User talk:Hullo97

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Substitution mutation
I have reverted your changes to restore the redirect to point mutation. The process you described does not appear substantially different than that described at point mutation, and your information referenced no sources (see Verifiability). If you believe a separate article is needed on substitution mutation, I suggest you take up the matter at Talk:Point mutation and see if others agree. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 11:11, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

I am very disappointed, I would suggest doing a bit of research before you start shutting down pages on topics you don't know about. I am a geneticist at Oxford university and I can assure you that every biology text book from GCSE to university level clearly shows the distinction. A point mutation refers to any mutation the has an effect on one base. This can be in one of three different ways. Substitution (where a base is substituted for another), Addition (where a base is added) or Deletion (where a base is omitted). I would also like to let you know that I did reference what I said to Hartwell's 'Genetics, From Genes to Genomes' fifth edition page 207. Perhaps this was just after you read the article. The lack of clarity in the articles on this topics as awful, I was simply trying to help. Please could you kindly replace the amendments that I made. I am open to criticism to improve what I have written but do not appreciate someone ignorantly deleting my work without even messaging me before. If the referencing was the problem then why did you not message me to add a reference? I am disappointed. Thanks Hullo97 (talk) 13:05, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Point taken on the reference (added after my initial attempt to revert). However, the point mutation article already mentions that substitution mutation is one of the forms of a point mutation; it is not clear that an entirely separate article is needed. Again, you are free to disagree, but I would take the matter up at Talk:Point mutation to see if the rest of the community agrees that there is a need for further expansion of substitution mutation beyond what is already covered at point mutation. (Keep in mind that Wikipedia prefers to have a single article for a given topic, rather than creating multiple articles.) If you feel that the clarity of point mutation is insufficient, I encourage you to fix that. And, if there is a significant amount of information that differentiates a substitution mutation from the other point mutations (addition or deletion), then a separate article might be warranted. The genetics community that monitors Talk:Point mutation would know better on that point. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 14:17, 6 April 2016 (UTC)