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Sweetheart is a dis-ambiguation page. This link cannot be dis-ambiguated, and so what is the best thing to do?? 66.32.242.236 21:43, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I wrote a message at Talk:Boyfriend about merging these articles. See that talk page for details. 66.245.98.79 18:49, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)
See Talk:Boyfriend for further discussion. Andrewa 00:44, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
The page for girlfriend is short, I also suggest that the two articles are to be merged together. Pathbinder 13:25, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
Where's the evidence that dating strongly implies sex now, or ever? lysdexia 01:25, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)
According to Vfd, this article will probably have a consensus to keep; whereas Boyfriend will probably have no consensus. Why so?? 66.245.28.46 00:05, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)
In Wikipedia, it says that this term is commonly used to describe same-gender, non-romantic friends, but that "boyfriend" is not-so-commonly used this way. What, then, is the masculine equivalent?? Georgia guy 23:46, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
The word bro, or buddy, or boy. As in he is my bro, or he is my boy —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.40.115.150 ( talk) 19:19, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
I'm a little worried at the non-specific nature of the reference to usage of "womanfriend" as an alternative to "manfriend". Removals on the basis that "I've never heard of it" are possible so long as no source is cited. So long as we rely on subjunctive impressions, we may be in trouble. Slac speak up! 02:27, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
Dictionaries recognize ladyfriend, but not womanfriend as an alternative. I'm adding to the article that womanfriend is less common than the more common ladyfriend.
In the synonyms section, I've added partner. I'll try to find a source. If someone else could find one it'd be appreciated. Isopropyl 01:34, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
Origins and first use of the word "girlfriend", as appears on the Boyfriend article?
Does Wikipedia's attempt to "generalize" everyging sound like political correctness or is it just me?
ガアルフレンッド) ガアルフレンッド was poorly written. It should be ガールフレンド. A Google search for ガアルフレンッド brings up no results other than this article, ガアルフレンド brings up about 142 results where as ガールフレン gets about 161,000. ンッド is virtually never seen and ガール is preferred to ガアル though both are pronounced the same way.
In addition, the male equivalent would be "ボーイフレンド", not ボイフレンド. The male equivalent of kanojo 彼女 is kareshi 彼氏.
I take issue with the statement that ガールフレンド in Japanese has no romantic connotations. I lived there for eight years from 1994-2002, and I saw both romantic and non-romantic usages.
I'm also pretty sure all this is incorrect. ガールフレンド often means the same as in English. 彼女 mostly just means she/her/that woman etc... There might be a difference between usage in young Japanese and older Japanese - we need a Japanese expert here!-- Hontogaichiban 16:41, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
I'm a resident of Japan and am currently sitting in a room full of Japanese people. A quick chat with everyone tells me not only does ガールフレンド strongly contain a 恋人 (lover) meaning, but it is an infrequently used word. I don't believe a section on the Japanese use belongs here -- at best, it belongs in the List of gairaigo and wasei-eigo terms. Also wikipedia is not a dictionary, especially an English-Japanese dictionary, and again especially for an infrequently used word. My humble opinion. clay 03:19, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
I took issue with this section as well and based on the consensus here, have removed it. QVanillaQ 03:32, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
I think it's about time we need an Afd template for the nominations similar to one of GNAA. Any objections?? Georgia guy 20:19, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
Sometimes, the phrase girl friend (with a space) or friend girl is used to avoid confusion with the romantic meaning.
I am an English native speaker and I have never heard of the expression "friend girl". Please cite a reference. -- Thoughtcat 14:04, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
I want to know if there is any reason to allow un-registered Wikipedians to add the unreferenced template. Georgia guy 17:39, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
can it be removed from every article actually
Why was the picture, captioned "My girlfriend" removed? Privacy? Impracticality? -- Maier 03 03:20, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
I suggest that someone should remove the popular culture section. There are probably innumberable references to girlfriends in popular culture. Even the ones on the list are not that notable. Andy120290 20:16, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
When used by a girl or woman about another female in a non-sexual, non-romantic context, the 2-word form "girl friend" is usually used to avoid confusion with the romantic meaning, as with "boy friend" when used by males to describe their non-romantic male friends.
