Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Potassium heptasulfate


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The result was   delete. WP:SNOW. Tim Song (talk) 07:48, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

Potassium heptasulfate

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Blatant hoax. All of these "chemicals" result in 0 G-hits. There is no heptasulfate, etc. anion. This nomination also includes the following, all by the same author: shoy (reactions) 16:33, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
 * 1) Potassium hendecasulfate
 * 2) Potassium decasulfate
 * 3) Potassium nonosulfate
 * 4) Potassium octosulfate
 * Speedy delete. As per nom. &amp;dorno rocks. (talk) 16:40, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete Googling "heptasulfate" gave LOTS of hits - but they were almost all saccharide polysulfates, especially sucrose heptasulfate. One gave a diagram, fortunately, so it was clear that the sulfate groups were connected individually to the sucrose, not to each other.  And they were specifically Sulfate groups, so it was Sucrose + S$x$O$4x$, not like the formulas given in the articles referenced here David V Houston (talk) 17:05, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete all Can't find any hits other than the saccharide polysulfates mentioned above. No Google hits on <"Walter Kaminsky" "Polysulfate Potassium Salts">, which is the sole reference given. Lots of Google scholar hits on "Walter Kaminsky", but couldn't see anything to support this. (Walter Kaminsky is only a stub). It certainly quacks like a hoax to me -- Boing!   said Zebedee  18:42, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete all - original research, if not a hoax, and can not be verified. It sounds strange. (I took 18 college credits in chemistry and went to The  Bronx High School of Science.) Bearian (talk) 22:54, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
 * P.S. Potassium monosulfate, bisulfate, trisulfate, and thiosulfate all exist, but these others nominated above have not been idendified in legitimate sources. Bearian (talk) 22:58, 15 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete all - I have declined the speedy as I do not think this is quite blatant enough for G3, but such complex molecules with only K, S and O seem extremely unlikely. I have posted at WikiProject Chemistry for expert opinion. I note from his talk page that the author of these has had articles deleted as hoaxes before. JohnCD (talk) 06:48, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete all no sources, possible hoaxes. Also placed AfD and hoax templates on the other articles. If not hoaxes, then it still fails WP:RS. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 07:08, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions.  —Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 07:16, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete all - Nonsense. Almost certainly a hoax. Two of them have an odd number of potassium atoms which means the anions have an odd number of electrons which is almost certain to be wrong. They certainly would not dissolve in water without reacting. I suggest a speedy close as delete. -- Bduke   (Discussion)  07:30, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
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