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== Odd formulation ==

The statement

 The term "liberal eugenics" does not necessarily indicate that its proponents are social liberals in the modern sense [...]

does not really make sense: There is no reason why a liberal should automatically be a social liberal, nor am I aware of a significant change in meaning of ``social liberal'' over time. If we remove the word ``social'', OTOH, the sentence has some amount of sense, but stumbles on the implied claim that the modern sense of ``liberal'' is the same as ``social liberal''. (While mostly true in the US, this is not generally true globally, and is also historically highly misleading.)

For want of knowledge of the original intention, I prefer not to edit the text myself, but I strongly suggest that it be reformulated or removed.
[[Special:Contributions/88.77.177.21|88.77.177.21]] ([[User talk:88.77.177.21|talk]]) 18:19, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

:I suggest you read the [[Talk:Liberal_eugenics/Archive_1|archived dicussions of this talk page]] to understand the original intention... --[[User:Loremaster|Loremaster]] ([[User talk:Loremaster|talk]]) 18:28, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

== Sources defining liberal eugenics ==

For the first line of this article, only 1 of the 5 sources actually uses "liberal eugenics" as a term and attempts to define it and speak to it. All of the other sources merely talk about eugenics and/or liberal political theory with regards to its implementation and practice. None of them use the phrase "liberal eugenics" with the exception of Nicholas Agar who seems to be the one who coined the term. A google search of "liberal eugenics" yields basically a bunch of hits that eventually refer back to Agar. I suggest that these other sources be removed, since they don't actually speak to "liberal eugenics" at all and only speak to eugenics in general, while some of them make an attempt to associate it with liberal political theory. I'll wait a while for a chance of discussion before removing the irrelevant sources.-[[User:Scoobydunk|Scoobydunk]] ([[User talk:Scoobydunk|talk]]) 12:27, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

Several authors have tried to clean the article up and added contemporary scholarship. But every time this happens Greyfell reverses it for no good reasons. He is clearly trying to push an ideological agenda rather than accurately protest the scholarship. A quick glance at the article’s history shows this clearly [[User:Brian Barry Smith|Brian Barry Smith]] ([[User talk:Brian Barry Smith|talk]]) 01:35, 11 April 2020 (UTC) <small>— [[User:Brian Barry Smith|Brian Barry Smith]] ([[User talk:Brian Barry Smith|talk]]&#32;• [[Special:Contributions/Brian Barry Smith|contribs]]) has made [[Wikipedia:Single-purpose account|few or no other edits]] outside this topic. </small>

== Suggest Deletion ==

Looking over the edit history (admittedly in a cursory manner), I think it is apparent that this article is rooted in an American Pro-Life bias. To make my point, one the the earliest major contributions was made by a user that has since been banned permanently from Wikipedia. I believe that political hyper-partisans created, then expanded the article, only to have it patched up by more reasoned contributors in an attempt to salvage a doomed article.
I contend that this article has an inherently biased viewpoint, that "liberal eugenics" is not really a distinct ideology but a phantom created to assign blame for a disliked ideology on to political enemies (like say, "liberal socialist programs" when referring to public education, or "conservative fascist ideals" when referring to parking tickets). Further I believe this article provides no useful information that isn't already provided in an objective way in either (or both) the Eugenics article, or the Trans-humanism article.
I do not however take the step of deletion, largely due to my own ignorance on how to use Wikipedia (I am new to this), and I, as an American political liberal, believe I lack the objective wisdom to do so on my own authority.
Thank you,
[[User:ForeverZero|ForeverZero]] ([[User talk:ForeverZero|talk]]) 13:03, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
:Regardless of ''who'' made it and whether it's biased or not, this issue is more easily resolved by simply adding an issue-box on top of the article indicating that this page lacks neutrality over completely deleting a page with notability and several sources (though the last section requires ''a lot'' of clean-up).
:Sincerely, --[[User:Namlong618|Namlong618]] ([[User talk:Namlong618|talk]]) 13:25, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

