Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Piracetamol


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The result was WP:SNOWballing this closed. --humblefool&reg; 04:46, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Piracetamol


It seems obvious to me that this article is a hoax, with the title being a play on paracetamol (acetaminophen). There are Google results for it, though, and I wasn't sure it fit into speedy or prod anyway. The Google results seem to be a few misspellings of paracetamol, and a few dozen Czech and Polish pages that I can't read but that seem to say that piracetamol is an alternate name for piracetam there... possibly, heh. Galaxiaad 02:15, 27 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Any drug that's used to "...induce and/or decrease the amount of thoughts of piracy going through a subjects head." for it's sheer strangeness, by the subject of, and hence should cite a load of, legitimate medical/scientific/other literature. 68.39.174.238 02:46, 27 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Speedy delete as WP:HOAX. CSD G1.  The idea of a drug that causes people to think about pirates is ludicrous.  --Hyperbole 03:03, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete per Hyperbole. Sr13 03:18, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment. Sorry, I'm not good at being clear.  I don't actually think it's a legitimate drug that induces thoughts of piracy... however, CSD G1 specifically excludes hoaxes, and this is definitely a hoax and not incoherent.  (Then again, I don't spend any time at AfD so maybe things like this are speedied anyway, and I just don't know.)  Also, I was wondering if it is a legitimate alternate name for piracetam... I just noticed in the history that it redirected to piracetam briefly.  Should it be a redirect? --Galaxiaad 03:39, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete as nonsensical hoax. So tagged. MER-C 03:54, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete as hoax, concur. In addition to indicia above, the two accounts that created the article have no other non-vandalistic edits, never a good sign. Newyorkbrad 04:32, 27 November 2006 (UTC)


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