Talk:Parasocial relationships

Instructor feedback for article draft
Excellent work on the draft! I think you have put together a nice Wikipedia article and I encourage you to move it to the mainspace after revising. You might also consider whether you want to merge your content with the existing Parasocial interaction Wikipedia article or whether you think your content differs enough to create an entirely new page. Here are few suggestions for revisions.

The lead section has a lot of good information that is appropriate for a lead. I think moving the sentences starting with "In 1956..." to the background would be a better fit. Also, cite the original Horton and Wohl source there. The parasocial interaction paragraph does a good job showing the differences between the concepts, but the first sentence could be revised when defining what parasocial interaction is. You state that parasocial interaction is a "friendlike relationship." I think you need to define it differently because you are saying that interaction is a relationship, but then try to show how parasocial relationships are different than parasocial interaction. Stay away from using relationship to describe parasocial interaction.

The background section provides some good information, although much of this information is already in the Parasocial interaction article. How might you add some different content that can be valuable to Wikipedia readers? The discussion of the measurement, PSI scale, is good, but might be more appropriate in a different section (e.g., application section?).

The content sections are well-written and include a nice depth of information based in scholarly research. I think the only thing to consider here is what sub-sections overlap with the existing article (e.g., parasocial breakup) and what type of revisions might be appropriate to the existing article in terms of rewriting existing content or adding new information.

The application section is good, but the heading could be titled differently, such as "theoretical connections." Also, the bolded terms in this paragraph could be changed to links to wikipedia articles rather than just bold typeface.

The critique provides a nice discussion, but instead of writing it as a conversation with the reader, try to formulate the critique as an analysis based in critiquing the theorizing and research about parasocial relationships. Avoid using first person language (e.g., "I would consider if parasocial relationships..."). The suggestions for future research are insightful, but try to juxtapose these ideas against what previous research has done. Why would multi-generational approaches be beneficial as compared to what previous research has done? The last two questions in this section are good questions, but write these as statements rather than questions.

Remember to use proper APA style throughout. The references are not in accurate APA style. You will likely need to manually edit the citations as opposed to using Wikipedia's citation tool to automatically cite a source. For example, the first word in an article title is the only word to be capitalized. Jrpederson (talk) 14:52, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

Feedback from New Page Review process
I left the following feedback for the creator/future reviewers while reviewing this article: Thank you for this new article on Parasocial relationships, but it largely repeats a previous Wikipedia article, and I recommend that the two be merged. See Talk:Parasocial interaction. ---  DOOMSDAYER 520 (Talk&#124;Contribs) 22:23, 17 December 2019 (UTC)