== NPOV renaming of this article ==
There are three distinct concepts being conflated in the source material and this article.  
# The functional definition- concerning who is making the eugenics decisions: the state, or the parent?  As defined in the topic sentence, this article discusses parental eugenics.  
# The proper political philosophy category for this activity.  Is it close to the idea of [[classical liberalism]] (the technical philosophical concept not to be confused with the popular sense of a politically progressive point of view).  Agar advocates this position, but Dov Fox argues in his peer reviewed political philosophy paper, this is fallacious.  Health policy expert Richard Escrow extends the argument, claiming this is more properly classified as libertarian eugenics. To associate either label is a matter of controversy, and endorsing either unnecessarily biases the article's portrayal of the phenomenon described in (1) towards one particular POV.
# The proper category from a moral philosophical POV to apply to this activity.  The advocate of the term "liberal egugenics" is a professor of moral, not political philosophy.  What Agar is interested in is whether a moral argument can be constructed based on the  [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/liberalism/#LibEth ethics of liberalism]. Not just his conclusions, but his associational method of moral argument is controversial.  In [http://www.victoria.ac.nz/staff/richard_joyce/acrobat/joyce_review.agar.pdf this review] in the journal [[Biology and Philosophy]], [[Richard Joyce (philosopher)|Richard Joyce]], a moral philosopher dissects Agar's use of moral images and contextual understanding of terms in particular domains to justify moral positions.  
Both from a perspective of moral philosophy, and political philosophy, labeling parental eugenics with any category (whether it is Liberal, Libertarian or other) is at best controversial.  This should not detract from clearly describing the concepts or biasing the reader to any particular interpretation of the non controversial factual material.  If there is value in maintaining a separate article on the subject of eugenics when it is conducted by individuals, then it would be in line with Wikipedia's NPOV guidelines to refer to the subject with a more neutral term then have sections describing the various arguments advocating how it should best be classified from moral philosophy and political philosophy points of view.  

Regarding which neutral name should be used, I have no strong opinions and perhaps some of the main contributors could suggest alternatives.  I probably would go along with any neutral functional name for eugenics directed by individuals rather than the state.  [[User:J JMesserly|J JMesserly]] ([[User talk:J JMesserly|talk]]) 20:45, 1 November 2013 (UTC)
: For a more functional treatment and historical survey of the material, Suzanne Elizabeth Evans' paper on [http://books.google.com/books?id=oNr0_YfonwUC&lpg=PA38&vq=liberal%20eugenics&pg=PA38#v=snippet&q=liberal%20eugenics&f=false Parental Eugenics] is an additional source worth a look by interested readers.  There is material here for further enhancement of this article.  -[[User:J JMesserly|J JMesserly]] ([[User talk:J JMesserly|talk]]) 18:39, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
::There has been no response in the past two weeks, if it is non controversial, then I shall be proposing the change of name to a neutral name.  Two choices that immediately come to mind are parental eugenics or consumer eugentics.  There are minor differences between the two having to do with focus.  "Parental" takes a narrower focus- working on the sort of private decisions couples make that are familiar in current society.  The other takes a more macro view of the social and economic forces driving reproductive decisions that affect genetic outcomes in a child.  As I said before, I don't have strong opinions either way, and I would tend to use the two terms interchangeably in the article since the consumer is always a parent except in speculative science fiction scenarios where a religious cult or multinational businesses are the consumers of the commercial eugenics services.  I am proposing the article be renamed to Consumer eugenics.  This was an article many years ago that had very few contributors and was once nominated for deletion.  The outcome was Keep, but due to its persistent stub status it was merged with the eugenics article.  There are references to Consumer Eugenics in the press.  These are perhaps not the best examples, but here are a few:
::* National Review: [http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/135367/consumer-eugenics/john-derbyshire "Consumer eugenics"]
::* Catholic World Report [http://www.catholicworldreport.com/Blog/835/shift_toward_consumer_eugenics.aspx#.Un_RD_nUC-U "Shift toward consumer eugenics"]
::By focusing on the sort of social forces driving parental eugenics decisions, renaming the article "Consumer eugenics" doesn't just solve the POV problem, it allows the article to grown into a broad augment of the Eugenics article going into depth of analysis and information related to the commercialization of genetics technology in the businesses focusing on child bearing.   Unless there is a strong opinion against a rename notice, I shall put one up next week sometime.  -[[User:J JMesserly|J JMesserly]] ([[User talk:J JMesserly|talk]]) 19:16, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

