Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pseudowallerian degeneration (2nd nomination)


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The result of the debate was Delete.--Adam (talk) 03:27, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Pseudowallerian degeneration
Delete. Term is not used in the scientific community or elsewhere. This is the second nomination for deletion of this article; the first one in May 2005 ended in a consensus of "keep", finding that "pseudowallerian degeneration" is a term used in neuroscience. Evidence presented at the time consisted of a single Medline abstract from 1976, translated from the French. It appears that the authors were describing an obscure phenomenon similar to but different from Wallerian degeneration and labeled it "pseudo-Wallerian degeneration" (just like one might call wikinfo a pseudo-Wikipedia, for instance) without the intent or result of creating a new technical term. No other Medline abstract has ever used the phrases "pseudowallerian degeneration" or "pseudo-wallerian degeneration" or "pseudo Wallerian degeneration". A fulltext search of 3 standard neuroscience text books at yields no hits for those terms. At the time of the first nomination, Google yielded zero hits for those terms; today there are some 150 hits, all traceable back to Wikipedia. A Google search restricted to .edu sites yields nothing: AxelBoldt 13:26, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per well-researched nomination. Sandstein 17:16, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. --Khoikhoi 23:25, 5 April 2006 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.