Talk:Haplogroup K-M526

Merge discussion

I do not know if anyone ever even looks at these pages, including the people who make them, but certainly no one is keeping them up to date, and they are all virtually identical, and very skeletal. As I have mentioned at WP:HGH ([1]) there are way too many people who think making an article split for every mutation known in the Y DNA family tree is a positive contribution to Wikipedia, but not enough people (either in Wikipedia or the entire scientific community!!) to make these articles worthwhile and up-to-date. Subjects are not better treated by having lots of stubs about them? I propose that the structure with Haplogroup MNOPS is best treated within one article. I very much doubt anyone will even respond to this?--Andrew Lancaster (talk) 08:37, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

Additions to the Phylogenetic Tree

I have added Polynesia to the Haplogroup M and Oceania to the Haplogroup O of the phylogenetic Tree in the "Subclades" section. The main articles (and their sources) of both haplogroups state that those cultural regions have peoples carrying those haplotypes. -Ano-User (talk) 08:27, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

The name change

Hi, could someone comment on why the name was changed? I do not think the new name is more commonly used or clear? I can't see how it can be because of a phylogenetic discovery in this case because effectively the new name is just a negatively defined version of the old name. (It focuses on what MNOPS is not, and not how it is united.) Sorry if I am missing something, but anyway it is best to record the reason in order to avoid misunderstandings.--Andrew Lancaster (talk) 06:27, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

OK, I just noticed ISOGG have changed it: http://www.isogg.org/tree/ISOGG_YDNATreeTrunk.html --Andrew Lancaster (talk) 06:28, 22 March 2011 (UTC)