Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Base modifying agent


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The result was delete. ✗ plicit  08:55, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

Base modifying agent

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This page has been around for 11 years with no citations, partly cause there isn't even anything to cite. It's literally just two rather redundant sentences. "Base modifying agent" isn't a specific term used in chemistry, nor any other science field that I am aware of. It doesn't really inform anything.

Honestly I feel like this page exists simply for the sake of existing? I was going to nominate it for PROD, but in the off-chance someone know of some esoteric use of this term I decided on AfD. If not I suppose it could be voted as a speedy delete. -- Tautomers (T C) 07:25, 16 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete: It seems the sentences aren't even wholly correct. According to Auburn University and this biotechnology book, a base modifying agent is a "chemical mutagen that modifies the chemical structure of one or more bases normally found in DNA." There are some brief mentions, but not enough to pass WP:NCHEM (which is just WP:GNG). Curbon7 (talk) 07:48, 16 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. Curbon7 (talk) 07:48, 16 August 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete I was also expecting this to be about DNA damage of some kind. As written this is useless, and if someone wanted to write an article at this title, the page history here wouldn't help. I guess it could be a plausible search term for Mutagen, but considering that nobody is looking at this page anyway, it's not worth it. Opabinia regalis (talk) 08:44, 16 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete This reads strangely like an item on a worksheet for a high-school chemistry class: a redundant definition and a non-illuminating example, disconnected from actual scientific parlance. As argued above, the few times that anyone in the literature uses it, they mean something else. And nobody reading a textbook on genetic engineering will have to look up Wikipedia to find out that a base modifying agent is an agent that modifies bases. XOR&#39;easter (talk) 21:00, 16 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Not a term in general use, and the stub has no RS to support the little it says. This article offers nothing to anyone. Mdewman6 (talk) 16:46, 17 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete, borderline A11 neologism. The defintion is essentially like saying, "The white cat is white." –LaundryPizza03 ( d c̄ ) 07:44, 18 August 2021 (UTC)


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