Baloney. Women regularly use the word "girlfriend" to describe their platonic female friends, but men never use the word "boyfriend" to describe equivalent relationships between male friends. This is a quirk of our language. marbeh raglaim 18:13, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
Why is a link to a definition of some cartoon in here? It doesn't make sense that anyone would need this. 205.206.239.158 00:55, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
"Boo boo kitty fuck" looks like vandalism to me. Any references for this? 75.37.19.44 20:49, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
This article doesn't help me to get a girlfriend at all. So much for being a neutral reprository of knowledge. I'm sad that this article is here to stay. The article on golf tells you how to play golf. I'm sure that the article on oil can somehow help you to aquire oil. But why not the article on girlfriends? >=( 76.84.191.230 ( talk) 08:13, 31 December 2007 (UTC) AnAngryBachelor
I'm initiating the formal merge process (not for the first time, by the looks of things) following the failed AfD (see link above). The AfD was closed "Speedy Keep" as a bad-faith ( WP:POINT) nomination, and therefore can't be re-nominated for six months: however, the closing admin's comment was "If the nominator wants it to be turned into dab page, then they should do so." I'm not the original nominator, but I'm more than happy to take up the running on his behalf.
This page is little more than a dictionary definition, which we already have at the top of the dab page. I'm sure that an explanation of the difference between "girlfriend" and "girl friend" wouldn't require more than one extra sentence, and I don't see what additional content this article has at the moment. The last genuine AfD was the third one (again, see above), closed in April 2006 with a "Keep" result - but many of the "Keep" opinions were along the lines of "potential for improvement". I don't believe that the article has such potential, and, even if I'm wrong on that point, I don't see any evidence that any improvement has occurred. I'm therefore proposing that "Girlfriend" becomes a dab page, with the content that's now at Girlfriend (disambiguation).
Why is there such a big gap between the lead and the first section? bibliomaniac 1 5 04:52, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
I am getting a little concerned that there are some people on here who are "trying" to change the way people asume of the word Girlfriend. Girlfriend (as a dictionary definition out of Collins) clearly states, a female friend or "A female in a non marital romantic relationship with ref. usually a male". Stop trying to change the optinion people have on the word. For some reason, I don't know why some people can't contemplate the word being used in a romantic sense. For heaven, sake a Girlfriend is a Female partner in a non-marital romantic relationship! -- Steven Hipkins ( talk) 12:41, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
I have also since removed the picture, which is some what inappropriate to the article and totally doesn't have any correspondance to the article itself. Nice thought though, if we are going to have a picture of it, the boyfriend article needs a pictures of 2 males together in the same context - as it has the same meaning. -- Steven Hipkins ( talk) 12:45, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
I'm sorry I disagree with you - you keep removing EVERY single mention that it is to with a relationship with a male, why can I ask, are you doing this - does this sentence make you squirm - "My Girlfriend is Beautiful". I bet it does because for some reason, you can't take that the word girlfriend means that it's a non marital romantic relationship with a male. -- Steven Hipkins ( talk) 15:43, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
I've been watching this edit war now for quite a while and it does amuse me. Unfortunately, I think you are both getting no-where so i'm going to add a few comments. It seems thar Benjiboy is trying to narrow-cast as so to speak this article, making it into a pro-female article which is undoubtably wrong. A Girlfriend is a female in a romantic relationship or sometimes is used to describe a female friend. I have found that 99% of the time the term "Girlfriend" is used to describe the woman who is in a non-marrital relationship with a male - and extremely rarely a woman (and I agree that shouldn't be over looked, but to make the term look like it is used more often than it is just silly!). I agree with Stephen Hipkiss's edits, but not the removal of the picture - although a man and a woman together could also be added to explain the other use of the term. I think you should both stop arguing and messing up the article. -- Gothgirlangel1981 ( talk) 15:55, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
