Talk:Love triangle

Examples - need editing ?

I'm guessing the Homer/Marge/Moe thing is only one episode of the Simpsons? While I certainly don't object to using TV plotlines as examples, especially something as culturally relevant as the Simpsons, examples should probably be based on more than a single episode. Maybe Robin Hood/Maid Marian/Nottingham would be more appropriate to show this kind of hatred-based love triangle? Also, trying to keep a comprehensive list of love triangles is not the way we should go - that would not add any additional information, and would soon make this one of the longest articles in Wikipedia. Do we even need or want an additional examples section? PaulSSC 20:19, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

Four examples from Yu-Gi-Oh! alone tell me that people are already using this page to post up links to their pet favorite works of fiction. Nipping this in the bud now would be a good idea. Perhaps we could pare the list down so that each type of love triangle has one or two examples. For example, "two enemies vying for the same person" is one type, as is "two friends vying for the same person". I'm sure there's better terminology to use, but you get the idea. We could no doubt come up with others. —BrianSmithson 18:16, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

On merging

I've noticed that there's been a request to merge the love rectangle article with this one. I think this merge would be justified because the term "love triangle" is much more common than "love rectangle," and that the latter term is basically a variant of the former; we could put it under a Variations section in this article, especially since the love rectangle article is so short. What do you think? Breed Zona 22:30, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Well, I've done the merge. What does anybody else think about this (not that many people will even be interested...)? Breed Zona 06:16, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Support both merge of article and move to wiktionary.Cholga^talK! 06:13, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

About the Additional Examples section

It appears that the Examples section has gotten way out of hand. I'm seriously considering just deleting the whole mess and adding prominent examples here and there in the article. We do not need that many examples of a love triangle, I believe. Feel free to argue with me about this if you believe I'm wrong. I'll be happy to listen. Breed Zona 01:10, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Done the delete. Breed Zona 01:20, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

No.

"While it can refer to two people independently romantically linked with a third, it usually implies that each of the three people has some kind of relationship to the other two."

This is not true. It generally refers to a situation where Person A is interested in Person B, but Person B is only interested in Person C. Person A and Person C do not necessarily have any kind of relationship. 98.222.156.76 (talk) 23:47, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

The Love Triangles/Rectangle/Hexagon problem

I have a question that I just have to ask about. Lets say if person J is interested in person A but their friend person C has feelings for person A as well but person J thinks that both persons A and C are having an affair with each other Vice Versa person A thinking that person J is cheating with their other friend person M who currently is in a relationship with another person person T and both A and C state that their just friends but person C secretly is in love with person A and A feels the same way about person C but person C still has feelings for the previous relationship before person A came along another person name T and what if persons M and J are secretly in love with each other but don`t want to admit it and everyone else thinks that their all cheating on each other. How do you think the six people should solve this love conflicting problem ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.80.106.105 (talk) 13:32, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

everyone should give up, go home and masturbate —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.194.190.179 (talk) 23:51, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

There's only 5 people : A, C, J, M, T. This can't be a love hexagon, but ultimately, A+C and J+M should pair off, and T should go home. Alec250 (talk) 15:45, 29 October 2023 (UTC)

italics?

--Splashen (talk) 04:00, 6 May 2016 (UTC) In the first paragraph of the "History and definitions" section, the latter half of the paragraph is in italics. I looked at the Wikipedia manual of style (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(text_formatting)#Italic_face) and couldn't find a reason. I don't want to change it since there might still be a reason I'm unaware of. So, ummmm... why's it in italics? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.198.232.115 (talk) 04:54, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

Equiangular?

The claim "For additional terms, the word "love" can be prefixed to other equiangular polygons" seems bizarre, as the defining data is combinatorial rather than metric. The given examples make no reference to equiangular figures, and no citation is given. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.141.114.72 (talk) 03:36, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

In entertainment/Bloomsbury

Can't see if this subsection follows the idea of the entire section. Needs to be improved with other historically significant triangles or entirely removed I guess. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.80.211.120 (talk) 12:29, 23 May 2014 (UTC)

Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

The article mentions that Romeo and Juliet featured a love triangle of Romeo, Juliet, and Paris. Yes, but, there was also a love triangle between Romeo, Juliet, and Rosalyn, as Romeo was originally in love with Rosalyn, before meeting Juliette.--Splashen (talk) 04:00, 6 May 2016 (UTC)

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