Talk:Role model

message: This article was cited by Phil Gould in the Sun Herald on August 13, 2006 in Footballers are people, not saints. Andjam 01:20, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: For reference: the article as it was at that time.  --HughCharlesParker (talk - contribs) 21:09, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Phil Gould 

message: This article had most of its text taken out.  I wasn't prepared to reinstate most of it, though - it was all unsourced, and was a collection of descriptions of its common usage, rather than an encyclopedia article.  I've re-written it.  I hope it's OK.  --HughCharlesParker (talk - contribs) 16:30, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rewrite 

message: This article seems to imply that the term "role model" was invented in 2004. Surely that is incorrect. Could Merton's original article be cited here?UMinnAstro (talk) 09:31, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Term invention date? 

message: Considering how everyone has taken to forcing celebrities to be role models, I'm really surprised that this article doesn't mention that at all. It only mentions physicians as being role models for their patients, something I think is not widely known or given much thought in comparison to celebrities. Whip it! Now whip it good! 03:28, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think that it would be helpful to provide celebrity names in this article - I don't see how that would help anyone understand what a role model is.  --HughCharlesParker (talk - contribs) 13:31, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

text: No, I don't think so.  This is an encyclopedia, so we need to be defining and describing what a role model is, what Merton meant, how the term is used, etc.  To list individuals currently seen as role models doesn't serve that aim.  I agree the article could do with expanding, though, if someone reading this knows Merton's work well, or is willing to read up.  --HughCharlesParker (talk - contribs) 16:46, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with Hugh Charles Parker - unless somebody has an interesting study about, say, a certain celebrity and in which way s/he is or has been a role model, that can be used as a reference. Lova Falk talk 16:10, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Added information on role models of British school children, according to their teachers. User:Fred Bauder Talk 15:12, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

text: I agree.  I'd even go further - I'm not sure how it helps the article to give examples of particular individuals who might be considered role models.  Comments, anyone, or should Dan go ahead and fix it?  --HughCharlesParker (talk - contribs) 20:12, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  That's it? 

message: This article only discusses individual role model. What about a nation or country? A company? A group of people? And more? Benjasmine (talk) 13:49, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can a nation be a role model? 

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message: The first sentence of the article says: "person whose behaviour, example, or success is or can be emulated by others". Is it really emulated that is meant here? Or shouldn't it be "immitated" instead? The meaning a quite opposite I guess.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:861:44C3:23D0:75BA:366:B14E:9445 (talk) 10:21, 5 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Emulated vs immitated?