Talk:Social buffering
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![]() | A fact from Social buffering appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 19 January 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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[edit]Hi All! I have just created this page to add to the psychology knowledge that's out there. I'm open to feedback, ideas, and edits to help make this topic accessible and reflective of what we know about "Social buffering". Thanks! Effblandl (talk) 09:16, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
Wiki Education assignment: Psychology 220A
[edit] This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 2 October 2023 and 15 December 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Effblandl (article contribs).
— Assignment last updated by Effblandl (talk) 09:30, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
Did you know nomination
[edit]- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 11:57, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
- ... that sheep can get less stressed when looking at pictures of other sheep? Source: da Costa, Ana P.; Leigh, Andrea E.; Man, Mei-See; Kendrick, Keith M. (2004-10-07). "Face pictures reduce behavioural, autonomic, endocrine and neural indices of stress and fear in sheep". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences. 271 (1552): 2077–2084. doi:10.1098/rspb.2004.2831. ISSN 0962-8452.
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Created by Effblandl (talk). Self-nominated at 22:55, 29 November 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Social buffering; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.
General: Article is new enough and long enough |
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Policy compliance:
- Adequate sourcing:
- No
- Neutral:
- Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:
Hook eligibility:
- Cited:
- Interesting:
- Other problems:
- The cited fact is a stretch to include on the article for social buffering.
QPQ: Done. |
Overall: @Effblandl: At the moment I see significant barriers for promotion. There is a large amount of unsourced material in the article. At minimum each paragraph must end with a reference and all of the material in the article must be backed up by a reference. The sentence for the cited hook:
Visual cues - In certain animals, visual cues may be enough to evoke the effects of social buffering. These effects were shown in sheep, where seeing pictures of other sheep's faces reduced behavioral and physiological stress responses.
is cited to an article that does not mention the concept of social buffering (and I see several other bits in the article that seem to suggest similar WP:SYNTH). ~ F4U (talk • they/it) 05:51, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
- @Effblandl: Please address the above. Z1720 (talk) 03:54, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
- @Z1720: I have reviewed and edited the article based on feedback--waiting for F4U to respond. Thank you for the ping!Effblandl (talk)
- @Freedom4U: Is this article approved? If not, what needs to be done? Z1720 (talk) 19:25, 23 December 2023 (UTC)
- @Z1720: Sorry! My bad, I was under the impression that I had responded. The hook is approved
~ F4U (talk • they/it) 19:30, 23 December 2023 (UTC)
- @Z1720: Sorry! My bad, I was under the impression that I had responded. The hook is approved