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This is a collection of discussions on the deletion of articles related to Science. It is one of many deletion lists coordinated by WikiProject Deletion sorting. Anyone can help maintain the list on this page.

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George Walker (educator)

George Walker (educator) (  | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – ( View AfD | edits since nomination)

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This subject fails WP:GNG and WP:NACADEMIC/ WP:NSCIENTIST. Third-party (independent, non-primary) sources lending significant in-depth coverage appear not to exist, and are unlikely to crop up in the future. JFHJr ( ㊟) 17:04, 2 June 2024 (UTC) reply

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Academics and educators, Science, South Africa, Switzerland, and England. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 17:44, 2 June 2024 (UTC) reply

Axel Hultgren

Axel Hultgren (  | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – ( View AfD | edits since nomination)

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He was no doubt a metallurgist, and I see that he wrote about metallurgy, but I do not see a lot of reliable secondary sources that would constitute significant coverage. Fred Zepelin ( talk) 16:46, 2 June 2024 (UTC) reply

• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. Fred Zepelin ( talk) 16:46, 2 June 2024 (UTC) reply
• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Academics and educators and Sweden. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 17:46, 2 June 2024 (UTC) reply
• Keep the subject was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences in 1930 and of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1945 so passes criterion 3 of WP:NPROF. Mccapra ( talk) 18:21, 2 June 2024 (UTC) reply
• Keep. In addition to the four pages in w:sv:Jernkontorets Annaler referenced in the English article, Swedish Wikipedia references an entry in Vem är vem inom handel och industri?: 1944–1945, so that would be a couple of different sources having significant coverage. / Julle ( talk) 20:53, 2 June 2024 (UTC) reply
• Keep. As a third source for WP:GNG we have this clipping from a Swedish mining guild, Sancte Örjens gille [ sv. And the two academy memberships give a double pass to WP:PROF#C3. — David Eppstein ( talk) 21:27, 2 June 2024 (UTC) reply
• Keep - Third party sources. WP:GN applies as well. BabbaQ ( talk) 23:33, 2 June 2024 (UTC) reply
• Keep per Mccapra AlexandraAVX ( talk) 09:10, 3 June 2024 (UTC) reply
• Keep: I agree there were no source but since the article define itself, the nominator may have bypassed WP:BEFORE. An elected member of a notable society meets WP:ANYBIO and as such, there is possibility of meeting WP:GNG and sources. Clean up is the best way of cleaning such articles. Safari Scribe ^{Edits! Talk!} 11:33, 3 June 2024 (UTC) reply
• Keep: Per Julle -- Robertjamal12 ~🔔 17:48, 3 June 2024 (UTC) reply

2-Pyridone (data page)

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This is not an article what so ever, why we need such a data page on Wikipedia? Requesting merge to 2-Pyridone or move it to Wikidata if possible. -Lemonaka 16:28, 1 June 2024 (UTC) reply

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• Merge with 2-Pyridone: Most of this would go in an infobox on the chemical, the rest is too specialized for Wikipedia. Oaktree b ( talk) 19:34, 1 June 2024 (UTC) reply
• Merge to 2-Pyridone as per above. Context-less, but useful, data with no supporting article. WeirdNAnnoyed ( talk) 01:16, 2 June 2024 (UTC) reply
• Comment: I fully agree with the above comments that this information is much more specialized than I would expect to find in Wikipedia. However, I want to note that creation of such a data page is recommended by WP:CHEMBOX.. The proposed contents of such a page in the template Wikipedia:Chemical infobox/Data page appear (to me) more useful than the information on the 2-Pyridone data page, but still rather specialized. I don't know if the editors above are aware of such data pages? Given this, I wanted to clarify whether the issue here was the contents of this specific page, or whether there should be a wider conversation about changing WP:MOSCHEM? Mgp28 ( talk) 15:12, 3 June 2024 (UTC) reply

  We don't need every peak on the NM IR or which spectral lines it makes. This is more for the Merck Manual than a general encyclopedia. I'm not adverse to simply !deleting this either. Oaktree b ( talk) 14:50, 4 June 2024 (UTC) reply

  Perhaps I was over-thinking it. I wondered if all of these Category:Chemical data pages would need consistent outcomes. I found a few discussions, such as Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Chemistry/Archive 36 § Data pages and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Chemistry/Archive 50 § Chemical data pages - move to Wikidata?, and the consensus seems to be that they're decided on a case-by-case basis. So I'm happy to !vote delete (or merge) here and not worry about the rest of the data pages. Mgp28 ( talk) 22:15, 4 June 2024 (UTC) reply

