Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Speciation (genetic algorithm)

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The result was redirect to Genetic algorithm#Methodology. It's up to editors what, if anything, to merge from the history.  Sandstein  09:13, 7 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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This page has remained unreferenced and a stub since 2007. It is a real topic; however it so little referred to in the scientific literature that it is hardly worthy of its own page. A small section could easily be added too Genetic algorithm, Evolutionary algorithm, or Inheritance (genetic algorithm). Furthermore, the page hardly discusses speciation in the context. It mostly just repeats information that is discussed on numerous speciation-related pages. Andrew. Z. Colvin • Talk 20:22, 13 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Mathematics-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 20:58, 13 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organisms-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 20:58, 13 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 20:59, 13 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment - to add to the list, there is also some similarity between this and Environmental niche modelling, but I'm not sure. My feeling is to merge anything useful to evolutionary algorithm (although I don't really see anything useful to merge). I'm not sure about naming conventions for redirect, but I don't think a redirect would be kept here, nor would a hat note be necessary at speciation. Smmurphy^(Talk) 16:13, 14 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge to the "Methodology" section of Genetic algorithm and leave a redirect behind. XOR'easter (talk) 16:46, 14 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete a non-notable neologism. No redirect. Power~enwiki (talk) 22:12, 14 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete - this is a real thing, but I'm not sure how it's notable in any way; ping me if you find something. Bearian (talk) 17:59, 22 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. I passed over commenting on this over a week ago, but I still haven't found anything since that qualifies the the algorithm for its own article or even a redirect/merge since then. Kingofaces43 (talk) 00:11, 28 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge or redirect to Computational phylogenetics. There's mention of the algorithm there. At least I think they're talking about the same thing. I wouldn't be opposed to deleting this because there's not much here, and it's an unlikely search term, but WP:ATD argues for the redirect. If we do redirect it, this seems like a better target than Genetic algorithm, suggested above. Actully, the more I think about it, it's a terrible search term, but a hatnote on Speciation pointing to Computational phylogenetics might make sense.-- RoySmith (talk) 12:36, 29 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect Per RoySmith. L3X1 (distænt write) 16:29, 29 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Computational phylogenetics is about the computerized analysis of actual biological data, whereas genetic algorithms are about using mechanisms inspired by biology in order to solve problems (e.g., in engineering). This stub concerns the latter, rather than the former. XOR'easter (talk) 03:07, 30 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• If merged anywhere, it should be to Genetic algorithm. I still think a full delete is perfectly fine, as someone in the future that has greater expertise may re-create the article with greater quality and breadth than this one. Just my thoughts. Andrew. Z. Colvin • Talk 22:38, 31 August 2017 (UTC) Interestingly, Inheritance (genetic algorithm) is the only related article that links to this one. But now that I am looking at it, Evolutionary algorithm seems like a better candidate to merge with. Andrew. Z. Colvin • Talk 22:59, 31 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• Selective merge to genetic algorithm. In the field of genetic algorithms, there are core concepts in the field, such as inheritance, crossover and mutation, and there are tricks of the trade to make the calculation work a little better, such as speciation, adaptive GA, and kicking the system with bouts of high mutation rate. Speciation is a real technique and all three refs are applicable, but in terms of due weight, it really only merits perhaps a single well-cited sentence in the genetic algorithm article. --Mark viking (talk) 05:17, 7 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.