Talk:Automimicry

recent changes and future work
Recently added a synopsis of work done on automimicry, as explained in Ruxton et al. 2004.

Created a subheading for examples of automimicry from the animal kingdom. Many are given in Ruxton et al., but I have not had time to list them.

Remaining material needs more references, as I have been unable to find any that support other definitions of automimicry. The exception is Guthrie and Petocz 1970, but their definition appears to be about signal efficacy, rather than mimicry. Dwkikuchi (talk) 07:43, 22 September 2016 (UTC)


 * Good work. Clearly, if there are no reliable sources for other definitions, then the article should not discuss them. The article's domain is what the sources cover.


 * The initial section is currently not a summary of the article, but contains an extended (and cited) discussion of the strategy as an ESS involving honest signalling. All of that needs to be in the body of the article, and then briefly summarized in a (new) lead section. I'll make a start on it. Chiswick Chap (talk) 07:57, 22 September 2016 (UTC)

Items also/partially covered in other articles
- you've removed a large amount of the topic's coverage on the dubious grounds that these things are covered by a more general article, mimicry. That was already written before we began here, so of course overlap is likely. If the term automimicry is used to cover abc, then abc a priori belongs here. Further, a reasonable amount of overlap can be useful in making articles more complete and self-contained, without requiring readers to jump about to understand a topic; and of course, the other article can be cut down leaving a "main article" link and a short summary when a topic more properly belongs here. I'm inclined to revert all your deletions, unless there's very good reason why not. What the other article says is, first off, its problem. Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:28, 25 September 2016 (UTC)