Wikipedia: Sex symbol/Talk

(Moved these here until they get some entries to link to)

See also : [Sex appeal]?,sexy?,[sexual attractiveness]?.

That's not how you do it. You leave the broken links in the main article. That way people can see them and say "We have all those articles on Atlas Shrugged, but no article on [Sex appeal]?? How can this be? I won't stand for it. I will write something on Sex appeal right now!"

This is one of the main mechanisms for getting new articles written on Wikipedia. Please don't break it. -- Geronimo Jones.

Wikipedia is not a dictionary (also Encyclopedia and or versus dictionary). I doubt we need entries for [Sex appeal]?,sexy?,[sexual attractiveness]?. (If you want to prove me wrong, have at it. :-) )

Sexual attractiveness is probably a big one. Many biologists quietly suspect it plays a much bigger part in evolution of the species than the usual suspects (camoflage, being big and fast, being tall to reach the acacia leaves etc). Probably there are massive amounts of academic work out there on this subject, for both humans and other animals, and across a wide range of academic disciples. It would definitely make a good article, but as a non-biologist, i leave it to others :-) The other two topics are less clearly worthwhile, maybe they could be deleted.

My point though, is that deleting a silly link because it is silly maybe ok, but NEVER delete a link just because it points at an article that doesn't exist yet. Broken links are probably the most important growth mechanism in the whole of Wikipedia.

: Ok!! I thought moving the links to the / Talk page was a good compromise. (And I notice that no one has yet taken it upon themselves to restore them to the main entry page for Sex symbol.)

Hmm, looks like Wikipedia is still light on meaningful entries on sex symbols. Don't know what that says about our range of interests. :-)

I'm really wondering how long my bit of graffiti in the main article will last... it's already been more than 12 hours...! Either every one else is playing along, or people don't copyedit as thoroughly as they should. - MB

Here is a note by the BBC on British Sex Symbols (including Ann Widdecombe) [1]