Talk:Phylogenetic comparative methods
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Article quality and name
editThis article does not appear to really be about anything, certainly not a coherent and unified group of methods that deserve their own central overview. The bulk of the article is given to lists, which are not really encyclopedic or relevant; and there is already a list of computational phylogenetics software article that the software links could link to. What little actual content is in this article is more about phylogenetics than anything else, though how a quote from Aristotle relates to 'controversy' is beyond me. If this article is to remain, it needs the lists chopped and the text dramatically expanded to reflect a consistent body of work on a coherent subject. Opabinia regalis 02:00, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
- Agreed - I was hoping to find an actual discussion of various phylogenetic comparative methods, but instead found something pretty vague. If nothing else, I'd suggest moving this to comparative phylogenetics, or something... — flamingspinach | (talk) 08:56, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
- That seems the best name, and gets the most google hits, so I've moved it here. Richard001 23:18, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
The term "morphospace" is ambiguous at best, it seems that if a term needs quotation marks it should be either, 1) a direct cited quote, or 2) a sort of slang term, to which it should then be linked. If not in general, especially in this case. -----Tobias
Where does the Torr quote come from?
editI can't find anything for Torr 1998– it's not in the list of references, and googling for part of the quote itself returns only this page. 50.156.67.155 (talk) 04:11, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
- Honestly, that entire section is a mess. The quotes, like true and often eloquent, don't really add much, and there's no real "controversy" as far as I'm aware. I've commented it out, because I'm a bit leery of deleting that much content, but at best it should be moved to a WikiQuote page. HCA (talk) 19:39, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
Quotes moved
editI moved the big list of quotes from the wikitext to talk:phylogenetic comparative methods/quotes for when I have time to figure out wikiquote. —Jonathan Chang 00:09, 23 December 2015 (UTC)