Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/X-rays from lightning


 * 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   deleted by  per ANI discussion. (procedural close) &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  06:45, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

X-rays from lightning

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Article is filled with WP:OR and WP:SYNTH issues. Article creator has been indef blocked for repeated violations of these policies. References are tenuous at best and rarely if ever reference the text that they are supposed to. Trusilver 18:09, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete While there may be an article in this based on a Yahoo and Google search, this sounds more like an essay than an article. Blueboy96 18:44, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete per scorched-earth policy with respect to this editor's contributions. Bits of this article, at least, were copied from other Wikipedia articles without attribution.  But more worryingly, there is too much potential for copyright violations from elsewhere, and too much incoherent nonsense to make these articles (including the one under discussion) worth the community effort to rescue them.  See this ANI thread.   Sławomir Biały  (talk) 19:26, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm checking for copyvios now after reading the ANI thread--haven't found any blatant ones yet, or any derivatives. Depending on how many there are, I may change my vote to a speedy G12 and move that the author's indefblock be endorsed as a ban (if he isn't considered banned already). Blueboy96 19:55, 11 September 2011 (UTC)

Keep. After looking at the article, I do not see anything to justify deletion. It is sourced, interesting, and written about a legitimate subject. Whatever problems the creator of the article might have, this is not a reason for deletion. Biophys (talk) 00:26, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Agree with scorched-earth policy on this. Weird articles, mixed of OR and SYNTH and not worth the effort cleaning up. Articles can be recreated from scratch if there's a genuine topic there. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 06:17, 12 September 2011 (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.