Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tetraneutronium

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The result of the debate was redirect to tetraneutron. -- BD2412 ^talk 19:22, July 18, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Tetraneutronium

Only 2 Google hits, probable hoax as neutrons do not bond together. Created by the Stop Drinking Soda vandal, in any event. Delete. Jersyko talk July 8, 2005 01:27 (UTC)

• Delete: Seems like a prank. If not a prank, then a profoundly wishful bit of non-physics. Geogre 8 July 2005 02:23 (UTC)
• Very weak delete. This is a bit of personal OR pseudo-science. This points to a New Scientist article that played with the idea (you can get a free 7 day login if you're really keen; I didn't bother). What's the feelings about pseudo-science which is apparently drawn from a single source but that got an article in a 'proper' magazine (though not in an archival journal)? -Splash 8 July 2005 02:35 (UTC)
• Keep if the stated theory is supported by a reliable source. The original author of the article must have had such a source in mind when posting the article. If this optimistic confidence is unfounded, delete. -EDM 8 July 2005 02:35 (UTC)

Do bear in mind, per the nomination, that it was created by a known vandal, even while assuming WP:FAITH. -Splash 8 July 2005 02:44 (UTC)

• delete as unverifiable, since there are only 2 hits for this on google and it was created by a known vandal. Vote subject to change without prejudice given a citation. Brighterorange 8 July 2005 03:56 (UTC)
• REDIRECT to neutronium, as chemical elements depend on the number of protons it has, tetraneutronium consisting solely of a tetraneutron nucleus, is obviously *not* a chemical element, but an isotope of element 0, neutronium. Alternately, redirect to tetraneutron. 67.68.67.71 8 July 2005 07:04 (UTC)
• Delete, it's not OUR job to dig up cites for highly dubious, one-sentence-long articles that lack any. Dcarrano July 8, 2005 07:57 (UTC)
• Delete hoax unless proven other way.-Poli 2005 July 8 15:45 (UTC)
• Keep - Notable because stability calculatins suggest that it would be a stable form of neutronium, that makes it VERY special. 24.19.27.32 8 July 2005 16:55 (UTC)

Can you include either the calculations or a reference to them in the article? -Splash 8 July 2005 17:26 (UTC)

• Redirect to tetraneutron - It looks like this either an alternate name or possibly just a made up name. This forum makes it sound made up, but the wooden periodic table link above makes it seem to be at least a common misconstruction of the name. - Marvin01 | talk 8 July 2005 17:51 (UTC)
  • Comment I agree with this summary. - Jersyko talk July 8, 2005 21:03 (UTC) (nominator)
• Redirect to tetraneutron --Carnildo 8 July 2005 22:41 (UTC)
• Redirect as above, neutronium itself is science fiction, not accepted science, but that at least deserves its own article. This doesn't. --Etacar11 8 July 2005 23:02 (UTC)
• Redirect to tetraneutron. It's verifiable as a highly speculative bit of theoretical nuclear physics that experimenters have attempted to verify.Gorringe TP, Ahmad S, Armstrong DS, Burnham RA, Hasinoff MD, Larabee AJ, Waltham CE, Azuelos G, Macdonald JA, Poutissou JM, Blecher M, Wright DH, Depommier P, Poutissou R, Clifford ET. Search for the tetraneutron using the reaction 4He( pi -, pi +)4n. Phys Rev C Nucl Phys. 1989 Nov;40(5):2390-2393 No abstract available, alas. The name tetraneutronium is a neologism with no status with IUPAC and no entries in PubMed. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 19:41, 9 July 2005 (UTC)
• Delete William M. Connolley 22:03:16, 2005-07-09 (UTC). Neologism.
• Redirect to tetraneutron RoySmith 22:34, 9 July 2005 (UTC)
• Redirect to tetraneutron, and note that the creator has also added text referencing tetraneutronium to neutronium. -- Jonel | Speak 02:40, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
• delete neologism Salsb 02:59, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
• Redirect to tetraneutron. ‣ᓛᖁᑐ 05:30, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

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