Wikipedia:Notability (science)/Test cases

The purpose of this page is to gather evidence from ongoing discussions about how the community views scientific topics. It is not to influence the debate itself. This notability guideline is still a proposal and heavily edited, and criteria can change quickly in the course of a discussion. Currently all arguments on scientific topics should be derived from our core policies and the guideline on notability. Most cases of interest to this guideline are listed in the AfD category: science and technology.
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Findings and observations can be discussed at WT:SCI.

List of closed test cases

 * Articles for deletion/Sex and intelligence – kept
 * Articles for deletion/Ubiquitous computing – kept
 * Articles for deletion/Psychodiagnostic Chirology – deleted (OR)
 * Articles for deletion/Caesium perchlorate – kept
 * Articles for deletion/Advance Sowing – kept (references added)
 * Articles for deletion/Photon Structure – deleted (OR, incomprehensible)
 * Articles for deletion/Meyer-Palmen Solilunar Calendar – deleted (one of many non-notable calendars)
 * Articles for deletion/General Suppression Control Framework – deleted
 * Articles for deletion/Growing Earth Theory – kept (notable fringe theory)
 * Articles for deletion/Inductive symbol – deleted
 * Articles for deletion/Level of support for evolution – kept
 * Articles for deletion/Axial pen force – kept
 * Articles for deletion/Checking if a coin is fair – kept
 * Articles for deletion/List of asteroids/120901–121000 – kept
 * Articles for deletion/Multi-level cosmology – speedily deleted
 * Articles for deletion/Andromeda-Milky Way collision – kept
 * Articles for deletion/Mescher's method – deleted (WP:NFT)
 * Articles for deletion/The new york sociologist – deleted (too early)
 * Articles for deletion/Saber's Beads (2nd nomination) – deleted (vanity)
 * Articles for deletion/Emotional Freedom Techniques – kept (popular theory)
 * Articles for deletion/China as an emerging superpower (fourth nomination) – deleted (original research)
 * Articles for deletion/H-block – redirected to H engine
 * Articles for deletion/Socionomics – deleted (notability not established)
 * Articles for deletion/Eurolinguistics – no consensus (some academic usage)
 * Articles for deletion/Hybrid-electric bicycle – deleted (crystalballism)
 * Articles for deletion/List of pseudosciences and pseudoscientific concepts – speedily kept (unanimous)
 * Articles for deletion/Hectagon – no consensus
 * Articles for deletion/Future Map – deleted (insufficient outside sources)
 * Articles for deletion/Homosexuality and medical science – userfied
 * Articles for deletion/Ndoiskas Algorithm – deleted (WP:NFT)
 * Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shattered Consensus: The True State of Global Warming – deleted (non-notable book)
 * Articles for deletion/Euler prime – deleted (no established usage)
 * Articles for deletion/Zariski surface – kept (established concept, naming issues unresolved)
 * Articles for deletion/Basin Groups – no consensus (possibly superceded science)
 * Articles for deletion/Decemyriagon – deleted (not a useful standalone article)
 * Articles for deletion/Smarandache-Wellin number — no consensus
 * Articles for deletion/Conspicuous conservation – deleted (neologism)
 * Articles for deletion/Human territory – deleted (OR by synthesis)
 * Articles for deletion/Misunderstandings about evolution – kept (accused of non-neutrality)
 * Articles for deletion/Diobesity – deleted (single researcher's neologism)
 * Articles for deletion/Thermal optimum – kept (major rewrite of previously unsourced stub)
 * Articles for deletion/Ralph Juergens – deleted (non-notable non-mainstream scientist)
 * Articles for deletion/Stellar Repulsion Force – deleted (unverifiable non-mainstream science)
 * Articles for deletion/Functionality creep – redirected to Featuritis
 * Articles for deletion/Palaeos – kept (passed WP:WEB)
 * Articles for deletion/Harold Aspden – deleted (non-notable non-mainstream scientist)
 * Articles for deletion/Ergadenylic acid – redirected to Adenosine monophosphate
 * Articles for deletion/Electric universe (concept) – deleted (unverifiable non-mainstream science)
 * Articles for deletion/Menstruation and the origins of culture – no consensus
 * Articles for deletion/Sorce theory – deleted (unverifiable non-mainstream science)