrate a connection to Page 3 in its usual format. An article on the use and attitudes to nudity (concerning both sexes) in the international media, which is an issue not wholly related to censorship, would be a good idea, if it does not exist already. 18:28, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
The article says: As Caroline Lucas explained in an article for The Independent: "So long as The Sun reserves its right to print the odd topless shot, and reserve its infamous page for girls clad in bikinis, the conversation isn't over." Is it in fact the case that The Sun replaced the topless Page 3 models with models wearing bikinis? The article doesn't clearly indicate that that is the case.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Metropolitan90 (talk • contribs) 03:47, 17 August 2018 (UTC)
This edit has been rather harshly ctiticised elsewhere... if you add unsourced content like this, expect it to get reverted until you do find sources. [1]
Now I have other questions about the edit in which this was raised, see User talk:Ritchie333#I am listening but maybe that is a bit harsh where I think these belong.
But I note that the edit in question has not yet been reverted. A well-deserved and constructive citation needed tag has been added.
And I also note that the information in question is easily verified by primary sources, as several Sydney libraries have collections of the newspaper in question either as fragile archives or microfilm. I looked at Trove but their scans end in 1954, and that was evidently before the page 3 girl was adopted. [2]
It seems to me a constructive edit, and I hope sources will in time be found, but other comments welcome. Andrewa (talk) 19:42, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
I heard some years ago that the Daily Telegraph usually published an account of a sexual offence, or court proceedings connected with one, on page 3, and was able to confirm that that was indeed the case. As surveys have shown its readership to be more educated than that of the Sun and Star, it may be that verbal input suffices for them where the others require visual stimulation. Having no military background I rarely look at the Telegraph, and so am unable to say whether that is a regular feature. Could a user confirm whether the paper still provides that service to its readers, and if so mention it on the main page? NRPanikker (talk) 00:09, 11 October 2019 (UTC)