Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Arsenious acid

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 of the debate was redirected to arsenous acid, because that's the correct spelling. DS 23:01, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Arsenious acid

Is this a real acid? If so, someone should make an article about it, or else it should be deleted or something coz it's just complete nonsense. XYaAsehShalomX 16:54, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

• It's definitely complete nonsense, and I congratulate you on being the first person today on AfD to correctly identify nonsense. Arsenious acid is a real acid, closely related to Arsenic acid – I've replaced the nonsense with a redirect. Hopefully someone who actually knows a little about chemistry can come along later and expand both Arsenious acid and Arsenic acid into useful articles. fuddlemark (fuddle me!) 17:06, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
  • If arsenious acid is not the same as arsenic acid, and it's not mentioned at the entry for arsenic acid, then it should not be redirected there. The stuff may exist but the entry was nonsense and was up for deletion as nonsense. You could vote to redirect but by just going ahead I suggest you have subverted the process somewhat, since the vote is now on a totally different (redirect) article. Flapdragon 20:08, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

Keep as redirected until an Arsenious acid article is forthcoming. 'Arsenious acid' is, as Mark says, closely related to 'Arsenic acid'; Arsenious acid, (H₃AsO₃) and Arsenic acid (H₃AsO₄) bear the same relationship to each other as sulphurous acid, (H₂SO₃) and sulphuric acid (H₂SO₄). These two have their own WP entries as Sulfurous acid and Sulfuric acid, as should Arsenious and Arsenic (pronouced "arsEEnic", as in "sulfUUric", not "ARSE-nic", by the way, any more than it's "SULfur-ic") acids. This may be of interest. Yes, the original article was total gibberish (I'm surprised it wasn't just tagged as {{nonsense}}), but as far as I'm aware there's no ban on rewriting an article (or as in this case redirecting it to something at least getting on for appropriate) while it's under consideration for AfD. This isn't "subverting", it's "improving", I'd hazard. Now all we need is an analogous article to the one on sulphurous acid Tonywalton  | Talk 23:02, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

• Keep, as above. Edwardian 06:39, 6 November 2005 (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.