Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Phylogenetics

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The result of the debate was keep. Rossami (talk) 04:17, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Phylogenetics

This article is already being discussed in Cladistics and should be deleted. I think all the informations this article has is already merged there. Bruno Dantas 18:12, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

• If information was used from this article and merged into another article, the normal process is to redirect it there. This preserves the attribution history - a requirement of GFDL. You can be bold and redirect. You do not need to bring it to VfD. Rossami (talk) 00:39, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Phylogenetics is a far more common term than cladistics, so I think the former should stay, perhaps even as a redirect target for the latter Turnstep 13:45, Apr 1, 2005 (UTC)
• I agree that phylogenetics is a more common term than cladistics (Science magazine has 108 citations for 'phylogenetics' OR 'phylogenetic' and 5 for 'cladistic' OR 'cladistics' in the past 10 years). Philosophical discussion between statistical phylogeneticists and cladists indicate that the terms are not interchangeable.--KCranston 04:47, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Any way that you could encourage these philosophers to edit the two pages? :) Turnstep 13:06, Apr 5, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. The two terms are distinct from one another. Phylogenetics is a broader term than cladistics. Phylogenetics is constructing an evolutionary tree. Cladistics is one of several techniques by which trees can be constructed. It would be nice if this page is improved, but that will happen someday. --Aranae 03:40, Apr 16, 2005 (UTC)
  • This is also the main article for an important category and should be kept for that reason as well. --Aranae 03:46, Apr 16, 2005 (UTC)

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