I agree that the term "liberal" here doesn't help.  Yes, one philosopher called it that, but others have questioned it and the word liberal has several meanings.

I would propose the use of the term "new eugenics".  Examples of this use:
*[https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_New_Eugenics.html?id=gtsCDgAAQBAJ The New Eugenics: Selective Breeding in an Era of Reproductive Technologies] - [http://www.law.uci.edu/faculty/visiting/daar/ Judith Daar], 2017, Yale University Press (book)
*[https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/icelands-new-eugenics-eliminating-people-with-down-syndrome Iceland’s ‘new eugenics’: Eliminating people with Down syndrome] - [https://humanlife.ie/president-of-human-life-international-fr-shenan-boquet/ Shenan Boquet], 2017, ''Life Site'' - (article on a "pro-life" Catholic website)
*[https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2016/04/05/modern-biotechnology-signal-rise-new-eugenics-movement/ Does modern biotechnology signal rise of new eugenics movement?] - [[Fraser Nelson]], 2016, Genetic Literacy Project
*[https://www.huffingtonpost.com/jon-entine/lets-cautiously-celebrate_b_6070462.html Let's (Cautiously) Celebrate the “New Eugenics”] - [[Jon Entine]], 2014, ''Huffington Post'' (opinion piece on website describe as "liberal" by a different definition)
*[http://science.sciencemag.org/content/294/5540/59 Is A New Eugenics Afoot?] - [[Garland E. Allen]], 2001, ''Science'' (essay in scientific journal)
*[http://jme.bmj.com/content/25/2/176 Preimplantation genetic diagnosis and the 'new' eugenics] - D.S. King, 1999, ''BMJ'' (essay in scientific journal)

One could accuse the term "new" of being vague, but I think this gets across the fact that it is enabled by new technologies.  Although I have identified uses from 1999 and 2001, This term has perhaps gained use since 2013, when [[User:J JMesserly|J JMesserly]] posted.  Arguably, it is now the [[WP:COMMON]] name.

[[User:Yaris678|Yaris678]] ([[User talk:Yaris678|talk]]) 19:25, 30 October 2017 (UTC)
:As you noted in user talk, this discussion did not previously attract much attention. Probably the only way to do that is with [[WP:RM]], so I've opened one below. <span style="white-space:nowrap;font-family:'Trebuchet MS'"> — [[User:SMcCandlish|'''SMcCandlish''']] [[User talk:SMcCandlish|☏]] [[Special:Contributions/SMcCandlish|¢]] &gt;<sup>ʌ</sup>ⱷ҅<sub>ᴥ</sub>ⱷ<sup>ʌ</sup>&lt; </span> 15:05, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

