Template talk:Humandevelopment
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[edit] Problems with template
I'm not sure this template should exist under this name. At the moment, the name combines two fields, developmental psychology and biology. Most of the links go to pages that deal with psychology and not biology, and some of the links go to pages that deal with biology and not psychology. Of course developmental psychologists (I am one) take account of biological factors in their research, but hard core biology is considered a separate field. Biologists often take no account of psychology in their work. A combined template is misleading, because it implies the existence of a unified biological/psychological field of study, which doesn't really correspond to reality. The template above implies that this is a psychology template. If that is really the aim, it should be made more clear both in the name of the template, and in policies that evolve in the process of the design of the template. Alternative names for the template might be "Humandevelopment(psychology)" or "Developmentalpsychology". Perhaps two templates would be best (one each for psychology and biology), with links to the respective fields within psychology and biology, and also a prominent (bolded) link to the other field, to show how closely related these two approaches to studying human development are. -DoctorW 18:50, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
- One template would work with separate lines for the biology & psychology. But looking at the articles linked you can see how patchy Wikipedia coverage of this area is, both biological and psychological, in terms of quality & comprehensiveness. Paul foord 22:49, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
