Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pestology


 * 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. The Bushranger One ping only 02:34, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

Pestology

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 * Delete. Dictionary definition that is only rarely used. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 04:48, 17 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000(talk) 13:21, 17 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  TheSpecialUser TSU 00:31, 24 August 2012 (UTC)


 * The tag on the article from 2010 had it better. This article isn't in fact true.  There was a "Pestology Centre" at Simon Fraser University, founded by Bryan Patrick Beirne, for a while, but its field of study was pest management (a subject that we don't have, but that has its own encyclopaedia published by CRC Press) and that's what it awarded degrees in.  There's a journal named Pestology in India, but that deals in pest management, too.  Of course, there are the obligatory exterminator companies and MySpace bands named this, as well.  I can find zero evidence of anything that doesn't use this as a proper noun, however.  There's no evidence to be found of a (common noun) concept of "pestology", as described or otherwise.  This is a novel and undocumented concept and a violation of our no original research policy.  Delete.  Uncle G (talk) 18:00, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
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