Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tandem repeat locus

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Tandem repeat locus
Transwikied dictdef, not enough information to merge. Delete. Eliot 20:03, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * Comment: This doesn't strike me as something I'd look up in a dictionary. I am curious: What is supposed to happen if someone searches for that term in WP? Could it be that we transwiki articles that are more stubs than dictdefs? Rl 20:23, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * A google search doesn't turn up anything except for genetics paper abstracts in the first 10 pages, so anybody who would look it up probably already knows what it is. (That seems to be what happened with the stub listed here.) It seems to me like this is a complex topic that needs to build on a simpler topic which doesn't exist in WP right now, like repeat locus, or maybe just some information which isn't in DNA sequence yet. Eliot 20:40, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * Keep, looks like an important topic in DNA. Kappa 20:49, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect into DNA sequence until there's enough info to break it out into its own article. I study chemistry and I agree it's an important topic with regard to DNA. Mgm|(talk) 21:40, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and expand. Notable genetics topic. JamesBurns 07:07, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and expand: this is one the main tools for genetic fingerprinting. Bambaiah 13:12, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect until it grows. --Laura Scudder | Talk 15:43, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)


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