Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of scientists active before age 20


 * 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   delete. -- Cirt (talk) 00:21, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

List of scientists active before age 20

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This list/article is incredibly poorly defined. It is very subjective (to be read wp:OR) what qualifies a person to get an entry here. The related article List of scientific publications by people under 20 years of age is at least verifiable to a certain degree because publication date is easy to check, as opposed to when the person did the experiment. Nergaal (talk) 02:32, 1 September 2010 (UTC) Nergaal (talk) 02:32, 1 September 2010 (UTC)  Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:04, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:45, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment. Might be salvageable if the criterion were changed to List of scientists who published papers before the age of 21 (I bumped it up a year to include such notables as Einstein and Heisenberg). Clarityfiend (talk) 00:28, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete I have taken the other list to AfD, too. This is pure original research: look up when an article was pubished, look up someones birth date, and calculate a completely arbitrary age cutoff. The same applies here. Are there any reliable sources discussing "people active as scientists before age xx"? Why 20? Why 21? Why not 20 years and 3 months? Arbitrary OR => delete. --Crusio (talk) 21:54, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Delete - as noted, arbitrary inclusion criteria and subject to OR. Are You The Cow Of Pain? (talk) 00:52, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete - Why 20 and what is "active"? Terrible unverifiable, arbitrary trivia accumulation... Carrite (talk) 02:47, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete -- notability not demonstrated in reliable secondary sources. Nearly every citation in the article is to a Primary Source and therefore depends on substantial original research and synthesis to support the assertions made in the article. N2e (talk) 05:01, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete Per nom and N2e. Really, there's no need for a list of active scientists of some specific age. DARTH SIDIOUS 2 (Contact) 15:41, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete - completely random list, and can not possibly even approach completeness. Every Bronx High School of Science alumnus would qualify for this list, me included. Bearian (talk) 00:54, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
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