Talk:Stereotypical behavior

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[edit] expand coverage?

I have seen this term used in the context of human patients with neurological or psycological problems. If you understand this subject well, it think the article should be modified to explain that this concept doesn't only apply to non-human animals. ike9898 (talk) 16:17, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

This article deals exclusively with animal behavior. I suspect that the term, if applied to humans, has a somewhat different meaning, since the disciplines of psychology and neurology have a very different approach. If someone wants to create a separate article for "stereotypical behavior" in humans, it can be disambiguated. --Ginkgo100^talk 18:23, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

There already is one: Stereotypy. I'm not familiar with animal psychology, so I am not sure that adding an explanation to the effect that "stereotypy is used to refer to humans" would be correct or not. Haplolology ^Talk/_{Contributions} 20:48, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Too many articles! Can we merge some?

Look what I found:

Stereotypy
Stereotypy (psychiatry)
Stereotypical behavior
Stereotypic movement disorder
Stimming

I am well aware that these are not synonyms, in fact I attempted to write about the distinctions myself, but surely we dont need to have a separate article for each one? I think that at least the first three on this list should all be merged into just Stereotypy, with redirects placed on the second and third. Who's with me? Haplolology ^Talk/_{Contributions} 21:25, 26 December 2007 (UTC)