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The result was merge to Hexadecane. Stifle ( talk) 11:21, 3 August 2021 (UTC) reply

Hexadecyl

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hexadecyl is not a notable topic in itself. It is part of many chemicals, some of which are notable, but as a group or radical, there are almost no writings. ChemSpider entries show nothing for notability as it aims to list everything. Graeme Bartlett ( talk) 13:13, 19 July 2021 (UTC) reply

• Delete; if the article were a well-balanced, well-written overview of the distribution of the hexadecyl group in nature, its properties, and the importance of chemicals that contain it, I'd suggest keeping it. But as it stands, the article can't decide whether it's about a group or a radical, and is merely a handful of odds-and-ends. Compare to the (good) article on the Phenyl group. There is nothing in the current article worth salvaging. Elemimele ( talk) 15:58, 19 July 2021 (UTC) reply

• Delete Amongst functional groups this one is hardly notable compared to other major ones as listed on the page for Functional groups. Further, small more commonly encountered alkyl functional groups don't have pages. If this one were permitted it would suggest a lot of other trivial functional groups would need or deserve pages and would quickly become cumbersome. Some of the information on the article might be better served on other pages, but not the point of a re-direct. -- Tautomers_{( T C)} 02:10, 30 July 2021 (UTC) reply

• Merge a few sentences into Alkyl, which is currently underdeveloped and could use some material about the uses and properties of individual alkyls. Reyk _YO! 08:59, 30 July 2021 (UTC) reply
• Merge though I prefer target of Hexadecane, or possibly create a new target on "large alkyl groups" (whatever the term for that is). There is the WP:XY issue regarding Hexadecane being the target as opposed to Alkyl. The group is rare enough that I think hexadecane is the better place to discuss it, and alkyls with >12 carbons aren't even mentioned at alkyl. Most of the content looks to be a bad attempt at a literature review and can be removed. Also also, the title really should have been "Hexadecyl group". User:力 (power~enwiki, π, ν) 18:31, 30 July 2021 (UTC) reply
• Merge, make one sentence into hexadecane. Christian75 ( talk) 10:28, 3 August 2021 (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.