Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Priming (science)

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The result was delete. ✗plicit 10:14, 20 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Priming (science)

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Article has been unsourced since 2006. Notability of topic is in question. Coin945 (talk) 05:27, 13 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. Coin945 (talk) 05:27, 13 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Leaving aside the issue of sourcing, this is a little chat about a word, in unencyclopedic voice. The word does not appear in a handy Oxford reference ("Dictionary of Science"), and it is not clear that this is really a generally defined process. Imaginatorium (talk) 06:22, 13 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- I suspect that you'll find it under "washing", if they bothered to put it in at all, because it's only borderline jargon. This was a good-faith attempt to handle Special:Diff/86373698 during an article split of priming. Uncle G (talk) 11:12, 13 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Delete or Rename This either needs to be deleted, or renamed and rewritten under "Washing" if that is the term used in reliable sources. The article also needs reliable sources. Even then, I could see this being merged into a broader article on laboratory processes, chemistry, or organic chemistry. Finally, Wikipedia is not a How-To manual, so I'm not entirely sure as to the point of this article. I mean, "be careful, water isn't always the proper solvent to clean your equipment" is not really something that deserves an article. But I will concede that the problem here might be that this is just such a poorly-written article that the relevance and notability is unclear. Hyperion35 (talk) 17:24, 13 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Wikipedia is an encyclopedia not a dictionary.John Pack Lambert (talk) 19:52, 13 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. It seems like this article was created by being split off from a larger article by someone unfamiliar with the field (it would be Priming (chemistry), for one). This is a thing which is done sometimes, but I've never heard it called "priming" and a brief literature search suggests that it is not referred to as this by anyone else, either. Looking at the main article for Washing -- boy, that's a pile if I've ever seen one -- it would probably work better there, or nowhere at all (since there aren't any sources I could find for this). jp×g 01:21, 15 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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