Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Marinol (Dronabinol)


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The result was   delete. Cirt (talk) 08:51, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

Marinol (Dronabinol)

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This article was created by a new user (this is his first contribution) under an incorrect name. Per pharmaceutical naming conventions, articles about medicines must be named with their International Nonproprietary Name, here that would be dronabinol. Dronabinol article existed some time ago (and was previously moved from Marinol), but then its merger with Tetrahydrocannabinol was discussed and the result was to merge because these are two names of the same substance; so at the moment of creation of the article, dronabinol was a redirect to tetrahydrocannabinol, and the latter article contains a section that describes the medicinal use of the synthetic substance in detail. So now this newly created article represents an accidental fork under an unsuitable name (no one will look for this information through this name, people would look either for a brand name Marinol or for INN Dronabinol, not both of them in this combination). I propose to delete this fork (not even a redirect is needed); if necessary and absent in the existing article, some information may be moved there (i.e. to Tetrahydrocannabinol). --Maxxicum (talk) 01:21, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions.  —Maxxicum (talk) 02:01, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. I concur. I cannot find any novel content that should be preserved, even as a redirect.Novangelis (talk) 06:43, 20 December 2009 (UTC)
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