Talk:Glaciation
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[edit] Rationalising glaciation names
The current naming conventions for glaciations and interglacials are a bit of a mess. This is more the fault of the international glaciological community that it is ours. Even so, we have lots of red links for the varying names and some duplicate entries under different regional names. From an archaeological perspective it would make more sense to give each region's name for the same glaciation its own article, each one explicitly linked with its analogues. This would permit better discussion of the relevant cultures and any other local phenomena. From a geologist's or biologist's standpoint and in the name of simplicity though it may be better to merge each name into one article as has been done in Wisconsin glaciation with lots of redirects set up. Any thoughts? adamsan 12:06, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Use redirects unless we're talking about really long articles, or if the linkage would be overly tangled or indirected. In general we want articles to be about the "subject" irrespective of nomenclature, and only raise nomenclature to article level when naming is itself a complicated issue. Redirecting can also be undone later, if the redirected topic begins to get large within the original article. Free links to synonyms have a way of becoming needless dups. Stan 15:31, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)putos
[edit] missing "only"?
"Since the earth has significant continental glaciation in the Arctic and Antarctic, we currently are in a glacial minimum of a glaciation" doesn't quite make sense to me Todos son putos en mexico especial en juarez
[edit] Copyvio
Copyrighted text from [1] was removed from the article. Conscious 17:11, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Glaciation or Ice Age
Shouldn't articles glaciation and Ice Age be merged? In any case the difference is not clearly indicated so as to justify different articles. This confusion also persists in the articles in other languages.
Afil 18:42, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
