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Enlil (heliospheric model)

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Page that was previously WP:BLAR as a redirect to Heliosphere#Structure on March 23rd. This was reverted on April 1st. The editor who redirected and the redirect editor opened a discussion on the talk page, but minimal input from involved editors there. Page currently has tags for AI and notability. Rather than leaving this hanging around much longer I am sending it to AfD for a wider discussion. Note: I am not voting as I do not know this science. Ldm1954 (talk) 22:16, 25 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Courtesy pings of involved editors @CoronalMassAffection, Revolving Doormat, Mykhal, and 0xReflektor: Ldm1954 (talk) 22:20, 25 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Bashorun Olalekan

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Fails WP:NPROF. 🄻 🄰 17:00, 25 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Comment, this is a very poor page, with some errors including when he was Provost. Embarrassingly, Grokopedia is way better, despite not being RS. I see no pass of WP:NPROF, but there are enough references in the Grokopedia article which are "real", not hallucinations, that he might pass WP:GNG. I am not going to vote yet, and might never.Ldm1954 (talk) 17:18, 25 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Notopalaeognathae

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I propose merging Notopalaeognathae and Novaeratitae to Palaeognathae because there's simply not much to say about these clades (they are entirely based on genetic analysis, so nothing to say about morphological similarities) separately from Palaeognathae to warrant standalone articles. Paleognaths are a small enough group of birds that these articles are not necessary. Hemiauchenia (talk) 23:25, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Merge These can be covered in the main article perfectly well without duplication. Reywas92^Talk 00:16, 23 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Stem tetrapoda

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I propose merging to Tetrapodomorpha because the scope of these articles is duplicative, and there's no real reason for them to be separate. Hemiauchenia (talk) 20:52, 21 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Support merge, per nomination. -SlvrHwk (talk) 22:11, 21 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Merge per nom. --cyclopia ^speak! 09:28, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Merge, this seems a rather clear cut case. Petter Bøckman (talk) 10:37, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

List of science centers

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I propose merging to List of science museums because there is not any inherent difference between Science museums and Science museum#Science centres beyond branding or style and there is considerable overlap between these lists. Reywas92^Talk 19:06, 21 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Merge per nom as in a quick check they are all museums (Delete any that are not.)Ldm1954 (talk) 19:37, 21 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Merge per nominator's rationale. FaviFake (talk) 21:04, 21 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Merge per the nominator's case, much easier for the reader too. Star Mississippi 01:05, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Merge (hit edit conflict): Agree with Nom's assessment, and other's "Merge" rationale. -- Otr500 (talk) 01:08, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to List of science museums. Not a big difference between the two. Chronos.Zx (talk) 06:02, 23 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Science tourism

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Largely unencyclopedic article, pretty clear case of WP:NOTDB. Seems like something that should be on wikivoyage. OrbitalVoid49 (talk) 20:29, 20 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete, this seems to run afoul of WP:NOTTRAVEL, being something like a list of suggested science-related tourist spots, rather than an article about "science tourism" itself. I don't see anything salvageable here. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 22:09, 20 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Delete without prejudice to recreation. Damn, as someone who enjoys science tourism and these kinds of sites, I was hoping this would be a good page that would be a valid navigational list, but it's really bad. The first section is a random selection from List of science museums that doesn't add much, and then I had to delete the list of US national labs since although several technically have limited tours, none are actually tourist destinations nor was there context about such. Not all of the observatories listed are actually able to be regularly visted by the public, and it's otherwise very incomplete. The Universities section is incredibly generic and pointless, and the "Other" is embarassingly useless by not even saying where these random selections of things are! But LOL about the nomination statement, after writing this I looked at the edit history and the page was literally copied from https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Science_tourism in 2018; this doesn't belong here. Reywas92^Talk 04:13, 21 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Comment The news media does use the phrase "science tourism" https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/charlotte/news/2024/08/12/north-carolina-science-trail-science-tourism- https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20241021-are-you-really-helping-when-you-join-an-expedition-tour https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/28/travel/science-tourism-cern-fermilab.html however this isn't an article like Space tourism, just a pointless list since every science museum, research facility, or trip could be put on it . Dream Focus 07:42, 21 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
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Redirect to List of science museums. There is probably space for an article on this topic, but so far this is not it, and it is better to be redirected until a real article is done. --cyclopia ^speak! 10:24, 21 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
I'd specifically oppose this. There's no information about science tourism at the destination, so it's a misleading redirect. Someone searching for this would presumably (and should) be expecting some sort of encyclopedic information about the topic, but that's not present at the proposed target. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 13:55, 21 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I think Science museum would be a better redirect target, and it could include a bit about visitor centers or tours of other sites that aren't strictly museums. — Reywas92^Talk 19:09, 21 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to List of science museums and allow recreation if a fair article can be created. Shankargb (talk) 16:05, 21 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Soft redirect as {{wikivoyage redirect}} and merge (if necessary) to Wikivoyage:Science tourism until such a time that sources are collected or exist that allow a more enyclopedic article. Seems to cover all the concerns presented. — Godsy^(TALK_CONT) 05:22, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

FISEC

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Doing a cursory search on the internet, this appears to lack any form of significance that would qualify it under the WP:GNG. Additionally, this article merely covers a timeline and the group objectives, failing to show any notability throughout. A person of sorts (talk) 02:33, 14 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete I found a 1992 paper, but since that has zero cites it indicates minimal to no attention by the community. Hence a very clear delete. Ldm1954 (talk) 08:43, 14 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to European Federation of Food Science and Technology. FISEC was that federation's student council, so the title is a plausible search term. The 1992 source above is a short item in Food Control of uncertain independence, not significant independent coverage, and nothing else found meets WP:NORG. A short sourced line at the target would help, so the redirect points to content that actually names it. EmilyR34 (talk) 05:07, 21 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Science & Theology News

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Newspaper isn't notable. Article lacks sources. Could be merged with Karl W. Giberson. Nothing turned up on Google about this paper. Eric Schucht (talk) 18:26, 10 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Was a WP:BEFORE done of offline sources? Because given the era this one was issued in I don't think sources would show up on Google. I am getting a lot of hits for this in a search of some databases but I don't have time to sort through them right now. PARAKANYAA (talk) 18:30, 10 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@PARAKANYAA: No a WP:BEFORE was not done. Look at the rapid number of AFD nominations in minutes of one another. Additionally, "nothing comes up in google" is claimed, but then when I google "stuff comes up" on many of these. Clearly the searches being done if done at all are not done competently.4meter4 (talk) 16:46, 15 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to Templeton Foundation#Templeton Press for now. There is some independent coverage, and it might be possible to have a standalone page. At the very least we can cover it in a subsection of the organization that publishes it. The book McLaren, Robert Bruce (2008). Religious Foundations for Global Ethics. Pearson Prentice Hall. p. 216. ISBN 9780131484726. states it is one of the more significant activities of this non-profit, so it makes sense to cover it there.4meter4 (talk) 16:57, 15 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Further supports for the merger....?
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Merger works for me. I support it! Eric Schucht (talk) 05:08, 25 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Merge (and a redirect) to Templeton Foundation#Templeton Press as suggested by 4meter4 - not able to find much coverage for standalone article. Asteramellus (talk) 22:09, 25 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Science Proposed deletions

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)

Science Miscellany for deletion

Science Redirects for discussion

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