Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bad Science: The Short Life and Weird Times of Cold Fusion


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The result was   keep. Nomination withdrawn, non-admin closure. Pcap ping  12:52, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Bad Science: The Short Life and Weird Times of Cold Fusion

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No evidence that this book passes WP:BK. While it is a useful reference for the Cold fusion article, I don't see what justifies a separate article about it. Pcap ping  01:42, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions.   -- Raven1977 (talk) 02:11, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions.   -- Raven1977 (talk) 02:11, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Merge with Gary Taubes, but get rid of the "table of contents." Cosmic Latte (talk) 03:14, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
 * This book is already discussed in his bio, and this separate article doesn't have much additional content (except for the TOC). Pcap ping  06:14, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I lean toward keeping it, because it is a book by a notable author on a notable topic that happens, in my opinion, to be pretty good. However, I am not an expert in the minimum-notability-for-wikipedia department, so if others think it should go, that is OK with me. Olorinish (talk) 03:48, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Redirect. If the table of contents is removed, there's not enough info left to sustain an article. - Mgm|(talk) 09:25, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Conspiracy theories-related deletion discussions.  __meco (talk) 09:29, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Gary Taubes. Independent notability for the book not established. • Gene93k (talk) 11:24, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Strong keep on the basis of the reviews of the book in serious periodicals: Worldcat lists 3: Burr, A. F. 1994. "Bad Science: The Short Life and Weird Times of Cold Fusion by Gary Taubes". AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. 62, no. 6: 575.; Taubes, Gary, and Bruce V Lewenstein. "Bad Science: The Short Life and Weird Times of Cold Fusion." Isis. 86. 1 (1995): 144; Hoffman, N. J. "BAD SCIENCE The Short Life and Weird Times of Cold Fusion I." FUSION TECHNOLOGY -ILLINOIS-. 25. 2 (1994): 225. One professional magazine aimed at university teachers, the major history of science academic journal, and he speciality journal in the field. That's significant coverage indeed for something which is basically popular science. That's enough for notability by our standards. In addition, the book itself is found in 992 worldCat libraries, which is very substantial for a science book of this sort. I havent even looked for reviews in popular periodicals, but there are certain to be some. Reviews probe the notability of a book.  The article needs rewriting, but that is, as always, possible. I see a certain trend here to nominate books for deletion tht happen to talk about subjects that some people would like to demphasise.   That may not be the case here--I rather think the nomination was spurrred by the very low quality of the article, and the lack of attempt of it to find what seems to be very obvious sourcing. DGG (talk) 08:42, 19 November 2008 (UTC)


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