Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Centrum (multivitamin)


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The result was   Keep- I'm being bold and closing the afd per WP:SNOW. Umbralcorax (talk) 14:05, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

Centrum (multivitamin)

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Delete drug that is not approved by FDA not intended to prevent, treat or cure any disease, and hasn't generated significant coverage in reliable 3rd party sources. "centrum vitamins" generates 580k ghits, but mostly are how and where to buy it, a few are critics including "centrumistoxic.com" but nothing that seems to be a reliable source providing significant coverage. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 18:00, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak keep I found a metric buttload of news hits, but most seem to be trivial. Ten Pound Hammer  and his otters • (Many otters • One hammer • HELP) 18:03, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep Very well known brand of vitamins. Not approved,  because it's in a class of products not needing approval, vitamins not being currently considered a "drug." DGG (talk) 18:37, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Strong keep and flag for major expansion. Very well-known brand in the USA; I'm surprised this is all there is on this subject on Wikipedia. To echo DGG, the "not intended to prevent..." statement is something that vitamin manufacturers have to put on product labels in the USA because vitamins are not subject to the same FDA regulatory requirements as, say, Tylenol. KuyaBriBri Talk 19:07, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions.  — KuyaBriBri Talk 19:28, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Strong keep This is a major brand of vitamins in the United States. According to the Wyeth web page, it is the top product in its category in the world (though that obviously isn't an independant source). Calathan (talk) 19:31, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Question: Should we invoke WP:IAR or WP:UCS in this case? KuyaBriBri Talk 19:36, 7 April 2009 (UTC) 19:38, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Strong keep - I was not the creator, but I rewrote the article. It was a nonsense page I found on new pages that I rewrote. I was surprised too to find it did not have an article already. The "drug" stub is not completely accurate--it's a vitamin/dietary supplement, so there is no FDA drug approval involved. It's a well known brand name of vitamins in the U.S. and it's produced by a major pharma company. I'm not at all surprised there are WP:RS. It's most definitely notable. Shadowjams (talk) 19:37, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep a search of Lexis-Nexis reveals 182 sources for "Centrum wyeth" and 440 for "Centrum vitamin". A lot of these are stories about lawsuits, studies and ad campaigns related to Centrum... relatively limited coverage on their own, but combined they'd be a pretty decent encyclopedia article, I think. There are claims like "Centrum Silver totally dominates vitamin sales among consumers 50-plus-representing about 20% of the overall $649.9 million vitamin category, according to analysts." which make me think there's notability and sources here... if someone wanted to dig them up (I don't, but I added one source just for the heck of it). --Chiliad22 (talk) 20:05, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep and expand-- notability is not an issue for this major brand, recommend a speedy keep.--J.Mundo (talk) 21:52, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep as per everyone but the nominator. Edward321 (talk) 23:23, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep remove the POV and expand. -Senseless!... says you, says me 02:27, 8 April 2009 (UTC)


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