Talk:Human cannibalism

Sensory warfare

It is a form of alternative sensory warfare used to humiliate enemies, practiced in front of survivors to intimidate them.(see: "Sensory Worlds in Early America")

Name of the "Recent history" section?

Roger 8 Roger, you had renamed the "Modern era" section (which follows the "History" section) to "Early 20th century to present". I had further renamed it to "Recent times", pointing out that the name you used might fit into the History section, but certainly not after it. You have reverted that edit, arguing that "recent" is too vague a term. I do not entirely disagree, but that leaves the question what to do with that section unanswered.

One option would be to move it one level down, into the History section. Then the current title could stay, but it's a long and deeply nested section, and having to move all its subsections down doesn't seem ideal. I also suppose that's the reason why it's currently a main section. But if it stays outside the "History" section, then the current title cannot stay and needs to be changed again – so which title or resolution would you, and others here, suggest? Personally I think that "Recent times" or "Cannibalism is recent times" is good enough, since the contents of the section quickly clarify which time period is meant. Another more specific option would be "After World War I" or "Cannibalism after World War I". Gawaon (talk) 17:36, 6 May 2023 (UTC)

I started moving it into the history section and came up against the problems you mention here, so I left it alone. I think it is common elsewhere to have the final history subsection a period up to the present which would be ideal here. However, the contents list does have to be re-arranged a bit to accommodate it. Why not just do it? I always prefer avoiding non-specific terms like recent. Modern times is also often misused, with modern history meaning something different from contemporary history. Roger 8 Roger (talk) 22:29, 6 May 2023 (UTC)

OK, I'll soon start moving it under the History section, flattening its structure a bit to prevent the nesting from getting too deep. I think I'll also move the "Individual acts" into the specific regions were they were committed. Right now, Fritz Haarmann, Joachim Kroll, Peter Stumpp etc. are listed under "Germany", but Armin Meiwes is listed under "Individual acts" – that doesn't make much sense. Gawaon (talk) 11:05, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

The basic re-organization is complete, though doubtless much cleanup work still remains to be done. Gawaon (talk) 17:07, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 17 June 2023

"Alfred Packer" misspelt as "Alferd Packer" 122.199.45.88 (talk) 05:14, 17 June 2023 (UTC)

 Not done: See Alferd Packer#cite note-1 Heart ^(talk) 05:20, 17 June 2023 (UTC)

Typo

Can't edit as semi-protected. "Believes" should be "beliefs" in 3rd paragraph under Exo-, endo- and autocannibalism Felixhj (talk) 23:44, 4 September 2023 (UTC)

Thank you. I agree and have modified the word to beliefs. CMacMillan (talk) 23:46, 4 September 2023 (UTC)

Aboriginal Australian Section

Offers the long discredited claim that they were hunter-gatherers when extensive evidence suggests they were agriculturalists. Other pages have been updated, not sure why this one isn't.