Thomas Henyey

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Has been tagged for notability for over a decade. -- Beland ( talk) 06:56, 31 May 2024 (UTC) reply

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• Delete: A few hits on similar names in Gscholar, but they could be anyone. I don't find much else for sourcing. Oaktree b ( talk) 13:07, 31 May 2024 (UTC) reply
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Mangrove Institute of Science and Technology

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Delete Fails to meet WP:GNG and WP:NSschool. Most of the references are from the institute’s website. The other link https://theorg.com/org/mangrove-institute-of-science-and-technology is from an internet directory. Wikilover3509 ( talk) 05:08, 31 May 2024 (UTC) reply

• Note: I have fixed spacing in the headers that broke some of the links, but have no opinion or further comment at this time. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 06:18, 31 May 2024 (UTC) reply
• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Schools, Science, Technology, and Bangladesh. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 06:19, 31 May 2024 (UTC) reply

List of important publications in computer science

List of important publications in computer science (  | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – ( View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Inherently original research/ synthesis. Previously survived AfD in 2006 when those policies weren't enforced I guess. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 22:53, 30 May 2024 (UTC) reply

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Bibliographies, History, Science, Computing, and Lists. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 00:14, 31 May 2024 (UTC) reply
• Delete Without clearly defined criteria for what "important" means, this article is as OR as it gets. The three criteria listed are subjective and (more damningly) unsourced. Only reference 11 approaches a treatment of this subject as a whole, and it's based on an informal survey conducted by somebody at Penn who made the results into a personal webpage. That's pretty weak. Other sources are all primary and don't discuss the topic of the list as a group, so this is a failure of WP:NLIST and grossly OR. WeirdNAnnoyed ( talk) 02:54, 31 May 2024 (UTC) reply

• CS2 → Carbon disulfide  ( talk · links · history · stats)     [ Closure:  keep/ retarget/ delete ] 

I think CS2 should point to either Counter-Strike 2 or CS2 (disambiguation), rather than Carbon disulfide (CS₂)

Googling "CS2" overwhelmingly shows Counter-Strike 2, and the names have been used interchangeably by most who are familiar with the game, including the developers. [1]

Out of the articles shown on CS2 (disambiguation) that could arguably go by the name "CS2", carbon disulfide is the lowest-trafficked, and Counter-Strike 2 the highest [2]. BugGhost 🪲👻 21:02, 30 May 2024 (UTC) reply

• Change the redirect to disambiguation as proposed. The are oh so many things spelled similarly. -- Викидим ( talk) 21:20, 30 May 2024 (UTC) reply
• Retarget to Counter-Strike 2 but add a hatnote to the disambig page -- Lenticel ^{( talk)} 04:01, 31 May 2024 (UTC) reply
• Retarget and hatnote to Counter-Strike 2 per nom. mwwv ^converse∫ _edits 15:19, 31 May 2024 (UTC) reply

• Retarget and hatnote to Counter-Strike 2. I highly doubt most people looking for information on carbon disulfide don't also know its full name.

Thanks, Neuropol ^Talk 15:24, 31 May 2024 (UTC) reply

• Move disambiguation page to the base title. I don't see a clear primary topic and redirecting this to the disambiguation page would result is a WP:MALPLACED page. In addition, the abbreviation has been used for a long time, and redirecting it to Counter-Strike 2 would create WP:RECENTISM problems. - Eureka Lott 17:45, 31 May 2024 (UTC) reply
• Move disambiguation page per EurekaLott. I don't feel that elevating the game to the status of primary topic is justified. Nickps ( talk) 19:14, 31 May 2024 (UTC) reply
• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Science and Video games. Nickps ( talk) 19:20, 31 May 2024 (UTC) reply
• Move disambiguation page to base title. I am not convinced that search hits relying on the internet-based nature of the gaming community are adequate justification for WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, any more than the fact that Google Scholar hits overwhelmingly refer to the chemical would be adequate justification for choosing the other topic as primary. — David Eppstein ( talk) 21:10, 31 May 2024 (UTC) reply
• Disambig per "Counter-Strike 2 is more likely to be searched, but not fully the primary topic either per WP:RECENTISM" Chaotic Enby ( talk · contribs) 23:26, 31 May 2024 (UTC) reply
• Disambiguate No obvious primary topic. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ ( ᴛ) 23:42, 31 May 2024 (UTC) reply
• Disambiguate per the above, this game is too new to guarantee that it will be the primary topic forever. Toadspike [Talk] 17:14, 3 June 2024 (UTC) reply