Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Multiplicity (psychology) (2nd nomination)
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The result was merge to Multiplicity (subculture). Liz Read! Talk! 03:46, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
Multiplicity (psychology)
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Original redirecter @WP:RGW alternate page to the psychologically accepted definition. This argument is not accepted as a real one. If it is, please identify better sources than the ones that were included and said basically nothing about "multiplicity" as being differentiated from dissociative identities"
Note: I as proposer take no stance on this yet, but am bringing to AfD to get perspective on keep, redirect, or delete. lizthegrey (talk) 01:20, 23 September 2023 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Psychiatry and Psychology. lizthegrey (talk) 01:20, 23 September 2023 (UTC)
- Merge into Multiplicity (subculture), rather than to Dissociative identity disorder. The original proposal to remove the article is correct that we shouldn't have two articles about the same psychological phenomenon, but I think people are better served by a direction to (subculture) than to DID. subculture already links to DID, and subculture and psychology aspects are not sufficiently distinct to deserve their own articles. lizthegrey (talk) 02:46, 23 September 2023 (UTC)
- Merge with Multiplicity (subculture): There is a sizeable overlap between the community and the psychological state of being plural. Since both of these articles are very short, it would make sense to discuss both aspects in the same place. One could debate as to which title the resulting article should be under, but that is another debate for another day. Similarly, any attempt to merge the resulting article into dissociative identity disorder would probably require another discussion. ―Susmuffin Talk 09:33, 23 September 2023 (UTC)
- Comment Unclear to me whether the parenthetical "(psychology)" is appropriately disambiguated to the subculture article. There don't seem to be a lot of sources which say that psychology recognizes "multiplicity" as a group identifier -- which isn't surprising as psychology is pretty individualistic when it comes right down to it. As far as I can tell, DID remains the main organizing principle for this concept within the context of psychology. An alternative would be to Delete the redirect entirely as it is not clear to me that this is a normal search term. jps (talk) 17:48, 23 September 2023 (UTC)
- Merge into Multiplicity (subculture) per Lizthegrey. Some1 (talk) 18:00, 23 September 2023 (UTC)
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