Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Soot tags


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The result was delete. Star  Mississippi  18:38, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

Soot tags

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Non-notable; "sourced" to tweets and such Orange Mike  &#124;  Talk  16:06, 1 December 2021 (UTC)


 * Soot tags are a rather arcane phenomenon, quite eerie, and illustrative of aerosols. kencf0618 (talk) 16:18, 1 December 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete as not notable, a search finds no usable sources at all, just a small amount of dross on social media and that's it. Chiswick Chap (talk) 17:00, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Comment Found a few scientific articles that discuss this phenomenon (though under different names, usually "soot webs" or some variation thereof):
 * https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/019713600806113310
 * https://eaalab.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/10139/2021/04/Fire-analysis-methods-and-terminology-EAA-4-2-24-21-with-IG.pdf
 * https://lwlin.me.berkeley.edu/me118/papers/paper1_1.pdf
 * https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1002/jgrd.50321?__cf_chl_jschl_tk__=NkV3Rz03OuVKAdty7.u2HiZl7OMyf5RMjf.hE61Pt2Q-1638396536-0-gaNycGzNCOU
 * I'm not sure how usable any of these sources are, but I thought them worth bringing up, as it may or may not help to indicate notability.
 * My personal view here is that the subject is probably notable, but there seems to be a lack of naming conventions. It's possible we could use a tweet from a subject matter expert (per the WP:SPS caveat) to source the naming, but that would be a tough stretch for some editors, I think.
 * Yitz (talk) 22:21, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Well if they're known as something else, then that topic might (or might not) be notable, but "Soot tags" certainly isn't. Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:10, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗  plicit  23:51, 8 December 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete – fails the general notability guideline. Minkai ( rawr! )(see where I screwed up) 18:53, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete. Fails WP:SIGCOV.4meter4 (talk) 01:55, 16 December 2021 (UTC)


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