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Nomination of Haplogroup G (Y-DNA) by country for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Haplogroup G (Y-DNA) by country is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Haplogroup G (Y-DNA) by country until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Crusoe8181 (talk) 11:11, 16 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Crusoe8181 wants to delete this page for which I contributed most of the information based on peer-reviewed published studies. His objection is that all the published studies in the area of population genetics do not use true random sampling. Each population genetics author has approached his/her study differently. Often the author wanted to restrict sampling to persons likely to belong to the original population of the world location, and that is not a precise method because of self-reported ancestral information. It is also likely that none of the researchers have had the funding necessary to test many thousands of samples in a country to match the same standard of 90 or 95% confidence level that would be used in polling. But the data do provide essential information as to the likelihood of spread of human genetic groups across country boundaries. If Crusoe8181 succeeds here, then to be consistent, you will have to delete all info in every population genetics item on Wikipedia that discusses geographical spread of human haplogroups (the genetic groupings) and their subgroups because no study to date has used true random sampling as would be seen in a well-designed poll. RayHBanks (talk) 11:11, 16 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You need to post this in the AFD [1] for people to read and consider it for the deletion discussion. Dream Focus 16:23, 28 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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