The article top disambiguation tag {{otheruses1}} is inappropriate here—as it is cast—as this is an article about all the various human relationships and context associated with the term girlfriend, not just the male-female romantic one. The disambig page does not point to any other article with meanings even remotely connected with this one, as all the pointers are to articles about records, movies, bands, etc. The DAB needs to be removed, or edited to change the implication that this article is just about girlfriend as a M-F romantic one. See also the seven AfDs and merge proposal. — Becksguy ( talk) 18:08, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
Amazing the bickering over "girlfriend"! lol Girlfriend can be:
The best thing to do is leave out the gender specific relationship language and just leave it with it's generic definition as I did in the lede. - ✰ ALLSTAR✰ echo 00:40, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
To add to the above Allstar and Benjiboi comments: The article lede actually now says: Girlfriend is a term that can refer to either a female partner in a non-marital romantic relationship or a female non-intimate friend. That places the common mainstream cultural meaning of girlfriend first, ie - a male-female romantic relationship. As it should be. Then the first sentence of the "Scope" section says: The term is most commonly used to describe any female person who is in a romantic relationship with another person. I don't believe anyone here disputes the mainstream meaning of the term, or thinks it should be demoted. However, it's not the only meaning, as has been explained, and that's something the article should cover, and does, otherwise it would be WP:POV. So what's the problem? I suggest that we should agree to mark this discussion thread as resolved, and move on to other stuff. — Becksguy ( talk) 12:28, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
This article's pictures look like vanity shots, and te caption are incredibly covoluded to read. "these are two people! they may or may no tbe a couple!" need to be rewritten so as to read more fluidly —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
68.227.218.128 (
talk)
21:27, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
a man's friend who's a girl by gender, not of a sexual or romantic nature Xolo master ( talk) 20:47, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
An article in The Times, June 26, 2008, headed "Pillow Talk: Prince William and Kate Middleton to wed?" http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/celebrity/article4213432.ece
“girlfriend” - a title first used by Elgiva, future wife of Edmund the Magnificent, in 938, and since given sparingly to royal squeezes only on the advice of the Knights of the Garter.
This might have been made up by the person writing the article, or it might be correct. I do not know, but find it interesting. I also do not know the correct way to insert such information into the Wikipedia entry, and my previous attempts at editing were removed. Norm Tered ( talk) 01:13, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
In the last revision I edited, I found duplicate named references, i.e. references sharing the same name, but not having the same content. Please check them, as I am not able to fix them automatically :)
DumZiBoT ( talk) 02:18, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
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Photographs of people standing together at some distance do not indicate relationships. Nor do they illustrate a global point of view. Nor do they illustrate a historical perspective. Therefore the photos are either pointless, or misleading, and were removed. Also, I noted in a similar situation, the photos are being used to sneak pictures of personal friends, or of editors themselves (or possibly of enemies) into articles. Piano non troppo ( talk) 00:50, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
These terms are used in this page but corresponding relationship pages exist. Surely if they are listed as a type of relationship on a page then these relationships should have their own pages. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.69.199.111 ( talk) 03:28, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
This article lacks what is probably the most important information required for such articles: the history of the emergence of the term. When it was first used, when it was included to the dictionaries etc. Netrat ( talk) 06:45, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
Methods of attracting a partner to achieve girlfriend/ boyfriend status are often varied and have been a topic of much discussion amongst both males and females, although methods and motives vary wildly. citation needed
This sentence seems out of place enough in intro as it is, without the dangerously-close-to-sexist cherry on top of linking "methods and motives vary wildly" to Gender differences. Laïka 18:39, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
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Sweetheart is a dis-ambiguation page. This link cannot be dis-ambiguated, and so what is the best thing to do?? 66.32.242.236 21:43, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I wrote a message at Talk:Boyfriend about merging these articles. See that talk page for details. 66.245.98.79 18:49, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)
