Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rat excitation

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 was delete. east.718 at 08:44, February 1, 2008

[edit] Rat excitation

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"Rat excitation" is an admitted neologism with no reliable sources discussing it. The article states, "There was no official designation for this procedure so the appellation "rat excitation" was chosen so as not to conflict with the names of any extant articles." A Google search shows a few false hits (referring to various scientific experiments), a bunch of mirror sites, and one or two blog references that may have used this article as a source. There are no sources cited anywhere in the article, so it is unverifiable. The coining of the term "rat excitation" is clearly original research as well. It might be possible to write an encyclopedic article on rats as a form of torture, but this article doesn't really contain anything worth keeping. *** Crotalus *** 00:12, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

• Delete or rework and rename, in keeping with the arguments of the nominator. —SlamDiego_←T 00:31, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
• Delete unverifiable and original research, as outlined above. If an alternative article name is suggested, and sources are provided that are relevant, then I'd be inclined to change to keep. Lankiveil ^{(complaints | disco)} 02:59, 26 January 2008 (UTC).
• Delete This may be one of those instances where the author recalls reading this or hearing about it somewhere, but he/she can't remember where it was. However, if the only sources are George Orwell and 2 Fast 2 Furious, and you're not certain that it's recorded in the annals of history as a form of torture, it's deletable as unsourced. I was reminded today of the second Rambo movie where Rambo was tortured by bedsprings connected to an electrical source. Real, or something that seems like it could have been real? (and no, it's not called Rambo excitation) Mandsford (talk) 04:32, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
• Delete Rat excitation but Keep Rat torture I have moved the content to Rat torture and provided two cites. The redirected article Rat excitation could be deleted as I agree that this is a poor search term for this topic. Colonel Warden (talk) 18:43, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Comment: I endorse this response, though Rat torture may need more work. —SlamDiego_←T 05:36, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
• Delete Turns out it isn't Chinese, but Dutch (remember when Protestants and Catholics tortured each other? Good times, good times...), but as there is no source for the term "rat excitation", I have added this to the rat torture article. Unless the move constitutes a merge, in which case a redirect is required under the GFDL. --Dhartung | Talk 09:05, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

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