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While I can't help but smirk at the blunt description in the lead of the article, I think it should probably be changed for the sake of clarity. It would be more helpful to say why he was a quack and charlatan . Bear in mind that some people who only read the lead section need to be fully availed of the salient facts and that simply referring to him as a quack does little to enlighten the reader as to the nature of his malpractice. Edaham (talk) 00:44, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

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What an off beat topic.

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Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 01:14, 26 May 2018 (UTC)

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Hi, many thanks for your categorisation efforts. However, there's no need to add any article to a parent category like non-Darwinian evolution as well as to a child category like Lamarckism, as these things are generally inherited. In fact, it's undesirable for an article to be in both. All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 07:38, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

• @Chiswick Chap: Thanks for the advice, the categories is new to me. Do you mind looking at deistic evolution, the article is copyvio, but I believe it should be worked on and kept by re-writing it. Any ideas what to do with it? Skeptic from Britain (talk) 21:12, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

Sorry, didn't see this. The article needs a complete rewrite, but I agree that it's a worthy topic. Unfortunately the term is rare; it's effectively a synonym for one of the senses of 'Theistic evolution', i.e. a mess.

On a different topic, in the article on Orthogenesis I've named and cited a long list of people in the table who promulgated versions of the theory. You might wish to pop them into your Orthogenesis category. All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 12:11, 12 October 2018 (UTC)

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