Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Earth Metabolic Design Laboratories


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The result was   merge. Keeper   76  20:43, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Earth Metabolic Design Laboratories

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Declined speedy deletion, but I'm not convinced this group passes notability. Three Google scholar hits don't seem to quite do it. Dloh cierekim  02:43, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

I disagree. This organization played a key role in the DEA scheduling hearings for MDMA. They were the actual organization that requested the hearings. The organization conducted the first real human study of MDMA and the first chronic animal toxicity study. The notability of the founders and their subsequent activity is also considerable. For example: http://books.google.com/books?id=Ec5hNgYWHtkC&pg=RA1-PA38&lpg=RA1-PA38&dq=deborah+harlow+mdma&source=web&ots=BrJ02b1taf&sig=mIoEdASvmjOoBgJuBlHfjBXlOYA&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result

The organization has fewer references than it should because most of its activity is incorrectly atributed to MAPS, which didn't exist until years later.--TheRealRealFester (talk) 02:50, 3 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Merge to Rick Doblin. This article is very short, as is that one. The two articles are interrelated enough that combining would allow a way for the article to naturally grow more than it would as two separate ones. —C.Fred (talk) 04:27, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Mr.Z-man 20:38, 7 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions.   --  brew  crewer  (yada, yada) 22:40, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions.   --  brew  crewer  (yada, yada) 22:41, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. Maximally a merge candidate. JFW | T@lk  19:57, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep, seems to meet the general notability guideline. Merging with Rick Doblin's article is also a fine option. Stifle (talk) 08:35, 12 September 2008 (UTC)


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