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The result was delete. ✗plicit 07:13, 28 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Lone wolf (trait)[edit]

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Fifteen years after this article's creation, it is still more or less an extended dictionary definition. Fully three-fifths of the sources cited are dictionaries. Google Scholar results for "lone wolf" trait and "lone wolf" personality mainly deal with lone wolf terrorism, with a few studies of "lone wolf" behavior in salespeople and some accidental hits from trivial uses of the term in other contexts. The one academic source I found describing a general "lone wolf" behavior type in people is more than sixty years old,^[1] suggesting the topic is somewhat of a fringe concept. I'm not seeing sufficient material for either a single-topic or broad-concept article. Properly referenced information on actual wolf behavior can be included under Wolf; the rest can be handled via the disambiguation page Lone wolf. --Sangdeboeuf (talk) 04:28, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Animal-related deletion discussions. Sangdeboeuf (talk) 03:51, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Behavioural science-related deletion discussions. Sangdeboeuf (talk) 03:51, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge with Wolf. As for the part about "Human lone wolves", all of the information there is covered in Loner already. Plutonical (talk) 14:33, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete This is weird, unnecessary synthesis to combine a trait describing people in the lead, then information about actual wolves in the section. Loner can cover the former and Wolf#Social_structure the latter. Reywas92^Talk 13:21, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Between the existing articles on "loners" and "lone wolf attacks", there is simply no need for this. Iskandar323 (talk) 17:07, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete an attempt at a broad-concept article that is just dictionary definitions; perhaps a one-sentence definition is needed on the DAB page Lone Wolf but there is nothing else to keep. User:力 (power~enwiki, π, ν) 19:52, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - there's no need for an overview on these topics. It's not a particularly applicable concept for overall animal behaviour because different species have wildly varying social structures. Further, similar behaviours in different species would have different terms. A "lone meerkat" (for instance) is a meerkat that has dispersed from their group - a "lone wolf meerkat" would be a very clunky construction and it would inadequately describe the behaviour. --Xurizuri (talk) 02:12, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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