Talk:Division (biology)

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Disambiguation?

It seems this should be a disambiguation page, with the botanical meaning redirecting to Phylum, and the zoological one redirecting to an article consisting of the paragraph from this one. A possible problem is that, currently a lot of taxoboxes are linking here - some of them have the links to "<Rank name> (biology)" hard coded.

It seems to me, from this article, like "Division (biology)" has the main meaning of "Phylum", and should redirect there. A hatnote can be added once "Division (zoology)" is established. Division should remove the link to this article, and link only to "Phylum" and "Division (zoology)" NisJørgensen (talk) 12:07, 24 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 20 November 2024

It has been proposed in this section that Division (biology) be renamed and moved to Division (taxonomy).

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Division (biology) → Division (taxonomy) – Poor qualifier given the existence of cell division; retarget Division (biology) to Division#Science as {{R from incomplete disambiguation}}. Mdewman6 (talk) 00:56, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Rename per nom. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 04:26, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support – the article on cell division frequently refers to it as just division, so it does have a "legitimate claim" to the title Division (biology). Looking at the pageviews, Cell division gets over an order of magnitude more pageviews than Division (biology), so even if the abbreviated term for cell division is somewhat less common, it's enough to make this a WP:NOPRIMARY situation (i.e. WP:INCDAB). I agree that Division (taxonomy) is the best alternative disambiguator. jlwoodwa (talk) 06:26, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support. More precise and less ambiguous. — Jts1882 | talk 10:10, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment/query. Should the fact that the related articles family (biology), order (biology), class (biology), kingdom (biology), and domain (biology) all use the same biology qualifer influence this outcome? Esculenta (talk) 16:02, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Personally, I think all of these would benefit from a rename to foo (taxonomy) for clarity's sake. Fritzmann (message me) 17:12, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support per Jts1882. Eucalyptusmint (talk) 19:23, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]