Talk:Determination (biology)

Clarity
I think its quite clear. It tries to make a complex subject more friendly but if you can make it clearer please go ahead  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.201.51.32 (talk) 09:44, 21 August 2010 (UTC)

Article content
I've just gone through the article and stripped out material which belongs elsewhere (such as dichotomous key, multi-access key, identification key etc) or which is simply confused. I'm afraid this hasn't left very much apart from the history section, which doesn't actually seem to be about identification at all, but classification. I am now wondering exactly what this article is about. What should it contain that is not covered elsewhere? Why should an article about identification be limited to plants and not include birds, fungi, beetles and whatever? Do we need the article at all...? Richard New Forest (talk) 20:41, 5 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Further information recently added, but the comment above still stands. This article is not about "plant identification" at the moment – so what is it about?  Can we discuss here please before expanding the article further?  If this article (under this or another name) is needed, fine, but we do have to know what it's about.  Richard New Forest (talk) 08:58, 31 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Ha! I thought the same thing and stripped out more text. The act of identifying a plant is technically called to 'determine', and fungi or animals can be 'determined' as well. The history of alpha taxonomy -but then only restricted to the Bentham & Hooker system... what's the point of this text? Keys quite accurate? I don't think there are keys in this work, and they'd only go to genera... Idem with the taxonomy using computers... what's the point here? What has that to do with the subject matter? Leo Breman (talk) 16:02, 15 October 2020 (UTC)

Proposed merge of Identification (biology) with Determination (biology)
Article subjects seem identical. Daask (talk) 07:48, 11 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Oppose Determination seems to follow identification. Also the term identification is readily descriptive and commonly used as in Identification key. --Iztwoz (talk) 10:05, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Closing, with no merge, given the uncontested objection and no support. Klbrain (talk) 05:33, 11 September 2022 (UTC)