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The result was delete. Mark Arsten (talk) 03:00, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
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Wikipedia is not a dictionary. Furthermore, there is already a decent article on raw material as well as other types of material (see material (disambiguation)). Just "material" in general is far too broad of a subject for any single article to add anything other than a dictionary definition or information that is duplicated in other, more specific articles. I feel like a tourist (talk) 17:34, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Not much of any substance here. Best to move Material (disambiguation) into the soon-to-be vacant spot. Clarityfiend (talk) 01:14, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 03:34, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
- Delete Most of it is about raw materials which already have an article (although it's not a very good article, lacking references); it also mentions materials science which is included on the disambiguation page; much of the lead is dictionary definition stuff. Would be better if editors focused on improving raw material. --Colapeninsula (talk) 10:49, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
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