Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Maximon (particle)

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The result was delete. Tone 13:00, 13 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Maximon (particle)

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This article and its twin Minimon fail notability. It seems to be a pet theory of M.A. Markov that wasn't taken up by the scientific community. I went through the references in Maximon; Reference 1 is an article by Markov himself inside a collection. Reference 2 has two articles by other authors, but they simply quote Markov about his own work. I can't access Reference 3, but it seems to be the proceedings of a conference on astronautics. Reference 4 is in Russian, and Reference 5 is Markov's original article. In the Minimon article References 1 to 3 are all the same paper by Markov, and Reference 4 is the same article in Russian.

The original article only has 9 citations according to Google Scholar [1]. This is nothing in particle physics. Tercer (talk) 11:45, 6 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 11:56, 6 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete both Not every hypothetical particle needs an article, and these don't meet the wiki-notability bar. XOR'easter (talk) 04:20, 7 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete as per XOR'easter's comment. -Kj cheetham (talk) 08:38, 7 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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