User talk:Dpinsof

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Perhaps merge the Human mating strategies article into the Mating (human) article?
Hello, Dpinsof. The Human mating strategies and Mating (human) articles should be merged, in my opinion; by that, I mean that I see no reason for these articles to be separate. See WP:Content fork for where I am coming from on this matter.

If you reply to me about this, there is no need to reply on my talk page; I currently have your talk page WP:Watchlisted. Flyer22 (talk) 22:21, 2 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Hello, Flyer22. Thanks for the comment. It is a fair point, but the page on human mating strategies is not meant to be a general coverage of human mating. Rather the page is meant to provide an overview of a specific body of research within the field of evolutionary psychology. The word "strategy" is crucial, as it defines mating behaviors in terms of the costs and benefits of different behaviors over evolutionary time. There is much research is on human mating that does not take an evolutionary, strategic, cost/benefit approach, and this other research should not be conflated with the research presented within the human mating strategies page. Ideally, the mating (human) page would include an entry on "evolutionary approaches to mating," which would contain a link to the human mating strategies page. The mating (human) appears to be significantly underdeveloped, however. Perhaps a better approach would be to contact the author of that page and make suggestions for further development. Dpinsof (talk) 23:27, 2 December 2013‎ (UTC)


 * Dpinsof, I understand the reasoning behind having a Human mating strategies article. However, because that topic is an aspect of human mating and the Mating (human) article is currently not far from being a WP:Stub, I suggested that the articles be merged. I don't see the harm in having these articles merged. Per WP:Content fork, we should strive to keep aspects of a topic in one article instead of causing readers to go to multiple articles...unless necessary. If the Mating (human) article already had this content in it and a WP:Split was justified due to WP:SIZE, I would be more understanding of keeping these articles separate. That stated, merging the Human mating strategies article into the Mating (human) article would currently make the latter significantly more about the former, and I'm not too interested in pressing this proposal. As for contacting the author of a Wikipedia article, Wikipedia articles have more than one author and the vast majority of people who created a Wikipedia article are no longer editing Wikipedia or rather no longer editing that article they created. In this case, the editor who created the Mating (human) article is still active on Wikipedia, but, being very familiar with that editor, I don't believe that he will expand the article to the degree that it should be expanded and with the level of WP:Reliable sources required. So I'd rather that editor not be contacted about this. Again, I'm not pressing this matter.


 * On a side note: I removed your heading from your reply to me; using a heading to reply is not how WP:TALK is supposed to work, unless initially taking a matter to a talk page. The heading kept our replies separate. I additionally used WP:Indent on your reply. Also, remember to sign your username at the end of the comments you make on Wikipedia talk pages. All you have to do to sign your username is simply type four tildes (~), like this: . I signed your username for you above. Flyer22 (talk) 00:06, 3 December 2013 (UTC)