See Talk:Boyfriend for further discussion. Andrewa 00:44, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
The page for girlfriend is short, I also suggest that the two articles are to be merged together. Pathbinder 13:25, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
Where's the evidence that dating strongly implies sex now, or ever? lysdexia 01:25, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)
According to Vfd, this article will probably have a consensus to keep; whereas Boyfriend will probably have no consensus. Why so?? 66.245.28.46 00:05, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)
In Wikipedia, it says that this term is commonly used to describe same-gender, non-romantic friends, but that "boyfriend" is not-so-commonly used this way. What, then, is the masculine equivalent?? Georgia guy 23:46, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
The word bro, or buddy, or boy. As in he is my bro, or he is my boy —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.40.115.150 ( talk) 19:19, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
I'm a little worried at the non-specific nature of the reference to usage of "womanfriend" as an alternative to "manfriend". Removals on the basis that "I've never heard of it" are possible so long as no source is cited. So long as we rely on subjunctive impressions, we may be in trouble. Slac speak up! 02:27, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
Dictionaries recognize ladyfriend, but not womanfriend as an alternative. I'm adding to the article that womanfriend is less common than the more common ladyfriend.
In the synonyms section, I've added partner. I'll try to find a source. If someone else could find one it'd be appreciated. Isopropyl 01:34, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
Origins and first use of the word "girlfriend", as appears on the Boyfriend article?
Does Wikipedia's attempt to "generalize" everyging sound like political correctness or is it just me?
ガアルフレンッド) ガアルフレンッド was poorly written. It should be ガールフレンド. A Google search for ガアルフレンッド brings up no results other than this article, ガアルフレンド brings up about 142 results where as ガールフレン gets about 161,000. ンッド is virtually never seen and ガール is preferred to ガアル though both are pronounced the same way.
In addition, the male equivalent would be "ボーイフレンド", not ボイフレンド. The male equivalent of kanojo 彼女 is kareshi 彼氏.
I take issue with the statement that ガールフレンド in Japanese has no romantic connotations. I lived there for eight years from 1994-2002, and I saw both romantic and non-romantic usages.
I'm also pretty sure all this is incorrect. ガールフレンド often means the same as in English. 彼女 mostly just means she/her/that woman etc... There might be a difference between usage in young Japanese and older Japanese - we need a Japanese expert here!-- Hontogaichiban 16:41, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
I'm a resident of Japan and am currently sitting in a room full of Japanese people. A quick chat with everyone tells me not only does ガールフレンド strongly contain a 恋人 (lover) meaning, but it is an infrequently used word. I don't believe a section on the Japanese use belongs here -- at best, it belongs in the List of gairaigo and wasei-eigo terms. Also wikipedia is not a dictionary, especially an English-Japanese dictionary, and again especially for an infrequently used word. My humble opinion. clay 03:19, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
I took issue with this section as well and based on the consensus here, have removed it. QVanillaQ 03:32, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
I think it's about time we need an Afd template for the nominations similar to one of GNAA. Any objections?? Georgia guy 20:19, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
Sometimes, the phrase girl friend (with a space) or friend girl is used to avoid confusion with the romantic meaning.
I am an English native speaker and I have never heard of the expression "friend girl". Please cite a reference. -- Thoughtcat 14:04, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
I want to know if there is any reason to allow un-registered Wikipedians to add the unreferenced template. Georgia guy 17:39, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
can it be removed from every article actually
Why was the picture, captioned "My girlfriend" removed? Privacy? Impracticality? -- Maier 03 03:20, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
I suggest that someone should remove the popular culture section. There are probably innumberable references to girlfriends in popular culture. Even the ones on the list are not that notable. Andy120290 20:16, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
When used by a girl or woman about another female in a non-sexual, non-romantic context, the 2-word form "girl friend" is usually used to avoid confusion with the romantic meaning, as with "boy friend" when used by males to describe their non-romantic male friends.
