Talk:Classifying Organisms

Speedy deletion nomination
It might not be patent nonsense, but I'd say the text is 'unsalvageably incoherent'. Nfitz 01:51, 31 January 2006 (UTC)


 * With the present title, and not knowning what the author intends, I think this might be better put as a redirect to Taxonomy. The content is not patent nonsense, though seems quite strange given the title (maybe just the title is unclear).  I think a measure of assuming good faith is needed here, and we can figure out what is going on.  Maybe a move or a redirect, but a deletion does not seem appropriate here. --Hansnesse 01:53, 31 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Okay, perhaps I was a tad hasty. Let's see where it goes.  The Lewis and Martin opening was kind of odd though ... but the article has improved since I first saw it. Nfitz 01:56, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm going to go ahead and change this to a redirect, since the original author (and sole content contributor) seems to have just stuck on an AfD tag. I think it is fine as a redirect to taxonomy.  Thanks --Hansnesse 02:12, 31 January 2006 (UTC)


 * My AFD is going to be tooken off because I didn't look here before I AFD it. Because looking here, it looks like this page might last. Tcatron565


 * I will hold off on putting up a redirect to Taxonomy (the science of classification) if you're intending to put something different here. What is this page intended to be about? --Hansnesse 02:19, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
 * As I read more, maybe Scientific classification is the appropriate redirect. It does seem to be duplicating the content there.  --Hansnesse 02:36, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Hansnesse, you need to learn not to just use redirects! You can do merges. LOL! If you don't know how, here is what you type in, Someone will eventually merge them together so that the original page has information the other page didn't have.Tcatron565


 * Thanks for the information about merges, although since the material found here seems to be more or less the same (excluding the introduction with Lewis and Clark), as is found on Scientific classification or Linnean taxonomy I do think a redirect is the appropriate move. I am not clear how the topic covered here is different from those articles (note that at one point, merging those existing articles was discussed as well).  That is not a criticism, it is merely that I do not understand.  Perhaps you could clarify what it is you mean to put here, especially regarding how it is different from the material already created.  For instance, if the article were to be about what sorts of classfications of organisms exist (scientific, ethnological, etc.) or the debate between classification based on morphology and classification based on evolutionary relatedness, I would think this aricle should be seperate.  I am just trying to put some ideas out, before we spend too much work on an article which is already on WP.  Thanks --Hansnesse 03:16, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Source of Text
Can the originating author confirm that they wrote this text, and didn't retype it from an existing source? Nfitz 05:27, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Making science pages is my specialty and it is not from a book or anything. I'm just good at science. It's my best subject. Tcatron565
 * It's well written. Nfitz 22:59, 31 January 2006 (UTC)