Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Acidic mouth


 * 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 Delete. --MelanieN (talk) 22:17, 22 August 2015 (UTC)

Acidic mouth

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Zero pubmed hits for the term "Acid mouth", "Acidic mouth", "Acid mouth syndrome" or Acidic mouth syndrome"

The majority of the references are very poor, and fall well below accepted standards for medical articles (WP:MEDRS). Importantly the references do not contain this term. The very few reliable sources in the article (e.g. ) also do not contain any such term.

I share the concerns first raised about this article by that this article is OR and is attempting to present a term which is not an accepted scientific term as such. This article is really trying to mash together concepts dealt with on Xerostomia, Dental caries and Acid erosion. Given the very poor referencing compared to Wikipedia's existing articles on these topics, I feel that any merging of content is unwise (and also unnecessary duplication). I have however scavenged a useful diagram from this article to xerostomia. Matthew Ferguson (talk) 16:59, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

Delete Nothing in Pubmed or of any significance in Google Scholar. Seems to represent OR and is better covered in passing in other entries. Jrfw51 (talk) 18:41, 15 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom and above. --Tom (LT) (talk) 01:02, 16 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. -- CFCF  🍌 (email) 22:59, 16 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Not even a standard google result returns any results other than this article. PriceDL (talk) 23:09, 16 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Merge - if it helps the other articles that related to it, then it should be added. I must remind other editors that an article should not be deleted because it doesn't meet MEDRS or else we would be discussing hundreds of other articles. Not meeting MEDRS is not a reason to delete an article.
 *  Bfpage &#124;leave a message 19:36, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment - This is an acceptable source coming from a state health department: "Focus on Oral Health" (PDF). ndhealth.gov. North Dakota Department of Health. Retrieved 14 December 2013.
 *  Bfpage &#124;leave a message 19:44, 22 August 2015 (UTC)


 * 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.