Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Methanol outbreaks


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The result was   keep. (non-admin closure) DavidLeighEllis (talk) 00:53, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

Methanol outbreaks

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This is an indiscriminate list of methanol poisonings created by an editor who has recently shown to be disruptive in the topic of alcohol consumption. — Ryūlóng ( 琉竜 ) 14:04, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 15:59, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:00, 2 July 2014 (UTC)


 * Comment - The list could be made less indiscriminate by restricting the inclusion criteria to notable methanol poisonings, and rename to List of methanol poisonings rather than the term "outbreak" which seems inappropriate. There are 3 poisonings with articles in the list right now.  -- Whpq (talk) 15:56, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep Decently sourced; no unscientific claims. More of a list than an article, but there is value in it, perhaps under another name such as List of methanol poisoning incidents. --MelanieN (talk) 21:13, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
 * We have eight articles on incidents in the category at Category:Methanol epidemic poisonings, which would appear to be of equal intended scope to this list (the same editor created both, and the list was originally titled the same as the category). That seems to be enough for a list even if the consensus is that only incidents that merit articles should be listed. Contra the nom, I don't think the creator's recent conduct has any relevance here, as this list is nearly a year and a half old, and there's no argument presented here that this list is itself the product of disruption. postdlf (talk) 14:55, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
 * It all appears to be part of the original author's teetotalling agenda of just pulling crap from several unrelated articles to create some new article on the demons of alcohol consumption.— Ryūlóng ( 琉竜 ) 15:07, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Regardless of whether that motivated their interest in the subject, how did that irrevocably undermine this list? Aren't there in fact many documented incidents of mass methanol poising, including notable incidents on which we have articles? postdlf (talk) 17:59, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep&mdash;The single source used in the article probably isn't WP:RS (it's an application to include a particular drug on the WHO's list of essential drugs). It does contain multiple references to the primary literature, however, and I'm finding other sources like "Methanol Poisoning Exposures in the United States:  1993-1998" (L. E. Davis, Clinical Toxology, 40:4, 499–505).  The article needs a lot of work, but the topic does appear to be notable.  Lesser Cartographies (talk) 19:28, 6 July 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep - After a review of the category, I think this could be made into a viable list article. -- Whpq (talk) 19:32, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep - sourced, it is neither the weirdest nor the worst stub I've seen lately. Bearian (talk) 17:48, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
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