Talk:Anthropization

Latest comment: 13 years ago by Kevlar67 in topic Merge with land development


Merge with Anthropogenic

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The Anthropization and Anthropogenic articles discuss the same topic: the influence of humans on the natural world. Because article titles are supposed to be nouns, not adjectives, Anthropogenic should be merged here. Neelix (talk) 19:52, 18 December 2010 (UTC)Reply

Nope. They're fundamentally different terms: "anthropization" is used overwhelmingly in the context of alteration of the surface (vegetation, soils, etc.) in terms of its ecological effects, while "anthropogenic" is a much broader term meaning roughly "produced by humans." I'm undoing the redirect. Short Brigade Harvester Boris (talk) 02:36, 6 February 2011 (UTC)Reply
On the contrary, Boris. "Anthropogenic" has a major usage as "any human produced pollution", see my comments at [Climate Change denial]. I can't find much data on the word "anthropization", but it seems to mean "the anthropogenic process (in the sense of pollution)". Etymologically there is no reason to limit the meaning of "anthropization". I don't see any reason to believe that the word "anthropization" should only be used within the context of geology and phytology. This article says the exact opposite; although, being unsourced brings its statements into question. --IronMaidenRocks (talk) 02:52, 6 February 2011 (UTC)Reply

Time for a WP:RFC? Short Brigade Harvester Boris (talk) 04:06, 6 February 2011 (UTC)Reply

Apologies, Boris. It seems the associated meaning was created by Neelix's merger. I undid the merger, as there is no apparent link between the terms. --IronMaidenRocks (talk) 04:20, 6 February 2011 (UTC)Reply

Merge with land development

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Seems like the same concept to me, just a different word, one used in certain academic contexts, be essentially denoting the same thing. --Kevlar (talkcontribs) 20:08, 6 March 2011 (UTC)Reply