Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Affect of drugs on the adolescent brain and brain development


 * 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. Michig (talk) 17:37, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

Affect of drugs on the adolescent brain and brain development

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Looks like original research or novel synthesis of existing sources, which is not allowed in Wikipedia. The clause: "The purpose of this article and the rest of the research that will be presented in this paper..." indicates this, and a reading of the article seems to bear it out. Writ Keeper &#9863;&#9812; 17:18, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Note by nom: If the article is kept, it needs to be moved to "Effect of drugs on...", since "affect" is the wrong word. Not much point in moving it until after the AfD concludes, though. Writ Keeper &#9863;&#9812; 17:25, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete OR, and an essay to boot. Buggie111 (talk) 17:20, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete per nominator. Original author is a single purpose account with no other edits besides this article and a self-identification on their user page.Vulcan&#39;s Forge (talk) 17:58, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete Original essay. Safiel (talk) 18:14, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep While the article may be essay-like, the topic seems to me to be valid. I have done a cursory search and can't find mentions of this area in Neuropharmacology, Recreational drug use, Long-term effects of cannabis etc, and yet a web search seems to show a vast amount of recent research in the area. However, much of the beginning of the article is already covered by the articles I've listed, and the rest does need editing to remove the synthesis. --Noiratsi (talk) 18:19, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment I've just noticed the topic is referenced in the final two paragraphs of Long-term effects of cannabis. Not sure whether the article under discussion contains anything that's not covered by those paragraphs. --Noiratsi (talk) 18:23, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment Also just discovered Long-term effects of alcohol. In light of this I'm tending towards suggesting Delete. I really should do my research more carefully before I comment. --Noiratsi (talk) 18:26, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete, original research. Perhaps the title (minus the spelling error) could be recreated later as a proper article about this topic, but this content isn't going to be usable therein.  Nyttend (talk) 18:35, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete; as the nom pointed out, violates WP:OR and its synthesis section. The content is unencyclopedic as it currently stands, but I agree with Nyttend that a proper article would be appropriate.   dci  &#124;  TALK   18:58, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure; an article with this title should have to cover more than just alcohol and marijuana, which might make the scope too broad. Perhaps splitting it into sub-articles by drug and expanding the scope of the physiological effects (so, articles like "Effect of alcohol on teenagers" and "Effect of marijuana on teenagers") might work better. Writ Keeper &#9863;&#9812; 19:04, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Makes sense. If someone was willing to do it, I suppose there could be a central article with this title, then the sub-articles you mentioned.  That way, the general overview of addictives' effects on teenagers' brains would be covered, as would the details.   dci  &#124;  TALK   19:17, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm not so sure - the overall point the article is making is that drugs can affect the development of the brain. To me it makes more sense to come at the subject from the brain development perspective than from the individual perspective of each drug. Having a separate article for each drug and its effects might simply lead to a lot of very short articles. And as I mentioned above, we already have sections about alcohol and cannabis, neither of which contain enough to merit individual articles. For me, the merit to this article lies in the fact that it points out the possibility of any and all drugs affecting brain development at a particular stage of life. --Noiratsi (talk) 19:49, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Well, we could start with a central article on the topic, then see where we are. At any rate, this article probably does meet deletion criteria in its current form.   dci  &#124;  TALK   19:24, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete - as WP:OR. --Sue Rangell ✍ ✉ 00:15, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:27, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Behavioural science-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:27, 14 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete, essay/synthesis/OR. Reads as if somebody uploaded their term paper. --MelanieN (talk) 19:57, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete and B- on the term paper. Logical Cowboy (talk) 15:44, 15 December 2012 (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.