Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/3,4-Methano-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinoline-3-carboxylic acid

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The result of the debate was delete. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 22:45, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] 3,4-Methano-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinoline-3-carboxylic acid

This article was tagged by Kerowyn for deletion on 3 May but the page was apparently never posted on the VfD page. Completing the nomination. No vote. Rossami (talk) 04:09, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

  • Delete : Unless this substance has a particular importance in chemistry or biology, this info is unneccessary on Wikipedia. --Kerowyn 06:32, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Weak Delete: quinoline and isoquinoline are proper and interesting chemicals. This compound is one of their variaties, but I wonder whether IUPAC nomenclature was used for the naming, though. I'm not familiar enough with isoquinolines to recognize this one as particularly relevant. Wim van Dorst 15:21, 2005 May 3 (UTC).
  • Delete: Not notable Fuelbottle | Talk 16:14, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete: This is a specialized constrained phenylalanine mimic which was first synthesized in 2000. It's not noteworthy, and should be deleted. (Also consider the fact that the creator (User:Fuelbottle) of this article suggests we delete it.) ~K 19:40, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete: Practically an infinite variety of different chemical compounds can be made by putting some extra groups on some skeleton structure, but the majority of them will not be worthy of an article in a general all-around encyclopedia like Wikipedia. I did a web search on this compound name and found only 24 matches, most of them being mirrors of the subject Wikipedia article or duplicates of two technical articles on this compound. The abstracts of neither one mentions any use, application, or general relevance. I conclude the compound is not notable. Nor do I consider this compound a fundamental building block or skeleton structure like (for example) quinoline, isoquinoline, or the triazines (which I plan to write something about), which are skeleton structures for various herbicides on which their chemical names are based on.
    H Padleckas 08:22, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete: Not notable either as a compound or as an article. Physchim62 20:33, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete: I have studied A-Level Chemistry for the past two years and have never come across this compound. This article doesn't really serve much purpose. I Hunter 07:53, 8 May 2005
  • Delete as anyone who has taken chemistry should know, there are very many isomers of organic compounds, and it would be almost impossible to record them all, unless someone were to make a List of Organic Compounds. Else, delete.Sensation002 23:34, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
    • Comment: it's 'list of organic compounds'. Organic compound isn't a proper name. ;-) Wipe 18:36, 12 May 2005 (UTC)
    • Further comment: there are millions of known compounds and probably an infinite number of possible ones, so only a fraction of them are worth mentioning in an encyclopedia. Wipe
      • What fraction of the infinite number were you thinking would be worth mentioning? Half? ☺ Uncle G 13:44, 2005 May 18 (UTC)
    • See the third definition on Wiktionary:Fraction ("a tiny part"). BTW, half of infinity is infinity. Wipe 17:43, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
      • I know. That was my very point. Uncle G 00:32, 2005 May 23 (UTC)
      • Better stick to a tiny proportion then. Kappa 23:57, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
  • It's a non-proteinogenic amino acid? Big deal - as H Padleckas points out, there's a near-infinite number of such. It could, at some point in the future, turn out to be notable, but then, so could any of the myriad personal vanity pages we regularly delete every day. Should this eventually turn out to be notable, then the page will get recreated - just like for a person. DS 12:42, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Deletebiochem cruft. Klonimus 03:16, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. Non-notable compound. Jayjg (talk) 18:38, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete if the content of this article cannot be included somewhere else appropriately. Enochlau 02:11, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
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