Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Monoatomic gold


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The result was   delete. J04n(talk page) 11:48, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Monoatomic gold

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This seems to be an irredeemable conflation of several topics. One is the fact that ordinary atoms of elements such as gold can be arranged in very narrow structures (chains or wires); this is interesting but does not imply the existence of "monoatomic gold". Another is that in some contexts single atoms of gold may be encountered, especially as ions. The last is the idea that there is a magic form of gold produced by alchemy that has unlikely properties. This article does have many references, but they either refer to the first two meanings (sometimes simply in bibliographies) that do not merit an article, or are not reliable.

This article has been deleted in the past, but as a stub. A proposed deletion was declined. It also seems like a backdoor way to rescue the recently deleted article on the alchemist in question. Bovlb (talk) 20:51, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I should probably mention that this article was previously a redirect to Gold. Bovlb (talk) 20:54, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

*Keep This form of gold is very important for the development of extremely advanced computer architecture and and energy containment fields. Goldfringer ( talk ) 02:03, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete - Sources about monoatomic gold -which are mainly about aliens or the "secret" meanings of ancient scriptures- are not even close to being reliable and some might very well be hoaxes, thus it fails WP:GNG. Even the publications which expose these types of pseudo-scientific things did not find the subject notable enough to publish an article about it. For the scientific term, there are eight book sources currently cited in the article but they mention monoatomic gold chain, wire or nanowire even less than a handful of times. There are some academic papers published on reliable journals on monoatomic gold chain, wire or nanowire, but the information can be merged to Monoatomic and/or Molecular wire. Nimuaq (talk) 22:17, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
 * delete - made up nonsense William M. Connolley (talk) 19:03, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete - it's not even wrong; it even fails WP:FRINGE. Bearian (talk) 00:33, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:47, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Technology-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:47, 12 February 2013 (UTC)


 * Delete as per Bearian. Xxanthippe (talk) 02:36, 12 February 2013 (UTC).
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