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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 12:46, 15 October 2020 (UTC)

Human uses of animals

Hi, I see you are developing extensive materials on some recent aspects of this. To my mind, these are way too much for the top-level overview article. They may perhaps be appropriate for some more detailed articles further down the tree. I hope this is clear to you - what I mean is that there is a hierarchy, which in a different situation might go

Germany

Sports in Germany

Equestrian sports in Germany

Equestrian gymnastics in Germany

Dressage in Germany

...

Ball games in Germany

Swimming sports in Germany

...

I hope you get the idea. Now, the Cultural uses of animals is *right at the top* of the tree, i.e. the *very worst* place to think of as a place to start adding great lumps of new material. Add them down the bottom somewhere ("Equestrian gymnastics in Germany"); then make a **VERY** short summary and add that to the next level up ("Equestrian sports in Germany"). Then, ***IF*** the matter seems remotely important enough, add an ****EVEN SHORTER*** summary of that article to the one above it ("Sports in Germany"). Finally, if anything that has changed seems to make the tiniest bit of difference at the very topmost pinnacle of the tree, consider three times before POSSIBLY adding the tiniest, shortest, most compact, most economical, one-word summary to the top level. Or possibly not.

Now, the Human uses of animals article is parent to a sizeable tree of articles; indeed, really, to multiple trees. Animals include Mammals and Reptiles and Birds and Molluscs and so on, and many of those have their own "Human uses of...". Next, there are articles on Animals in art and Animals in this and Animals in that. There's even one on Animal-assisted therapy, for instance. There are whole areas where articles are possible but nobody has got around to writing them - Animals in medicine might be your cup of tea, perhaps. There's one on Working animals which is at the top of the tree of a whole lot of individual working species, all the way down to Service dog and Therapy dog; it's also above Service animal and potentially many more articles around that area. Starting to get the idea, hmm?

Adding stuff at the top level implies that you are generalising about bird-assisted therapy, crocodile-assisted therapy, mollusc-assisted therapy, and so on and so forth: i.e. it's the wrong place. I do hope this point is clear.

Many thanks for your understanding. Chiswick Chap (talk) 19:01, 10 December 2020 (UTC)