=== Requested move 31 October 2017 ===

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The result of the move request was: '''moved''' to [[New eugenics]]. [[User:Jenks24|Jenks24]] ([[User talk:Jenks24|talk]]) 10:15, 9 November 2017 (UTC)
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[[:Liberal eugenics]] → {{no redirect|Neo-eugenics}} – Per [[WP:PRECISE]], [[WP:COMMONNAME]], [[WP:NPOV]], and article scope. Detailed rationale below. <span style="white-space:nowrap;font-family:'Trebuchet MS'"> — [[User:SMcCandlish|'''SMcCandlish''']] [[User talk:SMcCandlish|☏]] [[Special:Contributions/SMcCandlish|¢]] &gt;<sup>ʌ</sup>ⱷ҅<sub>ᴥ</sub>ⱷ<sup>ʌ</sup>&lt; </span> 15:05, 31 October 2017 (UTC)
* '''Use [[New eugenics]]''' per [[WP:COMMONNAME]] <del>'''Use [[Neo-eugenics]]'''</del> <ins>[As pointed out below, my search was bollixed by lack of quotation marks around "neo-eugenics", so what follows is incorrect stats.]</ins> as broad enough in scope, non-ambiguous, and PoV-free. The term ''neo-eugenics'' (sometimes without the hyphen) in books [https://www.google.com/search?q=neo-eugenics+-wikipedia&tbm=bks] – sources we care about more than news for a topic like this – utterly dwarfs use of ''liberal eugenics'' [https://www.google.com/search?q=%22liberal+eugenics%22+-wikipedia&tbm=bks], and also beats ''new eugenics'' [https://www.google.com/search?q=%22new+eugenics%22+-wikipedia&tbm=bks] by a wide margin.  News sources (which are poor ones for science terminology) prefer "liberal" over "neo-", but the number of articles is trivially small compared to books results, so news hits are not a statistically significant sample. The ''neo-'' prefix is consistently used to indicate a movement that shares features with an earlier one that inspired it, but has a distinct break from it in various ways: ''neo-Nazi'', ''neo-conservative'', etc.  No one says "new Nazi". While "new eugenics" is attested, it is imprecise and awkward, and may wrongly imply "really, really new".  Cf. ''new left'' and ''new right'', which are only about a generation old, with anything like their current meaning (and which do in fact imply something newer that ''neo-conservative'', a term I first encountered around 1989, but not ''new right'', in this sense, until around 2000 or later).<!--
--><p>More problems with ''new eugenics'': The string produces an overwhelming number of false positives of at least three sorts: 1) "a new eugenics [something]" where "new" and "eugenics" are both modifiers of the "[something]", rather than a case of "new" modifying "eugenics". 2) Various journalism articles using that phrase are not using it as a name, but as a description. (A telltale sign of this is when the phrase is prefixed with "the").  3) A {{em|large}} number of them, worse yet, are using it in the "[[Snowclone#X is the new Y|{{var|X}} is the new {{var|Y}}]]" cliché ("genetics is the new eugenics", etc.); this badly skews the numbers that would appear to support ''new eugenics'' as a common name.</p><!--
--><p>''Liberal eugenics'' is clearly PoV, and open to multiple forms of misinterpretation. It's also a subset of the topic, describing primarily Western medical concerns only. ''Consumer eugenics'' is an even smaller subset of neo-eugenics, and by no means the most important. Many consumer eugenics ideas are in fact still science fiction.  Both terms are grossly misleading as the overall catch-all term. E.g., they do not encompass massive efforts like the state neo-eugenics program in China, which is specifically geared to enhancing intelligence (at the projected rate of 5 IQ points per generation), a new kind of "world domination within a century" plan that is the furthest thing from "liberal" or (being a communist government program to control breeding) "consumer"-oriented.</p><!--
-->While a strong [[WP:COMMONNAME]] case can be made for ''neo-eugenics'', this is basically a case where COMMONNAME doesn't really apply anyway, because none of the possible names cover the full scope, except for ''neo-eugenics'' and ''new eugenics'', while the second of those fails some of the [[WP:CRITERIA]], especially [[WP:PRECISE]] and probably also [[WP:RECOGNIZABLE]]. Really, the {{em|only}} good WP article title for this is [[Neo-eugenics]], which is itself well-attested.<br /><span style="white-space:nowrap;font-family:'Trebuchet MS'"> — [[User:SMcCandlish|'''SMcCandlish''']] [[User talk:SMcCandlish|☏]] [[Special:Contributions/SMcCandlish|¢]] &gt;<sup>ʌ</sup>ⱷ҅<sub>ᴥ</sub>ⱷ<sup>ʌ</sup>&lt; </span> 15:01, 31 October 2017 (UTC); corrected: 01:28, 9 November 2017 (UTC)</p>
