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I'm not sure why it's necessary to keep Lepisosteiformes as a redirect to here, I don't know of any other extant fish order that has its page redirect to a stem-group. Not to mention that this basically makes this page paraphyletic, since it covers both basal ginglymodians and lepisosteiformes while allowing Semionotiformes to have their own page. There are plenty of higher-order taxa out there which have small pages, doesn't mean that their well-documented subtaxa should be merged with them. Don't really think that this is a case where lumping the pages is warranted. Geekgecko (talk) 20:04, 25 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Lepisosteiformes as a whole (including extinct members) is not really discussed separately from the broader Ginglymodi. I would be more open to a split if you were willing to put more effort into actually writing a proper article about Lepisosteiformes, including its fossil representatives, rather than just creating a short stub just for the sake of doing so. Hemiauchenia (talk) 20:37, 25 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Well, the article had to start somewhere. I can later add more information about the biogeographical history of the group based on Deesri et al (2016), Cavin et al (2018), and Cavin et al (2019) if I recreate the page, in addition to adding more info about basal ginglymodian biogeography to differentiate them from Lepisosteiformes. Geekgecko (talk) 20:52, 25 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
