Talk:Cline

Removed entries

* Cultural cline" is a gradual change of a cultural characteristic or feature over a geographical area.

The target secn concerns only change w/ time. Create a new entry if a geographic sense gets covered in WP.

* Thermocline, a layer within a body of water or air where the temperature changes with depth.

We have an article on Thermocline; under what circumstances would a writer say "cline" when they mean "thermocline"? Unless that can be explained, no user will come to the accompanying Dab Rdr with a need that will be met by a lk to that article. However, material has been moved from Thermocline to Cline (hydrology), which does belong in the Dab.

--Jerzy•t 20:57, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

Surnames

Some users will come to the accompanying Dab looking for surnames they have heard but read, and thus want Kline, Klein, etc. But they won't know they have the wrong spelling until they see the Cline (surname) SIA. They are best served by the See also entries there, and everyone else is also best served by them being elsewhere, rather than acting as useless clutter on the accompanying Dab.
--Jerzy•t 20:57, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

• That reasoning is bad, bcz those Dab pages do have entries for things named after people -- notably towns. Duh!
  --Jerzy•t 02:02, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
  

-cline

While i want to keep as clear as is feasible the line between articles that might be sought at Cline in the belief that would be a reasonable title for the article (what Dab pgs exist to deal with) and those whose titles merely include the word "cline" (not enuf to be suitable for a Dab; see #Removed entries above), i'm torn between leaving the entry

* Suffix -cline in geological fold types

in the "See also" section ("-cline" is a pretty poor candidate for an article title) and putting it in the "Scientific concepts related to change" section, where it is conceptually quite at home with the others there. I'm, uh, in-cline-d to "promote" it to there, mostly out of concern that users seeking the geology-suffix sense might expect that it would be in "Scientific concepts related to change" (or whatever title a cleverer colleague will substitute for it), and go to a dictionary or Google search without bothering to read the "See also" entries. With some misgivings, i'm moving it to the initial section that i previously ruled out as its home.
--Jerzy•t 18:02, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Cleanup

I saved the following here: The term cline was introduced by Julian Huxley in 1938 to describe a gradation in a series of subspecies with continuous change in characters over a geographical area. It can be used more generally for any gradation of measurable characters.

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