:I will second this. Neo-eugenics makes more sense not only because all of the above but also because "liberal" seemingly unnecessarily excludes eugenics from fiscally conservative eugenics. What I think should be defining about this article's definition of eugenics is this: ''"In liberal, market driven societies, however, eugenics will not be coercively imposed by the state for the collective good. Instead, it will be the outcome of parental choice and the workings of the free market."'' as summarized by Peter Singer [https://www.utilitarian.net/singer/by/200609--.htm in this article.][[User:ScienceDawns|ScienceDawns]] ([[User talk:ScienceDawns|talk]]) 07:34, 4 November 2017 (UTC)
::Hi ScienceDawns. I think everyone who has commented so far would agree that "neo-eugenics" is a better term than "liberal eugenics", which is great.  The current discussion seems to be on choosing between "neo-eugenics" and "new eugenics".  Above, SMcCandlish has made an argument based on number of Google Books hits.  There was an error in the Google Books search, as pointed out below.  In reality, "new eugenics" has three times more hits than "neo-eugenics".  Which term do you think is more appropriate as the article title?  [[User:Yaris678|Yaris678]] ([[User talk:Yaris678|talk]]) 17:48, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
*'''Use [[new eugenics]]''':
**In terms of meaning... obviously the literal meanings of new and neo are identical... but I think new is possibly more appropriate here.  I think "new" is more commonly used to mark a clear difference from the past, whereas neo is just a reformulation of the same thing for a different era... and we are talking about the use of modern technology, so the methods are very different.  I will admit this is point is very subjective.
**I agree that a search on Google books can be indicative.  However, [https://www.google.com/search?q=neo-eugenics+-wikipedia&tbm=bks your search] included cases where neo was not next to eugenics.  For them to be together you need [https://www.google.com/search?q=%22neo-eugenics%22+-wikipedia&tbm=bks to use quotation marks].  (I have checked that hyphen and space give the same results.)  That gives 2,490 hits, in comparison to 9,730 for "new eugenics".  Yes, there will be a few false hits in the latter, because "new" is a common word... but I think using common words is good.
**The first two "new eugenics" hits on Google books have the term in the title of the book, which I think supports the use of the term for our article title.  I can't see any books with "neo-eugenics" in the title.  [[User:Yaris678|Yaris678]] ([[User talk:Yaris678|talk]]) 18:34, 31 October 2017 (UTC)
**:Re: "I think "new" is more commonly used" – But I've already proven that it's not, above. What the first couple of search hits do is irrelevant. When we do a [[WP:COMMONNAME]] analysis we look at usage in general, not just book titles. <span style="white-space:nowrap;font-family:'Trebuchet MS'"> — [[User:SMcCandlish|'''SMcCandlish''']] [[User talk:SMcCandlish|☏]] [[Special:Contributions/SMcCandlish|¢]] &gt;<sup>ʌ</sup>ⱷ҅<sub>ᴥ</sub>ⱷ<sup>ʌ</sup>&lt; </span> 20:24, 2 November 2017 (UTC)
**::What do you mean by proven?  Did you read the bit where I said 'However, [https://www.google.com/search?q=neo-eugenics+-wikipedia&tbm=bks your search] included cases where neo was not next to eugenics.  For them to be together you need [https://www.google.com/search?q=%22neo-eugenics%22+-wikipedia&tbm=bks to use quotation marks].  (I have checked that hyphen and space give the same results.)  That gives 2,490 hits, in comparison to 9,730 for "new eugenics".'? [[User:Yaris678|Yaris678]] ([[User talk:Yaris678|talk]]) 11:44, 3 November 2017 (UTC)
**:::Oh, rat-farts.  I didn't catch that part, and did indeed forget that Google drops the dash and treats it as two independent words when you feed it something hyphenated without quoting it.  I feel like my brain fell out.  '''Support [[New eugenics]]''', per being corrected! <span style="white-space:nowrap;font-family:'Trebuchet MS'"> — [[User:SMcCandlish|'''SMcCandlish''']] [[User talk:SMcCandlish|☏]] [[Special:Contributions/SMcCandlish|¢]] &gt;<sup>ʌ</sup>ⱷ҅<sub>ᴥ</sub>ⱷ<sup>ʌ</sup>&lt; </span> 01:28, 9 November 2017 (UTC)
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== Cleanup ==

