Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/White powder

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This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record.
The result of the debate was keep as a disambiguation page moink 01:40, 10 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] White powder

Summary to help with decision-making:

  • Delete 0
  • Keep 3 : Wahoofive, Mgm, Andrewa
  • Redirect 1: Firebug
  • Disambig 10: 8^D, Sjakkalle, N-Man, Radiant, Gmaxwell, Samaritan, Longhair, Barno, Carnildo, Yuckfoo

The consensus is clearly to make it a disambig page. I will remove the vfd tag and link the talk page here, but someone else will have to do the disambiguating. moink 01:40, 10 May 2005 (UTC)

From talk page: "this is completely rediculous page and should be removed immediately -george bush"

This nomination was never followed through and put here. I'm not sure this nomination was made in good faith, but I wasn't about to remove the tag. No vote. --Dmcdevit 01:07, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

  • Rick nominated it here on the 24th April. User:AkCapr removed the earlier vfd tags on the 25th April before the vote was finalised. JamesBurns 01:38, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
    • Aha! I should have checked the history, duh. I have reprduced the previous text below: (I can see it was obviously made in good faith now.) --Dmcdevit 01:46, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep if this vote is really necessary. —Wahoofive (talk) 01:42, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Who am I to meddle with a previous decision. Disambiguate and rewrite synthesis section on WDOM in it's new location. Mgm|(talk) 15:06, May 5, 2005 (UTC)


"Original research? Advocacy? I can only find two Google hits for "white powder" +Kutyavin, zero Google hits for "Alex Kutyavin" and three Google hits for "Alexander Kutyavin". RickK 23:28, Apr 24, 2005 (UTC)

Comment: Not sure if it should be deleted or not but I know that the term "white powder" is used in fireworks for a number of Potassium Chlorate oxidized materials.. which is what the article appears to be describing. --Gmaxwell 23:42, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Redirect to cocaine. Firebug 04:36, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Disambig. I disagree with Firebug's proposed redirect. In the post-9/11 world, "white powder" is often the stuff found in boxes or envelopes sent to someone's office to scare them into thinking that they've been attacked by terrorists using anthrax. I believe it's also a skier's reference to fresh snow. That's at least 4 legit meanings which a user might look up with this term, so perhaps a disambig is in order? -- 8^D gab 06:49, 2005 Apr 25 (UTC)
  • Disambig, concur with BD2412. Sjakkalle 07:24, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Disambig, common term. N-Mantalk 10:30, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Disambig, I can think of several 'white powders' (in fact a common chem lab assignment is taking six white powders and finding out which is which, although we didn't use cocaine at school :) ) Radiant_* 11:19, Apr 25, 2005 (UTC)
  • Move to Rocket candy and replace with disambig.--Gmaxwell 05:04, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)"
  • Keep, disambig if needed, maybe to white powder (gunpowder) or similar. Never heard of rocket candy, and my experience with the stuff is you can't get a rocket to lift with only sugar and pot nitrate as described, effective rocket fuel needs at least some chlorate, a far more dangerous and effective oxidant. I see the pros now use perchlorate instead. Andrewa 03:05, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Disambiguate per BD2412, Radiant et al. Samaritan 04:14, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Disambig -- Many uses. - Longhair | Talk 08:14, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
  • I see that the article has an "Other meanings" section, but since "white powder" as an alternative explosive/propellant to "black powder" is not the phrase's meaning most often seen in the press in recent years, I vote to disambiguate. Cocaine, anthrax, and unknown-suspected-contraband are all at least as common uses of "white powder" as this one. This article should be kept, but I don't think this meaning should redirect to rocket candy. Maybe rocket candy should redirect to White powder (propellant) or whatever title this article gets after disambiguation. Barno 14:49, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
    • Disclosure - I added the other meanings section on the theory that anyone who looks up "white powder" will more likely be thinking of one of those meanings - but that underscores the propriety of a disambig. -- BDAbramson thimk 22:13, 2005 May 6 (UTC)
  • Clean up, move to an appropriate title, and replace with a disambiguation page. --Carnildo 22:08, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
  • keep please but disambiguate it Yuckfoo 20:45, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
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