[WikiEN-l] Reliable sources

[Ilmari Karonen]

geni wrote:
> 
> If I wrote an article about say cyanobiphenyls I would not view it as
> an unreasonable request to be asked to produce sources showing that
> they notable.

I don't think I've ever heard of an article about a chemical compound 
being deleted as non-notable, and I don't expect I ever will.  Yes, 
there are bazillions of organic compounds, but they really are all 
encyclopedic, if only someone takes the time to write something about them.

I suppose the exception to that would be compounds that no-one has ever 
written anything at all about, however briefly or speculatively, in any 
academic source.  But for such articles, a better reason for deletion 
would be that they must then, necessarily, be original research.

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Ilmari Karonen