Per concerns expressed above, and particularly the sourcing claim in the intro, I've culled everything that's uncited or only cited to something that doesn't use the term "liberal eugenics" - [[User:David Gerard|David Gerard]] ([[User talk:David Gerard|talk]]) 09:43, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

:Well it's gotten somewhere. I have added some wording to the lead to explain the theory more clearly and also did some clean up. I don't think this article is anywhere near deletion now. You we're right about that source of course. [[User:AlwaysUnite|AlwaysUnite]] ([[User talk:AlwaysUnite|talk]]) 19:27, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

::I must note I fully support your attempt to clean this up, even if I reversed bits :-) - [[User:David Gerard|David Gerard]] ([[User talk:David Gerard|talk]]) 10:14, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
:Some of that, which removed sourced material using one of the alternative terms, will need to be undone, because they're all within the current scope of the article. <span style="white-space:nowrap;font-family:'Trebuchet MS'"> — [[User:SMcCandlish|'''SMcCandlish''']] [[User talk:SMcCandlish|☏]] [[Special:Contributions/SMcCandlish|¢]] &gt;<sup>ʌ</sup>ⱷ҅<sub>ᴥ</sub>ⱷ<sup>ʌ</sup>&lt; </span> 15:07, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

The preceding comments about definitions and distinctions are correct. This page is inaccurate because editors like Greyfell continue to insert odd ideological statements into the text, and conflate liberal eugenics with the worst abuses. When past editors have added nuance to this page, and cited contemporary authors like Savulescu and Devolder, they are immediately deleted by an obsessive, ideological editor. This clearly violates Wikipedia’s policy of creating neutral articles that include the range of scholarly opinions rather than politically charged ones. [[User:Brian Barry Smith|Brian Barry Smith]] ([[User talk:Brian Barry Smith|talk]]) 01:33, 11 April 2020 (UTC) <small>— [[User:Brian Barry Smith|Brian Barry Smith]] ([[User talk:Brian Barry Smith|talk]]&#32;• [[Special:Contributions/Brian Barry Smith|contribs]]) has made [[Wikipedia:Single-purpose account|few or no other edits]] outside this topic. </small>

== Definitions  ==
{{archive top| See [[Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Lewis Nottingham]]}}
For some reason a couple of editors are conflating the worst excesses of 1920s eugenics with "liberal" or "new" eugenics, which is conceptually and morally different. The term was coined in the year 1998 by Nicholas Agar in a paper, and then in a book in 2004. It emphasizes individual parental choice rather than state compulsion. It does not come from Francis Galton, who coined the term "eugenics," but who had very different views from Nick Agar, or the many other bioethicists who use "liberal eugenics." These include Peter Singer, Julian Savulescu, Allen Buchanan, Dan Brock, and many other professional bioethicists. I propose simply defining the term in a clear and neutral way, and not including factually erroneous claims (added by Marek and Grayfell) about "excluding those deemed lesser" from reproducing. That's simply not what liberal eugenics means. 

