Talk:Mechanism of autism

Association found between inflammation in brain and autism
First evidence of immune response targeting brain cells in autism finds perivascular lymphocyte cuffing (a sign of inflammation) post mortem more frequently in autism. Would this be the most appropriate article to mention it in ? - Rod57 (talk) 16:24, 21 October 2019 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Human Cognition SP23
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Merge with duplicate article Pathophysiology of autism
@User:Mruanova recently created a new article Pathophysiology of autism by splitting content from the main autism spectrum article that covers essentially the same topic and contains text that is more or less identical to this article.

I propose merging the two articles and currently lean towards calling it "pathophysiology of autism" as this seems to be the more generic term. What do you think?--TempusTacet (talk) 09:22, 15 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Support merge, although there does not seem to be much to merge - this is more a reversion of an unnecessary split. And yes, "Pathophysiology of autism" would seem to be the better title, but Mechanism of autism is the older article and has a substantial editing history. Thus what I suggest should happen here is merging whatever suitable new material is contained in Pathophysiology of autism back into Mechanism of autism, then swapping titles, although the latter would seem to be nice rather than crucial. In any case we should not copy-paste the older article into a new one, especially if there is no substantial extension. -- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 06:26, 26 June 2023 (UTC)
 * I agree. After looking through both articles they are in essence the same thing. Pathophysiology of autism would make a good title. NuminousMonky (talk) 17:11, 9 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Support merge of Pathophysiology of autism into this one. Thank you Elmidae for pointing out the article history, as that greatly informed my view of the situation. That "Pathophysiology of..." article was born during a storm of article splits in June 2023 when an editor deemed the main Autism spectrum article to be too long, citing WP:SIZERULE. That editor also wanted to redirect "Mechanism of..." into "Pathophysiology of..." right away, possibly because they felt the newer split outweighed the older one by default, but I agree that choice was a bit hasty. I prefer the topic's continuity to remain here on the older article, and I prefer "Pathophysiology of autism" as the final article title. Aeffenberger (talk) 21:14, 13 December 2023 (UTC)