Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Antiviral Stockpile


 * 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   no consensus.  Sandstein  06:11, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Antiviral Stockpile

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Aside from the bad title, this article is trivia - it presents four meaningless, out-of-context numbers that, to the extent any of them is relevant, could easily be mentioned in one of our growing array of articles on swine flu (thank goodness Wikipedia wasn't around in 1918). Biruitorul Talk 05:00, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete 1) Article fails to state it's about antiflu medication 2) Numbers change too often while new stuff is bought and vaccins are given to make this accurate for any length of time, especially during an epidemic. 3) Merging with swine flu articles is a bad idea too because the antivirals countries have stocked up on now aren't aimed at swine flu in particular. If any coverage is to occur it should be in the article about the medicine itself. - Mgm|(talk) 11:19, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
 * "This article is currently lousy and difficult to maintain" is not an indication that the topic of the article is non-notable. AfD is about whether this topic should be included in the encyclopedia, not about whether or not the current incarnation of an article is any good. WhatamIdoing (talk) 22:06, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete As above Tresiden (talk) 19:08, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions.  —WhatamIdoing (talk) 22:06, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete, unverifiable. Tim Vickers (talk) 22:09, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Oseltamivir or other relevant page. (Please see updated view below.) Should Wikipedia have information about the practice of stockpiling drugs against pandemics?  Yes.  Is a country-by-country count of how many doses of a single drug are on hand what that article should contain?  No.  WhatamIdoing (talk) 16:55, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
 * How is that page relevant? The numbers don't even mention a specific brand of the medication and based on the sources, it includes several of them. - Mgm|(talk) 08:57, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
 * You could pick a more generic page, such as Antiviral drug, but 'Tamiflu' seems to be a particularly common choice for "personal" stockpiles (which is discouraged, but happens), so it seems relevant to the concept of antiviral stockpiles. Again:  AfD is about the topic of (in this case) stockpiles of antivirals, and not solely about the specific existing contents that happen to be on the existing page.  "This article has surmountable problems" is not a valid reason for deletion.  WhatamIdoing (talk) 06:23, 2 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete, WP:OR/WP:SYNTH. --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 17:40, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep The problems with this article are trivially surmountable.  Note that in my recent expansion, I limited myself solely to secondary sources published within the last five years in peer-reviewed medical journals.  I have completely ignored government websites like this one, some 600 books, dozens more scholarly papers, current news stories and doubtless more.  It would not be difficult to get a featured article out of this topic if anyone cared to bother with it.  WhatamIdoing (talk) 21:47, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep. This is a useful, reasonable and sourced list. This is also a well-defined separate subject. If nominator wants to discuss merging, this should not be done by nominating article for deletion.Biophys (talk) 00:46, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep and expand beyond influenza. That's the only problem, and its fixable. DGG (talk) 21:34, 6 May 2009 (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.