Talk:Last Glacial Maximum refugia

In this article it says: "and the Americas and New Zealand had no humans at that time." But in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Glacial_Maximum : "North America(...) LGM glaciers forced early human populations who had originally migrated from northeast Siberia into refugia" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.243.154.2 (talk) 14:46, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

Anthropological?

I just reverted an edit by 95.145.196.68 (talk · contribs). The edit was made saying, "The page talks exclusively about human refugia, not counting animals or plants, which, if adapted to the climate, did not withdraw to a refugium location. They would have likely expanded their ranges during this time." This may be an excellent point, but adding the word 'Anthropological' to the opening sentence in this way is problematic in a number of stylistic ways.

Last Glacial Maximum Anthropological refugia were places where people survived...

1. Per WP:BOLDTITLE, if the mention of the topic as the subject of the first sentence is not a verbatim quote if the article title, it should not be emboldened.
2. Per WP:TITLEFORMAT, the title of the article itself should be sentence-case, not with most words capitalised.

First, if there is consensus here that the 'human-only' aspect of the article needs to be emphasised, we need to decide whether to do this first by renaming ('moving') the article, rather than working around what we find was always an inaccurate title. As part of that, it may be only me, but to my mind, anthropological sounds more like being part of the academic discipline of that name, rather than meaning 'human-only, not about animals'.

Secondly, I think that the capitalisation of this article title is incorrect at the moment, and should be Last glacial maximum refugia already, regardless of whether LGM is a recognised acronym. This would make the addition of an extra word or two easier without looking odd.

Before we go any further, we need some discussion and a consensus on the need to make the distinction proposed. --Nigelj (talk) 21:58, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

Suggested fix

The topic for this article should be about refugia during the LGM in general, not solely about humans. I suggest the anthropology topic of humans move to a new stub for Human Populations during the Last Glacial Maximum, or it is a minor part of the new content. Answer.to.the.rock (talk) 04:52, 4 October 2017 (UTC) Also, note that Last Glacial Maximum is a recognized time period and I believe should be capitalized, therefore. Answer.to.the.rock (talk) 04:58, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

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Wiki Education assignment: BIO 476 - Paleoecology

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 16 January 2024 and 26 April 2024. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Baum019 (article contribs). Peer reviewers: Illiad5922, Snowboots11.

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Adding content to this page

I am assigned this Wikipedia page for a class I am in, and I will be adding a significant amount of content. I am going to migrate it over slowly, doing one section at a time. I noted all the information on this talk page, and I tried adding information that pertained to human refugia and other (plants, other mammals). Baum019 (talk) 14:03, 15 April 2024 (UTC)