Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ergadenylic acid

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The result was Redirect to Adenosine monophosphate. Kesh 04:38, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ergadenylic acid

Ergadenylic acid (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

This article seems to be pseudoscience. "Ergadenylic acid" is an obscure term for adenosine monophosphate (AMP) [1], and cannot even be found at PubMed [2].

The entire text is meant to support the notion that AMP is a vitamin by disguising it as "ergadenylic acid". Not only is there a lack of citations to back this claim up, but AMP can be endogenously generated by a number of different mechanisms, as discussed in the article on adenosine monophosphate. This contradicts the notion that it is a vitamin.

For these reasons, I recommend deleting redirecting Ergadenylic acid. --Uthbrian (talk) 08:05, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

This discussion has been added as a test case to the proposed guideline Wikipedia:Notability (science). trialsanderrors 11:19, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

• Neutral. If this is a _genuine_ term for AMP, then I think turning it into a redirect would be better than deleting it. The issue of whether or not it's a vitamin is probably best decided on the main B Vitamins page. (Incidentally, the majority of Ghits for "vitamin B8" come up with Biotin, which is listed here as B7. Some sort of definitive reference for both (all three?) is undeniably needed). Tevildo 11:56, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
• redirect. The Biological Magnetic Resonance Data Bank link above gives the name as a synonym, so a redirect to adenosine monophosphate seems best. The author can go and argue that it's a vitamin there, if they want. Squiddy | (squirt ink?) 12:47, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
• Merge surgely to Inositol. The article itself describes it alternatively known as Inositol, not adenosine monophosphate. So suggest merge there if can verify any of uncited claims. David Ruben ^Talk 12:59, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
  • No, the status quo is that "Vitamin B8" is really AMP/Ergadenylic acid, but Inositol was formerly/erroneously labelled as B8. There are two separate issues to resolve elsewhere - (a) is AMP a vitamin? and (b) which compound is/was labelled "vitamin B8"? (Again, Google overwhelmingly suggests Biotin, with folic acid a distant second). But neither are at issue in this AfD. Tevildo 13:12, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
• Redirect to Adenosine monophosphate - Appears to be another term for AMP per link 1 in nom. -- Kesh 18:23, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
• Redirect to Adenosine monophosphate See Link TimVickers 21:52, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
• Also see the PubChem entry. This looks like a good place to invoke WP:SNOW, so I'm going to spedy redirect to adenosine monophosphate. – ClockworkSoul 22:05, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
  • As per the discussion, I change my vote to support redirect to adenosine monophosphate. Perhaps, vitamin B8 should be turned into a disambiguation page or redirected to B vitamins. --Uthbrian (talk) 04:20, 6 January 2007 (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.