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::I appreciate the gesture of credit, but I was really more following a suggestion implicit in Mathsci's comments that an article like [[Group differences and intelligence]] might be a good way to go. Having said that, I can see a few dangers in the details being proposed here. My thought was a single article of which racial topics is only a small part rather than a parent article to group together the current bunch of stand-alone articles. Just off the top of my head, some potential problems that occur to me include:

**::* the race / IQ article would have the same battles as the current article

**::* if issues of problems with IQ testing (for example) are all covered by the parent article and thus excluded from the child articles, the child articles if read in isolation could present a misleading impression

**::* warring on the parent article could easily occur without other editors of the article recognising the reasons behind the disputes

**::* having an article that must be read as a precursor for another article to be comprehensible seems a poor precedent to set. Does WP even have navigation templates to inform readers that article X is necessary background reading for article Y? Wikilinks for when a reader seeks additional information are fine, but necessary background seems to me to be an implicit part of an article, not something to restrict to a parent article

::Unless there is way too much material for a sensibly sized but still thorough article on [[Group differences and intelligence]] then my gut instinct is that keeping material together in a single article with the race issues kept as a small part is a preferable way forward. [[User:EdChem|EdChem]] ([[User talk:EdChem|talk]]) 13:40, 31 July 2010 (UTC)