Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alcohols in alcoholic beverages


 * 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. (non-admin closure) — ΛΧΣ  21  16:28, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

Alcohols in alcoholic beverages

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This article is based on extensive copy-paste from both Wikipedia and external sources, but possibly falling outside the scope of either CSD G12 (Unambiguous copyright infringement) or A10 (Recently created article that duplicates an existing topic). A variety of the copied texts were discussed here. More recent editing has produced changes that might confound a search engine, but are so closely related to the original text that they are dependent. For example, "Ethanol is the active ingredient in alcoholic beverages and is produced by", from Alcoholic beverage became "Ethanol is the active ingredient in common alcoholic beverages and it is always produced" in an intermediate version, and, more recently, "Ethanol is the psychoactive ingredient...". Novangelis (talk) 06:10, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep. Nomination rationale not within purview of AFD.  The nominator obviously has been following a discussion on ANI that did not turn out how he personally wanted.  The AFD process is not for "article cleanup."  OGBranniff (talk) 06:30, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
 *  Keep Delete - the article is poorly, indeed apparently drunkenly written, and has evidently been created with a lot of careless cutting and pasting, making it badly structured and difficult to read. Those are however matters for patient editing, not deletion. The article, such as it is, is a coherent enough topic, and contains enough citations, to show that it is notable. There is no doubt that it needs substantial rewriting but the basic idea with a table of alcohols and their properties is sound, so it would be hard to justify the WP:TNT approach here . Duplicates part of existing article. Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:02, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete - unless I'm missing something, what the hell is the point of this article? Certainly from the title, you'd kinda expect alcoholic beverages to contain alcohol - so what's the point of this article? Surely any useful content belongs in Alcoholic beverage, and anything not useful doesn't belong anywhere? Definite copyvio issues, from an editor that appears to have a long-standing issue with this, weakens any reason for keeping it - and I don't see either editor above me addressing the copyvio concern. Luke no 94  (talk) 14:45, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Food and drink-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 15:32, 28 February 2013 (UTC)


 * Deleted, copyvio. Page contained substantial amounts of text copied from another Wikipedia article without attribution, and as such it was a copyright infringement, since copying our text without attribution is a violation of the CC-by-sa and GFDL terms.  Nyttend (talk) 02:40, 1 March 2013 (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.