Talk:Extinction level event
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I can't help noticing that this is in the conspiracy theory category? Is that really appropriate? I hesitate to change it in case there is a valid reason, but the article as it stands seems to be entirely science based, especially since the reference to Armageddon was removed. --Danfly (talk) 17:41, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
- Err, the article still mentions Deep Impact and Armageddon.
- I'd like to see the article moved to "mass extinction" or "extinction event" (Wikipedia uses the latter). For some reason, ELE is used a lot by conspiracy nuts.--ZooGuard (talk) 17:58, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
Oh, so it does. Forgive my blindness. --Danfly (talk) 18:00, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
- According to the edit comment, it was linked to from the baraminology article as this title. But if the title is used by conspiracy theorists, that would be a good angle to come at it from.
gnostic 18:10, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
[edit] Merge or change of focus
We have an Extinction article that is older than this. Do we need a separate article for mass extinctions? Possible courses of action:
- Keep the article and make it the main article on mass extinctions, renaming it to "mass extinction" or "extinction event". The conspiracy theory angle will be only a section.
- Keep the article and make it cover only the conspiracy theory angle (mass extinction stuff goes to the Extinction article).
- Merge the article into Extinction and have this title redirect to the CT section there.
Any suggestions?--ZooGuard (talk) 12:17, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
- Merge into extinction and expand the conspiracy angle as a separate section, I think. ADK...I'll deport your encyclopedia! 16:59, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
- That works for me. Тycommunications wire 17:01, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
- Merge into extinction and expand the conspiracy angle as a separate section, I think. ADK...I'll deport your encyclopedia! 16:59, 15 July 2011 (UTC)