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Peter Coxhead undid an edit I made to the cladogram page, saying that "this must be discussed first." He has not seen fit to start that conversation so I will. The section I wrote is based on what is stated - apparently unobjectionably - in the earlier part of the Cladogram article:

"a cladogram is a diagram used in cladistics which shows relations among organisms. A cladogram is not, however, an evolutionary tree because it does not show how ancestors are related to descendants or how much they have changed; many evolutionary trees can be inferred from a single cladogram ..."

and

"Researchers must decide which character states are "ancestral" (plesiomorphies) and which are derived (synapomorphies), because only synapomorphic character states provide evidence of grouping.[10] "

Phenetic algorithms do not use outgroups, and neither they nor ML or Bayesian methods group by synapomorphy alone.. This is why the material in the "Selecting a cladogram" section is incorrect - particularly, the statement "Algorithms for cladograms include least squares, neighbor-joining, parsimony, maximum likelihood, and Bayesian inference." These things are not "cladistics" and do not, therefore, produce "cladograms." Abrower (talk) 12:27, 31 July 2015 (UTC)Reply

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Thanks for your addition; it would be appreciated if you could cite the discussion of the second paragraph. Many thanks Chiswick Chap (talk) 19:06, 9 April 2018 (UTC)Reply

Hey Abrower, I reverted your your recent contributions to Occams Razor because it appeared to contain personal research or opinions. See WP:FORUM for more information. I'm so terribly utterly sorry for "Naysaying", I should have added this earlier but I figured such reasons were obvious and I was very tired so it slipped my mind. Good luck! Beaten Corpse (talk) 22:04, 4 October 2020 (UTC)Reply

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Hi, welcome back and Happy New Year.

1) If adding citations, please ensure they are in the same format, e.g. Template:Cite journal, as the rest of the article, complete with DOI link to enable readers to find the paper directly.

2) If adding material about members of your own family, please be aware of Wikipedia's rules on Conflict of Interest. In general it is best (strongly recommended) not to add anything like this to any article as you may unconsciously feel favourably disposed to add things that other editors might not. Many people choose to add suggestions or edit requests to article talk pages to avoid the problem. Chiswick Chap (talk) 16:05, 29 December 2020 (UTC)Reply

You are also easily experienced enough to know that uncited additions are not acceptable.

And that page numbers are required, not just vague allusions to the "2nd, 3rd, or 4th edition" of a book.

And please don't try to change language settings. If an article is in British English, using endings in -ise, it is not done to change them to -ize. Chiswick Chap (talk) 14:59, 3 January 2021 (UTC)Reply

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A recent edit to this article seems to have completely changed the sense of a sentence in the lead; I wonder if you have any thoughts about it. -- JBL (talk) 21:25, 23 July 2022 (UTC)Reply

Well, I don't know who changed it, and even though I would be happy if it were true, I don't think it is. But I have learned from "people" such as Peter Coxhead (why is that even allowed?) that it is futile to try to repair these things. Abrower (talk) 19:27, 10 August 2022 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for your response! The user who changed it was Djpmapleferryman (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) -- based on their editing, it appears this person is David J. Patterson. Based on your comments (and the fact that no evidence was offered in support of the change), I have reverted their edit. All the best, JBL (talk) 20:12, 10 August 2022 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for your contributions to Paul J. Spangler. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it needs more sources to establish notability and in particular, the article needs at least two and preferably three reliable independent sources with significant coverage of the subject. There's useful information about how to choose good sources and avoid bad sources here. Also, as you have copied the content practically verbatim from the Smithsonian archives source, you need to attribute its use according to these instructions. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit the draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. SunloungerFrog (talk) 07:19, 10 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

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