Talk:Haplogroup UK

UK
Regardless of where & how K split from, its still under UK, mixing the names only adds confusion.Cadenas2008 (talk) 15:07, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

Merger proposal
I propose merging article Haplogroup UK to Haplogroup K. As the previous talk section states, there is naming confusion regarding UK. After I used Google to survey dozens of scholarly articles containing the phrase "Haplogroup UK", the term UK seems to be an informal reference to branch K of branch U or a specific mutation found in subclade U. There seems to be no single or common authority yet on haplogroup nomenclature or phylogeny, but the Phylogenic tree in the main article Human_mitochondrial_DNA_haplogroup seems to be the most detailed and contains the best references. The Wikipedia articles for Haplogroup U, Haplogroup K, Haplogroup UK could all use improvement in identification and references regarding phylogeny. At least this proposal is a start. Stephen Charles Thompson (talk) 21:30, 7 February 2020 (UTC)
 * The phylogenetic tree in the Wikipedia main article Human_mitochondrial_DNA_haplogroup has a note stating that the name UK is an older term and the former Name for Haplogroup U, which contains a subclade Haplogroup K.
 * The Wikipedia template mtDNA, titled "Phylogenetic tree of human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroups", also shows a subclade branching of U | K.
 * Article Haplogroup UK is Stub grade and vastly inferior to article Haplogroup K.


 * Wouldn't it make more sense to merge it into Haplogroup K (mtDNA)? --R'n'B (call me Russ) 18:53, 21 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Merge to which article? Haplogroup K is a DAB page, and per WP:DABREF cannot contain citations or external links. Narky Blert (talk) 11:27, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Support merge of Haplogroup UK to Haplogroup K (mtDNA); synonyms, and any historic differences can be discussed on the merged page. Klbrain (talk) 11:06, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
 * ✅ Klbrain (talk) 20:47, 6 March 2021 (UTC)