Talk:Stele (biology)

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How does one remove the "stub" status from a page? I've now expanded this article considerably and think it merits promotion. Liam Proven 11:05, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I have changed the pages Stela and Stele and the relevant pages linking them so that stele now refers to biological concenpt and stela to archaeological concept. Both pages also link eachother with explanations to avoid any confusion. --Chino 06:28, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Good plan! Did you create Stela or was it already there? I wasn't aware of the difference, myself. -- Liam Proven 02:03, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I created the plant biology text currently in Stele. Originally both stele and stela pages talked about stone slabs. I combined thos two but didn't add any text. To my knowledge stele and stela can both refer to inscribed stone slabs but only stele is also a concept in biology. --Chino 05:59, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Requested move

Of the current 20 main namespace links to stele, only three are about plants. I would conclude from this that the article currently at stela describes the primary sense of both stele and stela. It would seem preferable to set up a proper disambiguation scheme instead of arbitrarily assigning different meanings to different spellings. I would suggest that Stele be moved to Stele (biology) and Stela to Stele, with a redirect left at Stela and disambig links at both articles. I have proposed the move at Wikipedia:Requested moves. See also the discussion above for the history of these two articles. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 23:08, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

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Support — it makes sense to have the inscriptional artifact at stele, as this is the original use of the term (from the Greek to stand). The biological definition is secondary and derivative. --Gareth Hughes 11:32, 8 November 2005 (UTC)