Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Panoxyl


 * 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 of the debate was delete. -R. fiend 19:01, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

Panoxyl
I've tried tagging it as a medical stub (which apparently doesn't work the way I tried). I'm listing this in the hope of getting some clear community opinions about whether this is a overly general dicdef or not, so please don't flame me for it. Abstain. - Mgm|(talk) 11:23, 20 September 2005 (UTC)


 * Delete It's just one of many brands, which use the same medicinal ingredient, benzoyl peroxide, which already has an article. So, I don't see anything special.  I wouldn't call this a dicdef, but it's just not notable.  I wouldn't do a a re-direct, since it's got other ingredients, and isn't literally the same thing; I suppose they can always change what they put in it.    --rob 14:11, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
 * I would redirect as the other ingredients are coincidental to this product. The delivery medium can be an aqueous gel, an aqueous alcoholic basis, detergent wash etc., with 2.5-10% benzoyl peroxide, but the active ingredient remains the same and Stiefel's brand name is retained in all cases (which, "correctly" capitalised, is PanOxyl)  (source: British National Formulary). Sliggy 15:08, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
 * (that's redirect to benzoyl peroxide, just to be explicit) Sliggy 15:51, 20 September 2005 (UTC)


 * rob's link below shows that Stiefel sells a (presumably over-the-counter) product under the PanOxyl brand that does not have benzoyl peroxide as the active ingredient. So my vote is now delete; thanks for the information. Sliggy 16:54, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
 * redir Rich Farmbrough
 * Delete only, I hate ambiguous redirects. -- Kjkolb 00:32, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect if and only if the target is the sole active ingredient (not necessarily the sole ingredient, which is rarely the case) as meant in the pharmaceutical industry. -- MCB 00:48, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Reply: According to this this "Clear Acting Cleaning Gel" (one of six formulations of Panoxyl) has  salicylic acid and triclosan, but no benzoyl peroxide.  --rob 03:30, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Ah. That makes redirection problematic, so then delete. MCB 19:39, 21 September 2005 (UTC)


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