Here is Galton's original definition of "eugenics" from 1883: 
Eugenics is “the science of improving stock, which is by no means confined to questions of judicious mating, but which, especially in the case of man, takes cognizance of all influences that tend in however remote a degree to give to the more suitable races or strains of blood a better chance of prevailing speedily over the less suitable.”

Here is Nicholas Agar's definition of "liberal eugenics" in 1998 ("Liberal Eugenics," from Public Affairs Quarterly):  
While old fashioned authoritarian eugenicists sought to produce citizens out of a single centrally designed mould, '''the distinguishing mark of the new liberal eugenics is state neutrality'''. Access to information about the full range of genetic therapies will allow prospective parents to look to their own values in selecting improvements for future children. Authoritarian eugenicists would do away with ordinary procreative freedoms. Liberals instead propose radical extensions of them."

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:I agree with this comment. For some reason, some Wiki editors are trying to bias the discussion in a particular direction, rather than staying neutral. They delete citations of the actual people who coined the word and defend the concept, including those you cite -- Buchanan, Savulescu, and Agar -- and instead they use definitions from Galton and cite books like Edwin Black's "War Against the Weak." This is one source, written by a journalist, rather than by an expert in the field. 

:This page, and the main eugenics page, are quite obviously biased. This needs to be fixed so that the editors are not "for" or "against" the concept, but are instead accurately describing the relevant positions.  <!-- Template:Unsigned --><small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Drexelbiologist|Drexelbiologist]] ([[User talk:Drexelbiologist#top|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Drexelbiologist|contribs]]) 17:47, 1 February 2020 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
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== Preimplantation genetic diagnosis and "Emerging techniques" ==

This is regarding [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=New_eugenics&diff=1235035824&oldid=1234925907 these edits].

{{ping|Biohistorian15}} You do not have consensus for this, and edit warring to restored contested content is itself tendentious.

As before, if reliable sources summarize this as an aspect of "new eugenics" specifically, summarize what those sources are actually saying. This isn't that, it's just lazy copy/pasting from somewhere else. There is very little reason to add multiple paragraphs when we already have [[preimplantation genetic diagnosis]]. The goal of this article is explicitly '''not''' to explain basic facts about "Preimplantation genetic diagnosis", it is to explain new eugenics. Further, Wikipedia's goal s not to make new eugenics seem more impressive by padding out the article with redundant content on supposedly related topics. It is up to reliable sources to determine what is and is not relevant. It isn't up to your whims, and those whims do not give you an excuse to ignore consensus. 

As for [[Richard Lynn]], good lord, really? Trying to cite an unreliable source which mentions this once, in passing, is completely unpersuasive. Even if Lynn were a reliable source for basic facts (which he is not, especially not for medical facts), this source is far, far too flimsy for this purpose, and yet again, {{tq|"relevantly"}} is [[WP:EDITORIALIZING]]. [[User:Grayfell|Grayfell]] ([[User talk:Grayfell|talk]]) 19:31, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

:Grayfell, your constant insistence that every scholarly source you disagree with is universally "FRINGE", is an increasingly dangerous endeavor. The claim I cited Lynn for was entirely reasonable, and not all that controversial. It wasn't POV in any case; In fact, some rightists would like to ''not'' have these new techniques classified as "eugenic" whatsoever. 
:I would like to introduce a "Techniques" (*alternatively entitled e.g. "Modalities" etc. ...) section here. And there is really no obvious reason not to do this.  
:I agree that the moved content is not perfect, but then it's not like you've ever tried actually removing redundancies or so in our weeks of interacting, have you? In any case, an imperfect albeit informative section is not simply "padding", and the topic is not "supposedly related". [[User:Biohistorian15|Biohistorian15]] ([[User talk:Biohistorian15|talk]]) 19:47, 17 July 2024 (UTC)
::If you really want to deny that PGD has anything to do with "new eugenics" then I think most third party editors would agree that you have absolutely no expertise in this content area and should take a step back. [[User:Biohistorian15|Biohistorian15]] ([[User talk:Biohistorian15|talk]]) 19:53, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

