Talk:Imitation

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Studies have also shown mirror neurons in monkeys. Im right now writing a little article about the matter and ill probally later return here to review this again.

Tobibobi 12:05, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

There are some crazy idiots in the world who want to pretend Humans are somehow unique and "better" and if another animal does something it's not like how humans do it. Such fools. Anonywiki (talk) 00:00, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

The automatic imitation section is awful and does not explain social mimicry at all. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7F:C72:AF00:9802:AD5B:8BA:3CAB (talk) 01:59, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

Adam

Why is Adam of the Bible mentioned. I doubt that many anthropologist support the statement that all human cultures are an imitation of Adam of the Bible. 1 week and I will correct this piece of misinformation, if it is not supported by reference. 72.204.28.203 (talk) 10:04, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Vandalism

Is this meant to be included, "Imitation is a replication of a meme."? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.51.112.58 (talk) 04:41, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

Copying edit history from a merge of AfC content

Strictly speaking, this isn't legally necessary but it will help if files get moved or deleted: With this set of consecutive edits, the then-current content of Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Imitation in animals was pasted into Imitation as a new section, with minimal or no editing. Here is the edit history of that page:

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Edit to Imitation in Animals Section

Hi all, I am a student editor and I just wanted to mention that I made an edit to the imitation in animals section, as there was a clean up banner for it. I Edited the definition in it for the imitation in animals, making it a bit more clear and concise. I also added references which were missing previously. But I cannot see my citations in the regular view, but when I go into edit mode, they are there. So I am not sure why it is doing that. I will go back and look at it and try to fix it again soon. Cheers. Macparent (talk) 14:23, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

The citations look to be added and it looks all good now

Macparent (talk) 18:06, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

Requested move 16 October 2026

• Imitation → Imitation (behavior)
• Imitation (disambiguation) → Imitation

– Behavior is not the obvious primary topic. "Imitation" can also mean replica or copying. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 06:18, 16 October 2026 (UTC)

Oppose, just being an alternate definition of the word doesn't make it an equal primary topic. This is the original basis of learning and "imitation" is relatively uncommon as a synonym for either a replica or a copy. Ladtrack (talk) 07:32, 16 October 2026 (UTC)

on that claim, since it's backed up by zero evidence and is just an assumption.

To give one example, "imitation diamond" is not used as much as "fake diamond", but still used a decent amount. In another, "imitation cheese" is used the same amount as "fake cheese" or "cheese substitute". "Imitation crab" is used more than "fake crab" or crab stick, the current article title. While I'm not sure if these equate directly to replica or copy as written in those respective articles, they definitely don't refer to humans imitating the behavior of a diamond. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 14:40, 16 October 2026 (UTC)

I will also note that Category:Imitation foods exists but has no broad concept article. It's conceivable that if there were one, it could just be referred to as "imitation" since imitation is also an adjective. (i.e. "that cheese is imitation"). I still think moving the page is pertinent now because it can refer to things like leather or gemstones ("that leather is imitation" or "that diamond is imitation"). ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 14:49, 16 October 2026 (UTC)

• Support the behaviour has 1,235 views but the TV series has 5,069, the music has 604, the art has 226 and the film has 28[]. Crouch, Swale (talk) 17:01, 16 October 2026 (UTC)

  Come on, this is a basic behavioral concept. There's no way a TV show should be considered as if it was an equal primary topic contender. It entirely lacks long-term significance. Ladtrack (talk) 17:53, 16 October 2026 (UTC)