Seduction Wiki:Point of view

This encyclopedia covers pickup, seduction, dating skill, and romantic life as a field. Named schools appear as history and contrast, not as a house brand. Write like Wikipedia: lead, history, method, sources.

When a page must choose a default — what a beginner actually does, whether to open direct, how much logistics beats lines — it describes the usual practice in encyclopedia English, then labels other schools in their own sections.

Defaults (short)

These are common claims in the field, not a franchise:

1. Attraction is a skill. It is trained by deliberate practice, not by waiting to be chosen.
2. Attractiveness fundamentals (body, voice, social, fashion) are passive but adjustable. Game is the active work (open, tease, lead, escalate). Stronger fundamentals mean you need less game; stronger game covers weaker fundamentals; both is easiest.
3. Logistics — can you leave, is there a place, is the night actually going somewhere — beat clever lines.
4. Beginners start with observation, posture, eye contact, then talking to strangers, then a number. They do not wait to be handsome enough to start, and they do not start at routines.
5. A common open, once the student can say hello, is direct game: genuine interest, stated. Mystery-style indirect is a club tool, not the only open.
6. Calibration beats a script. Approach anxiety is trained down by volume. One-itis is a scarcity infection.
7. Looks and status matter; they are not the whole art. Unchangeable appearance belongs on the sister wiki. Changeable appearance is fundamentals here.

If a source contradicts this list, the page says so in a labeled section ("Mystery-era", "London daygame", "manosphere").

In scope

• Pickup-artist method, jargon, history, and books — including schools that disagree with each other.
• Daygame, nightgame, social-circle game, online dating, text game.
• Inner game, frame, calibration, approach anxiety.
• Courtship, first dates, situationships, exclusivity, marriage repair.
• Looks and style as they affect attraction (the dedicated looks encyclopedia is the sister wiki).

Out of scope

• Looksmaxxing as a standalone culture — that is looksmaxxing.wiki.
• Political manosphere as a political project. Red-pill claims appear only when they are actually used as dating advice, and they are labeled as such.
• How-to crime, harassment, or non-consensual contact. Enthusiastic consent is a real page here.

Voice

Pages are encyclopedia pages, not reprints of any coaching site or forum. Jargon is defined on first use and linked. A technique page says (1) what the term means, (2) where the word came from if it is older, (3) the usual failure mode.

Write as if the reader might actually go outside.

Sources

1. Named public teaching, books, and forums — paraphrased, not pasted.
2. Historical lexicons: PUA Lingo, ASF / PickupGuide, The Game, Mystery Method — origin of words.
3. Other schools in contrast sections.
4. Living dating slang (ghosting, situationship, rizz) from ordinary usage and the Wingman glossary.

The Wingman blog (wingman.live/blog) is inspiration, not a source rank. Do not convert blog posts into articles.

Forum copyright is not a dump license. See Seduction Wiki:Copyrights and Seduction Wiki:Method.