Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Specialization (functional)

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The result was delete. Sandstein 08:07, 7 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Specialization (functional)

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Page deprodded without expllanation. To recap my rationale for deleting this page, it is an old, unreferenced, poorly written stub that duplicates information covered at Division of labor and Multicellular organism. The last paragraph is of unclear relevance to either of these topics. –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 02:47, 30 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Economics-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 02:53, 30 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Finance-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 02:53, 30 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Weak delete - wow, this article was even worse than you made it sound! I'm unsure how to proceed. On the one hand, specialization and division of labor are different concepts - it is possible for instance to imagine a task in which people divide up the labor into smaller parts, but where no one has any particular skill over anyone else in those parts. On the other hand, this article is not really adding any value to the encyclopedia at the moment, and I'm weakly inclined to delete and just let the Specialization disambig page point people elsewhere, including Economic specialization's redirect to division of labor. I was going to try to reformat the page to at least clearly delineate the examples it uses, but realized it would have just been a truncated version of the disambig page. I do believe it is possible to write an article uniting the broad themes of specialization beyond its specific applications, but until such an article is written, it's probably best to point readers elsewhere. MarginalCost (talk) 12:58, 30 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.