Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hydrogen triiodide

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The result of the debate was delete. – ABCD 01:23, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Hydrogen triiodide

The only piece of information in the article is not verified and there is no readily availible information on this substance (if it is actually spelled correctly).

• Delete? - Stoph 03:15, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• Keep for now. This article is of course highly rudimentary currently. However, a casual Google search shows this compound is real (if obscure) and probably merits an article. --Durin 03:21, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• Delete - the article creator meant nitrogen triiodide, which already has an article. Besides, hydrogen triiodide can't exist. DS 00:29, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• Delete - if it can't exist then we must delete! Although, I had a logic class once and we learned that thinking about something makes it exist, at least I think that's right. MicahMN | Talk 00:55, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • "for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." —Shakespeare, Hamlet
  • "Nothing happens unless first a dream." —Carl Sandburg
  • Even if you hould such a position, impossible objects would probably not be included. (Assuming it is an impossible compound, I'm not ruling on the chemistry).--Samuel J. Howard 03:18, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. It's a mistake. (By the way I thought it was ammonium triiodide the author was thinking of, so I learned something today. There is such a thing, it is a delicate explosive, but it's basically a form of nitrogen triiodide and I've added a redirect from ammonium triiodide accordingly). Googling does not give me the impression that it's a common mistake that would warrant a redirect. And unless I'm misinterpreting the Google results, they are not for "hydrogen triiodide" per se, they are for "lots-of-stuff-and-hydrogen triiodide." And this article is not about any of them and is not a useful start on any such article. So just delete. Dpbsmith (talk) 01:22, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Since hydrogen triiodide doesn't exist, it should not be a redirect. Dave the Red (talk) 03:07, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)

• Delete Wrong info. --Fuzzball! (talk) 04:40, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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