Editing Community (section)

=== Semantics ===
The concept of "community" often has a positive semantic connotation, exploited rhetorically by populist politicians and by advertisers<ref>
{{cite book
 | editor1-last = Wilson
 | editor1-first = Alexander
 | title = Advertising and the Community
 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=oOBRAQAAIAAJ
 | series = Reprints of economic classes
 | year = 1968
 | edition = reprint
 | location = Manchester
 | publisher = Manchester University Press
 | page = 39
 | isbn = 978-0719003363
 | access-date = 6 June 2021
 | quote = In Britain, by far the more fashionable concern is that for advertising's value to the community.
}}
</ref>
to promote feelings and associations of mutual well-being, happiness and togetherness<ref>
{{cite book
 | last1 = Everingham
 | first1 = Christine
 | title = Social Justice and the Politics of Community
 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=GVK5AAAAIAAJ
 | series = Welfare and society : studies in welfare policy, practice and theory
 | year = 2003
 | edition = reprint
 | location = Aldershot
 | publisher = Ashgate
 | page = 21
 | isbn = 978-0754633983
 | access-date = 6 June 2021
 | quote = Community is a very troublesome word then, having a wide range of meanings and connotations but little in the way of specific content. It is particularly useful as a rhetorical device because of its democratic and populist connotations, being associated with 'the people', as distinct from 'the government'.
}}
</ref>—veering towards an almost-achievable [[utopian community]].

In contrast, the [[epidemiology|epidemiological]] term "[[community transmission]]" can have negative implications,<ref>
For example:
{{cite news
| last1                 = Basu
| first1                = Mohana
| title                 = What is community transmission — how one can contract COVID-19 without travelling
| url                   = https://theprint.in/health/what-is-community-transmission-how-one-can-contract-covid-19-without-travelling/380398/
| work                  = ThePrint
| publisher             = Printline Media Pvt Ltd
| publication-date      = 13 March 2020
| access-date           = 6 June 2021
| quote                 = [...] when the source of transmission for a large number of people is not traceable it is called a community transmission. [...]Most types of influenza and bird flu outbreaks in the past were known to have spread through community transmission. The outbreak of H1N1 in 2009, commonly known as swine flu, was primarily through community transmission. [...] In the case of community transmission, contact tracing is inadequate in containing the disease. [...] This is particularly worrisome for health officials because that means the virus is in the community but no one knows where it has come from or track its origins. This also means the virus can be widespread in a community.
}}
</ref> and instead of a "criminal community"<ref>
{{cite book
 | last1 = Feinberg
 | first1 = Joel
 | author-link1 = Joel Feinberg
 | title = The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law: Harmless wrongdoing
 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=yDQQAQAAMAAJ
 | series = Volume 4 of The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law
 | year = 1988
 | location = Oxford
 | publisher = Oxford University Press
 | publication-date = 1988
 | page = 103
 | isbn = 978-0-19-504253-5
 | access-date = 6 June 2021
 | quote = There is, as I have said, a law enforcement community but not a criminal community. Why should that be?
}}
</ref> one often speaks of a "[[criminal underworld]]" or of the "criminal fraternity".