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Copied from Talk:Human development (biology):

It seems to me that anyone who would propose or support a suggested merge of Human development (biology) into Human development is not aware that Human development is also a psychological field by the same name. Biological human development simply cannot have the name all to itself. I just Googled "Department of human development" which found 180,000 pages, and ALL of the top ten pages refer to the psychological study of human development. There needs to be more than simply a redirect of Human development (psychology) to Developmental psychology. -DoctorW 17:37, 29 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The person who placed the proposed merge tag in June never commented! (Neither has anyone else.) I'm going to remove the tag. I believe that the existence of a disambiguation page in this case is non-negotiable anyway (see my comments immediately above). The psychological study of "human development" (known by that name as well as by the name "developmental psychology") cannot be ignored. Academic departments named "Human Development" refer to the psychological study. It has its own identity, and a very significant presence. Wikipedia has no choice but to acknowledge it. -DoctorW 03:58, 1 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please see Template talk:Humandevelopment. -DoctorW 18:59, 27 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The phrase "Human development" as an academic field (university department) almost always refers to psychology; the phrase must remain on the disambiguation page. -DoctorW 22:44, 19 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]