Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Overlay assay

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete. ✗plicit 11:33, 4 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Overlay assay

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This has been an unsourced dicdef for 17 years - created by an IP in 2004. A PROD last year was reverted with "Google Books and Scholar searches find loads of sources. It just needs someone with more knowledge of the subject area than I have to add some", but no-one has come along to do so. Googling finds the term used in longer phrases such as "Protein Membrane Overlay Assay" but there is not an easily-found definition or basis for an article on OA as such. This stub does not seem to be an asset to the encyclopedia. PamD 07:57, 27 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Science and Medicine. PamD 07:57, 27 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete The term is used a lot, but I agree with nomination: I didn’t find any suitable secondary sources for an encyclopedia entry. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 14:33, 27 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete without prejudice against its recreation by someone who actually has something useful to say about the subject, and a few references to back it up. The current one-liner is too short to help our readers, and too short to save future editors any effort. Elemimele (talk) 21:54, 27 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.