Talk:Dating coach

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Contents 1 Neutrality 2 NPoV 3 Dating seminar points 4 "Transmission" section 5 Overlap with seduction community

[edit] Neutrality

I put that template up because I'm assuming that there are dating coaches who do the same service for women — there's no need for Wikipedia to be exclusively male-oriented. — Lenoxus 09:53, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

By and large, most dating coaches work primarily with men, given that this is the group giving the greatest demand. There are some female dating coaches (that is, dating coaches who are female and/or cater to a female audience) - for instance, Double Your Dating has several ebooks for women.

However, a lot of what is taught works regardless of gender or sexuality - one newsletter I receive commonly features questions from female as well as male readers. — Sasuke Sarutobi 01:06, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

I suspect people who are aiming at helping women are mainly going by another name instead? Mathmo ^Talk 10:09, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

I'm going to edit this article because I have studied many different dating coaches, male and female. A correction about Double Your Dating is that it's a brand for men by David DeAngelo Communications. "Catch Him And Keep Him" is an ebook, audio and DVD program produced by the same company featuring a different spokesperson: Christian Carter. The person behind Double Your Dating is David DeAngelo, also pseudonym. Anyway there are many established dating coaches who have been written up in the news media so I will be citing several notable sources. ultraman 17:50, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Your first edit made the lead even less NPoV, I'm afraid. Note also the need for sources if you're going to edit extensively. --Mel Etitis (Talk) 17:35, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

A lot of dating coaches call themselves "life coaches" and help people with other issues besides dating. Sarsaparilla (talk) 18:13, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] NPoV

The article reads like a puff for this "industry"; at the very least the language needs to be made more neutral, but criticism should also be included and cited. --Mel Etitis (Talk) 12:40, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Agreed. A good place to start in improving the page might be mentioning the movie Hitch, which will supply some notability. --SecondSight 20:33, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

There is also Magnolia and How to Pick Up Girls. I may look at adding movies to my ongoing Seduction community template. — Sasuke Sarutobi 01:06, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

I don't really see how Hollywood films supply notability in any legitimate way. Nor does any of this address the PoV issue. --Mel Etitis (Talk) 08:27, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

They do, it is highly widespread usage of the phrase in commonplace media (i.e. multiple directors (and/or other people involved in the production of a film) found this worthy of noting). Mathmo ^Talk 10:10, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Is there much controversy about dating coaches? My only beef with them is that they tend to charge some high rates. You could say the same about most counselors/therapists/psychiatrists/etc., though. The downside to this particular kind is that it probably wouldn't be covered by insurance. Captain Zyrain 00:34, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dating seminar points

If anyone wants an idea of the kind of tips you might get at a dating seminar, see User:Captain Zyrain/Dating seminar points. Captain Zyrain 19:16, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Transmission" section

"Tranmission" seems like a strange section heading for this article. It makes it sounds like it's an STD or something. What about "methods" or "services"? Any other ideas? Sarsaparilla (talk) 18:13, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

that is weird, probably could look through the history to find out when that happened. I don't recall such an edit being made to change it like that, but there have been big gaps in my watching on this page. anyway, lets change it to methods/technique/whatever. Mathmo ^Talk 02:15, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Overlap with seduction community

I was thinking that the content about forming meaningful relationships might go here, while the content about getting laid within seven hours of meeting a chick might be better placed in seduction community. However, I can see there might be some overlap. How can we resolve this? Thanks, Obuibo Mbstpo (talk) 23:19, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

I quite like the loose line you draw, I'm not sure we'll see much overlap if we stick to that :-) I also think keeping in mind that this is an article about coaching and not tips, stories, and seminars would also help. -- SiobhanHansa 01:41, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Well, it seems to get muddied because a lot of dating coaches also conduct seminars. It's kinda like how CPAs don't just do audits; they also do taxes, consulting, payroll, etc. So if you have an articles about Certified Public Accountant, it will probably end up touching on those subjects. Should we change the name of the article to dating coaching? Obuibo Mbstpo (talk) 01:49, 7 March 2008 (UTC)