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re: split proposal

Latest comment: 2 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Considering it's been over a year and there has been no discussion whatsoever, I will be removing the split tag. While I think technically this might warrant an article over the psychological/sociological aspects of reward and punishment, this article is primarily about the penal aspect of punishment and there's actually relatively little in this article about that to split off. Punishment (psychology) would be a better article to split off from, and even then I think this is probably covered by other articles. PARAKANYAA (talk) 09:19, 23 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

Octopuses

Latest comment: 2 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Regarding the subsection entitled Examples against sociobiological use in this article: The references do not support the assertions made about the octopuses that are discussed. Hence, I have removed the paragraph regarding the octopuses (here). I also briefly checked the Wikipedia article entitled "Octopus vulgaris" and could find nothing there. When reliable sources are available feel free to restore the removed content.

I also moved the two references that were not on point to the end of this subsection. Personally, I don't remove sources from an article. I just move them, as I did in this instance. Additionally, one of the moved sources cites a one hour long documentary. Without the minutes that cover the assertions made this source is not helpful. -Lastly, I am thinking that the paragraph following this removed one may not be supported by the sources in this section. ---Steve Quinn (talk) 19:09, 23 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

Criminal focus

Latest comment: 8 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Why does this focus so much on criminals? Criminals aren’t the only ones being punished. What about people breaking rules? Suspension, detention, and expulsion are also punishments. Getting fired for breaking work related rules is also a punishment. WikiGrower1 (talk) 15:00, 1 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

This is a good point and differentiation between punishment outside of the CJS context need to be made although this particular article is focused on the latter EditorialProject (talk) 08:04, 24 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

This page was redesigned at the edge.

re: split proposal

Octopuses

Criminal focus