Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Northern Eurasian Supercluster

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The result of the debate was Delete. Essjay ยท Talk 07:04, August 11, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Northern Eurasian Supercluster

Not every use of cluster analysis adds a permanent concept to our vocabulary. This is a confusing neologism which gets zero hits at scholar.google.com and all hits at google.com are Wikipedia mirrors. It's confusing because there is a moderately more accepted, and different, usage of the term supercluster in genetics, see Supercluster (genetic). --Pjacobi 03:01, August 1, 2005 (UTC)

I've found an early (though rare, inconsistent, and probably a neologism at the time) usage of supercluster in this sense (of groups of human populations) by the pioneering researcher in the field (Cavalli-Sforza), and have edited Supercluster (genetic) to reflect this. I still do feel that introducing supercluster as a general synonym for race or macro-race is an unjustified neologism, though.--JWB 09:46, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
  • The article discusses two imporant papers, but without any context with respect to the whole theory, this article is pretty uninformative. One possibility would be be to merge with The Seven Daughters of Eve which is the book where this theory is described, but that article is pretty undeveloped, so it may not be anymore informative there.--nixie 14:02, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Label it with some needs verification tag. This is unlikely to be resolved w/o experts and these unlikely hang on VfD. Pavel Vozenilek 21:08, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
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