User talk:Meiklec

Parasitism articles
Hi, and thanks for your edits.

Please note that Parasitism is the top-level article with many subsidiary articles. These include Emery's rule (as you know) and Social parasitism (biology), which you may wish to add to.

The top-level article on any subject is intended to summarize the whole topic, providing a broad and reliable overview.

More detailed coverage of subsidiary topics is achieved by naming those topics very briefly in the top-level article and linking to subsidiary articles. Large topics often actually have a tree of articles so the top-level article only even names the first level of subsidiaries, which in turn have sub-sub-topics covered in further articles.

It is not desirable to have extensive detail on sub- or sub-sub-topics in the top-level article. A good guide is that when there is a list of sub-topics, each one should be dealt with roughly equally, often in a single short paragraph.

All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:09, 18 November 2019 (UTC)