Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dictionary of chemical formulas/Merge

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was KEEP. -

Dictionary of chemical formulas/Merge

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This page, and all associated pages, are subpages of the article. Problem? Subpages do not exist in the article namespace, so the article in question is considered separate. The nomination also includes the linked "subpages". I don't know if the merging project is dead; I don't know if this is even encyclopædic, either. We could also move this to the talk namespace, if the project is even still alive. (Due to technical limitations, this is a subpage of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dictionary of chemical formulas.

• Here is the list of articles associated with this AfD--at least this is everything that links to the main /Merge page. Black Falcon 07:06, 11 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

1. Dictionary of chemical formulas/Merge
2. Dictionary of chemical formulas/Merge/A
3. Dictionary of chemical formulas/Merge/B
4. Dictionary of chemical formulas/Merge/Ca-Cu
5. Dictionary of chemical formulas/Merge/D (redirect page)
6. Dictionary of chemical formulas/D
7. Dictionary of chemical formulas/Merge/E (redirect page)
8. Dictionary of chemical formulas/E
9. Dictionary of chemical formulas/Merge/F (redirect page)
10. Dictionary of chemical formulas/F
11. Dictionary of chemical formulas/Merge/G
12. Dictionary of chemical formulas/Merge/H
13. Dictionary of chemical formulas/Merge/I
14. Dictionary of chemical formulas/Merge/K (redirect page)
15. Dictionary of chemical formulas/K
16. Dictionary of chemical formulas/Merge/L
17. Dictionary of chemical formulas/Merge/M
18. Dictionary of chemical formulas/Merge/N
19. Dictionary of chemical formulas/Merge/O
20. Dictionary of chemical formulas/Merge/P
21. Dictionary of chemical formulas/Merge/S
22. Dictionary of chemical formulas/Merge/C
23. Dictionary of chemical formulas/Merge/C2
24. Dictionary of chemical formulas/Merge/C3
25. Dictionary of chemical formulas/Merge/C4
26. Dictionary of chemical formulas/Merge/C5
27. Dictionary of chemical formulas/Merge/C6
28. Dictionary of chemical formulas/Merge/C7
29. Dictionary of chemical formulas/Merge/C8
30. Dictionary of chemical formulas/Merge/C9
31. Dictionary of chemical formulas/Merge/C10
32. Dictionary of chemical formulas/Merge/C11
33. Dictionary of chemical formulas/Merge/C12
34. Dictionary of chemical formulas/Merge/C13
35. Dictionary of chemical formulas/Merge/C14
36. Dictionary of chemical formulas/Merge/C15
37. Dictionary of chemical formulas/Merge/C16
38. Dictionary of chemical formulas/Merge/C17
39. Dictionary of chemical formulas/Merge/C18
40. Dictionary of chemical formulas/Merge/C19
41. Dictionary of chemical formulas/Merge/C20
42. Dictionary of chemical formulas/Merge/C21
    (redirect page)
43. Dictionary of chemical formulas/C21
44. Dictionary of chemical formulas/Merge/C22
    (redirect page)
45. Dictionary of chemical formulas/C22
46. Dictionary of chemical formulas/Merge/C23
    (redirect page)
47. Dictionary of chemical formulas/C23
48. Dictionary of chemical formulas/Merge/C24
    (redirect page)
49. Dictionary of chemical formulas/C24
50. Dictionary of chemical formulas/Merge/C25-C29
    (redirect page)
51. Dictionary of chemical formulas/C25-C29
52. Dictionary of chemical formulas/Merge/C30-C39
    (redirect page)
53. Dictionary of chemical formulas/C30-C39
54. Dictionary of chemical formulas/Merge/C40-C49
    (redirect page)
55. Dictionary of chemical formulas/C40-C49
56. Dictionary of chemical formulas/Merge/C50-C100
    (redirect page)
57. Dictionary of chemical formulas/C50-C100

• Huh? We are voting on whether to delete a verb which may be applied to articles?Inkpaduta 04:12, 11 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • No. Must have been the fact that that slash is in there. The page should be correctly listed.
    daaaaah!) 04:22, 11 February 2007 (UTC)[reply
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• Userfy, then delete - this is the only solution I can think of given that I still don't understand the exact purpose of the page. Given that all of the pages seem to be created by User:Eequor, I would suggest userfying to his/her page. -- Black Falcon 06:46, 11 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• userfy per above. That is an excellent solution. Niffweed17, Destroyer of Chickens 16:27, 11 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• userfy only through total bafflement, would prefer deletion. "Dictionary of...." article title says it all about why this should not be in Wikipedia Madmedea 17:36, 11 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep!!!. These Tables are extremely important since they provide connection to a significant number of articles describing different chemical compounds. This is very important to have for anyone who writes Wikipedia articles on chemical or biochemical topics. Before deciding anything you must consult with several Wikipedia users who are familiar with chemistry. Someone did excellent job by creating these Tables. One can tell that this is a "Dictionary", but such Dictionary is necessary and convient for developmet of articles.Biophys 06:19, 12 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • If the purpose of these lists is not actually to be articles themselves, but to be aids in the development of articles, then they do not belong in the main namespace, but belong in the project namespace. That's one of the very things that the project namespace is for. Uncle G 10:26, 12 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment This is essentially another way of navigating wikipedia, similar to by alphabetical order. Normally when one selects a category the articles are listed alphabetically. For this category (chemicals) alphabetical order is not necessarily the best way to navigate. I see use in this but it would need to be automated from chemboxes rather than a user maintained list.--Nick Y. 19:42, 12 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment. Then, we should contact author or someone else who could make this properly, insted of simply deleting this valuable work. I would like to note that aricles about many chemical compunds look really professional, see for example Lanosterol, which is accesible through one of these tables for deletion. Biophys 20:52, 12 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep As a chemist I agree with Biophys that it is useful to list compounds by formula as well as by name, since most chemists actually think in formulas or in structures. There may be a better way to present the data, but I would keep the present article until something better is available. Dirac66 02:34, 13 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. I suggest moving this into
  John Vandenberg 07:18, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply
  ]
• Almost anything except delete - I am withdrawing my suggestion to userfy then delete in light of additional suggestions (transferring to a WikiProject, temporarily leaving it, etc. As I understand from the "/Merge" in the titles and some of the comments above, the articles are intended for organization/development purposes. Although I don't think they should remain in this state for long, it would be a disservice to WP and to the editors involved to simply remove the mechanism they have created without at least offering an equal or better alternative. Cheers, Black Falcon 07:25, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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