:::Apparently, you do not understand what I am saying at all. As has already been explained to you by multiple editors, Wikipedia has already had many, many, many discussions about Richard Lynn being fringe, and this specific usage is very flimsy, since you only added it after the fact. 
:::It is not up to you to decide that a single brief mention in a fringe source must make multiple paragraphs "reasonable", nor your own edits "obvious". Describing your own actions this way doesn't magically make them any more rational, nor does it allow you to bypass consensus.
:::As I've explained, you need to cite sources which directly explain the connection to new eugenics. Pretty much anything related to modern reproductive technology could be framed as being relevant to new eugenics. It isn't up to you, as an editor, to make this connection. It is up to sources, and specifically reliable sources. [[User:Grayfell|Grayfell]] ([[User talk:Grayfell|talk]]) 20:21, 17 July 2024 (UTC)
:::Just passing by. The deleted material about PGD seems to be overviews of various technologies without explicitly talking about their connection to new eugenics. I agree with Grayfell, if folks want to see this information, they can go to the appropriate wiki article. No need to include them all here without significant info.
:::Richard Lynn is definitely a poor source, he self-describes as a scientific racist. [[User:Bluethricecreamman|Bluethricecreamman]] ([[User talk:Bluethricecreamman|talk]]) 04:08, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
::::Just passing by; Of course I won't go against "consensus", but I think it interesting that, again, an account chimes in that I accused of tagteaming with Grayfell in a related political AFD discussion just a few days ago. [[User:Biohistorian15|Biohistorian15]] ([[User talk:Biohistorian15|talk]]) 10:40, 18 July 2024 (UTC)

== Merge proposal ==

There's a new article on [[Private eugenics]], primarly a coat-rack for Raposo (2022), but the scope seems very similar to that article here at [[New eugenics]]. Readers might be best served by consolidating the material here, outlining any distinction between the terms on this page. [[User:Klbrain|Klbrain]] ([[User talk:Klbrain|talk]]) 13:52, 28 March 2025 (UTC)
:Similarly for [[Prevention of autosomal recessive disorders]]; the primary reasons being [[WP:MERGEREASON|short text, context and overlap]]. [[User:Klbrain|Klbrain]] ([[User talk:Klbrain|talk]]) 13:04, 29 March 2025 (UTC)

::I oppose merging with [[Prevention of autosomal recessive disorders]]. The connection to autosomal recessive disorders is not well-explained at either article. It might seem self-evident, but I don't think this is enough for a merge. Only one source at that article is used to make a direct connection to the topic of 'eugenics', and that source requires enough nuance to summarize that it should not be taken for granted. 
::As for private eugenics, I agree that looks like a coatrack, but are sources treating this term as a synonym for 'new eugenics' or is it just another, similar subset of 'eugenics'?
::[[User:Grayfell|Grayfell]] ([[User talk:Grayfell|talk]]) 17:42, 29 March 2025 (UTC)

: I agree with not merging [[Prevention of autosomal recessive disorders]] -- the article is a bit broader scope and would be tricky to merge. I think it definitely makes sense to merge [[private eugenics]], though. "Private eugenics" is not a standard term and it seems to be completely synonymous with new eugenics. I'm not sure how much of it is actually good enough to merge in. The material is quite basic, vague, and general. It appears to be original research, and it reads like a college student's essay rather than a concise encyclopedia entry. That said, time permitting, I'd be happy to help with the merge effort. What's the normal/best protocol for something like this - is it OK for an editor to just go ahead and do the merge, should we wait for more discussion to play out, or should we file a formal request for merge/ request for deletion? [[User:Danski14|Danski14]]<sup>[[User talk:Danski14|(talk)]]</sup> 18:05, 7 June 2025 (UTC)