Baloney. Women regularly use the word "girlfriend" to describe their platonic female friends, but men never use the word "boyfriend" to describe equivalent relationships between male friends. This is a quirk of our language. marbeh raglaim 18:13, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
Why is a link to a definition of some cartoon in here? It doesn't make sense that anyone would need this. 205.206.239.158 00:55, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
"Boo boo kitty fuck" looks like vandalism to me. Any references for this? 75.37.19.44 20:49, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
This article doesn't help me to get a girlfriend at all. So much for being a neutral reprository of knowledge. I'm sad that this article is here to stay. The article on golf tells you how to play golf. I'm sure that the article on oil can somehow help you to aquire oil. But why not the article on girlfriends? >=( 76.84.191.230 ( talk) 08:13, 31 December 2007 (UTC) AnAngryBachelor
I'm initiating the formal merge process (not for the first time, by the looks of things) following the failed AfD (see link above). The AfD was closed "Speedy Keep" as a bad-faith ( WP:POINT) nomination, and therefore can't be re-nominated for six months: however, the closing admin's comment was "If the nominator wants it to be turned into dab page, then they should do so." I'm not the original nominator, but I'm more than happy to take up the running on his behalf.
This page is little more than a dictionary definition, which we already have at the top of the dab page. I'm sure that an explanation of the difference between "girlfriend" and "girl friend" wouldn't require more than one extra sentence, and I don't see what additional content this article has at the moment. The last genuine AfD was the third one (again, see above), closed in April 2006 with a "Keep" result - but many of the "Keep" opinions were along the lines of "potential for improvement". I don't believe that the article has such potential, and, even if I'm wrong on that point, I don't see any evidence that any improvement has occurred. I'm therefore proposing that "Girlfriend" becomes a dab page, with the content that's now at Girlfriend (disambiguation).
Why is there such a big gap between the lead and the first section? bibliomaniac 1 5 04:52, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
I am getting a little concerned that there are some people on here who are "trying" to change the way people asume of the word Girlfriend. Girlfriend (as a dictionary definition out of Collins) clearly states, a female friend or "A female in a non marital romantic relationship with ref. usually a male". Stop trying to change the optinion people have on the word. For some reason, I don't know why some people can't contemplate the word being used in a romantic sense. For heaven, sake a Girlfriend is a Female partner in a non-marital romantic relationship! -- Steven Hipkins ( talk) 12:41, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
I have also since removed the picture, which is some what inappropriate to the article and totally doesn't have any correspondance to the article itself. Nice thought though, if we are going to have a picture of it, the boyfriend article needs a pictures of 2 males together in the same context - as it has the same meaning. -- Steven Hipkins ( talk) 12:45, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
I'm sorry I disagree with you - you keep removing EVERY single mention that it is to with a relationship with a male, why can I ask, are you doing this - does this sentence make you squirm - "My Girlfriend is Beautiful". I bet it does because for some reason, you can't take that the word girlfriend means that it's a non marital romantic relationship with a male. -- Steven Hipkins ( talk) 15:43, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
I've been watching this edit war now for quite a while and it does amuse me. Unfortunately, I think you are both getting no-where so i'm going to add a few comments. It seems thar Benjiboy is trying to narrow-cast as so to speak this article, making it into a pro-female article which is undoubtably wrong. A Girlfriend is a female in a romantic relationship or sometimes is used to describe a female friend. I have found that 99% of the time the term "Girlfriend" is used to describe the woman who is in a non-marrital relationship with a male - and extremely rarely a woman (and I agree that shouldn't be over looked, but to make the term look like it is used more often than it is just silly!). I agree with Stephen Hipkiss's edits, but not the removal of the picture - although a man and a woman together could also be added to explain the other use of the term. I think you should both stop arguing and messing up the article. -- Gothgirlangel1981 ( talk) 15:55, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
