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Science
[edit]- X-ray spectroscopy (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Badly sourced page created many years ago by non-experts. It is a WP:Coatrack of topics which are covered much better in other articles that have been written and maintained by topic experts. I would merge the history elsewhere (perhaps), beyond that I don't think much else is worth saving. I would just redirect to X-ray scattering and adjust the template used. Ldm1954 (talk) 22:20, 23 November 2025 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Science, Chemistry, and Physics. Ldm1954 (talk) 22:20, 23 November 2025 (UTC)
Comment, I did not want to bloat the nom. This is within my core competence, although more as teaching the basics to BS/PhD students. The detection of x-rays in electron microscopes is a big topic, and we have many articles on aspects of this. There are also some articles on x-ray emission which is another standard technique. The short sections on detectors is very, very weak, and many others are deficient as well. I contemplated WP:BEBOLD and just blank/redirect, but decided to start a discussion. A weak alternative to redirect would be to truncation to just a type of disambiguation page. I strongly believe the term is not the right one to keep, even though you can find it if you do a search -- more common usage is the different terms in the coats (on the rack).Ldm1954 (talk)
- Keep but replace the "coatrack" with a short list article such as the version on German Wikipedia. We need a top-level article on the topic, just as we have on Spectroscopy, much of which is a list article. Something useful needs to come up for a search on the topic. The alternative would be a disambiguation page, but a list article provides more information for inexperienced readers. I come from a field that does X-ray spectroscopy in the classic sense, using a grating to disperse them like a prism, and uses this term to describe it. StarryGrandma (talk) 06:31, 25 November 2025 (UTC)
- Keep per StarryGrandma. I like the idea of converting the page to a disambiguation or "short list" as in the German article as well. The term is commonly (mis)used enough that an article of some type is needed, even if the article we now have isn't very good. WeirdNAnnoyed (talk) 11:28, 25 November 2025 (UTC)
Science Proposed deletions
[edit]- Flow arrangement (via WP:PROD on 17 January 2025)
- Reiner Kümmel (via WP:PROD on 16 January 2025)
- Measure (physics) (via WP:PROD on 7 December 2024)
- Evolution equations in high-energy particle physics (via WP:PROD on 4 December 2024)