Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Carboniferous-Earliest Permian Biodiversification Event


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The result was merge to Carboniferous. Eddie891 Talk Work 17:45, 19 September 2022 (UTC)

Carboniferous-Earliest Permian Biodiversification Event

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I proposed a merger with Carboniferous earlier, but that seems to have gotten no response. The article is essentially regurgiating almost verbatim the conclusions of a single paper Carboniferous-earliest Permian marine biodiversification event (CPBE) during the Late Paleozoic Ice Age published in Earth Science Reviews last year, which was the paper that coined the term "Carboniferous-Earliest Permian Biodiversification Event", which has only been used since by one other article in a brief mention. It's perhaps fine to create an article about a species based on the single paper that described it, but for a supposed major ecological event I would expect a body of literature on the topic, as there is for the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event, see search results on scholar. Given that the other references on this page are just for background info and not about the supposed event itself, I think it is WP:TOOSOON for it to pass the WP:GNG. Maybe some of the relevant material can be merged into Late Paleozoic icehouse. Hemiauchenia (talk) 17:39, 12 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Also would agree to merging into Carboniferous like I originally suggested and as as per the below comments. Hemiauchenia (talk) 20:12, 13 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Science Hemiauchenia (talk) 17:44, 12 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. –LaundryPizza03 ( d  c̄ ) 18:50, 12 September 2022 (UTC)


 * It is very odd. Google Scholar shows only two articles, as you say, but Google shows a number of scholarly sources. Can you take a look at and say what you think. Dudley Miles (talk) 19:25, 12 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Im seeing a single additional reference to the concept in the 2022 book The Carboniferous Timescale on page 212-213, but the relevant text is only maybe a paragraph and simply repeats the conclusions of the 2021 paper. We need more than passing references for this to be a notable concept. The other sources are either Wikipedia mirrors or mirrors of the papers previously mentioned. Hemiauchenia (talk) 19:31, 12 September 2022 (UTC)
 * There is also this one, but I agree with you. It is too early to know whether the concept will get wide accesptance. Dudley Miles (talk) 19:53, 12 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Merge into Carboniferous and shorten dramatically. FunkMonk (talk) 21:22, 12 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Merge selected text into Carboniferous as TOOSOON. As noted above, virtually no literature, and no sustained press coverage either. Lythronaxargestes (talk &#124; contribs) 22:23, 12 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Selective merge - relevant content but as noted, functionally single-sourced. This should be briefly treated in context, not spread out into a special-POV article. -- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 07:29, 19 September 2022 (UTC)


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