The article top disambiguation tag {{otheruses1}} is inappropriate here—as it is cast—as this is an article about all the various human relationships and context associated with the term girlfriend, not just the male-female romantic one. The disambig page does not point to any other article with meanings even remotely connected with this one, as all the pointers are to articles about records, movies, bands, etc. The DAB needs to be removed, or edited to change the implication that this article is just about girlfriend as a M-F romantic one. See also the seven AfDs and merge proposal. — Becksguy ( talk) 18:08, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
Amazing the bickering over "girlfriend"! lol Girlfriend can be:
The best thing to do is leave out the gender specific relationship language and just leave it with it's generic definition as I did in the lede. - ✰ ALLSTAR✰ echo 00:40, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
To add to the above Allstar and Benjiboi comments: The article lede actually now says: Girlfriend is a term that can refer to either a female partner in a non-marital romantic relationship or a female non-intimate friend. That places the common mainstream cultural meaning of girlfriend first, ie - a male-female romantic relationship. As it should be. Then the first sentence of the "Scope" section says: The term is most commonly used to describe any female person who is in a romantic relationship with another person. I don't believe anyone here disputes the mainstream meaning of the term, or thinks it should be demoted. However, it's not the only meaning, as has been explained, and that's something the article should cover, and does, otherwise it would be WP:POV. So what's the problem? I suggest that we should agree to mark this discussion thread as resolved, and move on to other stuff. — Becksguy ( talk) 12:28, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
This article's pictures look like vanity shots, and te caption are incredibly covoluded to read. "these are two people! they may or may no tbe a couple!" need to be rewritten so as to read more fluidly —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
68.227.218.128 (
talk)
21:27, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
a man's friend who's a girl by gender, not of a sexual or romantic nature Xolo master ( talk) 20:47, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
An article in The Times, June 26, 2008, headed "Pillow Talk: Prince William and Kate Middleton to wed?" http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/celebrity/article4213432.ece
“girlfriend” - a title first used by Elgiva, future wife of Edmund the Magnificent, in 938, and since given sparingly to royal squeezes only on the advice of the Knights of the Garter.
This might have been made up by the person writing the article, or it might be correct. I do not know, but find it interesting. I also do not know the correct way to insert such information into the Wikipedia entry, and my previous attempts at editing were removed. Norm Tered ( talk) 01:13, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
In the last revision I edited, I found duplicate named references, i.e. references sharing the same name, but not having the same content. Please check them, as I am not able to fix them automatically :)
DumZiBoT ( talk) 02:18, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
The edit notice for this page is currently subject to a deletion debate. The edit notice is the message that appears just over the edit box whenever the page itself is in edit mode. If you love this notice, hate it, or just would like to comment on it's existance, please come and join in the debate. - TexasAndroid ( talk) 13:53, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
Photographs of people standing together at some distance do not indicate relationships. Nor do they illustrate a global point of view. Nor do they illustrate a historical perspective. Therefore the photos are either pointless, or misleading, and were removed. Also, I noted in a similar situation, the photos are being used to sneak pictures of personal friends, or of editors themselves (or possibly of enemies) into articles. Piano non troppo ( talk) 00:50, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
These terms are used in this page but corresponding relationship pages exist. Surely if they are listed as a type of relationship on a page then these relationships should have their own pages. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.69.199.111 ( talk) 03:28, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
This article lacks what is probably the most important information required for such articles: the history of the emergence of the term. When it was first used, when it was included to the dictionaries etc. Netrat ( talk) 06:45, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
Methods of attracting a partner to achieve girlfriend/ boyfriend status are often varied and have been a topic of much discussion amongst both males and females, although methods and motives vary wildly. citation needed
This sentence seems out of place enough in intro as it is, without the dangerously-close-to-sexist cherry on top of linking "methods and motives vary wildly" to Gender differences. Laïka 18:39, 15 September 2009 (UTC)