Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Actrapid

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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 redirect to insulin. I read the AFD discussion before looking at the article, and decided that it would depend if what was there was a stub or not. As it's a four line stub, I'll redirect it (without removing the history) - any information not already in insulin can be merged in by anyone. Proto ► 13:48, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Actrapid

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This article contains only a brief definition of the term in question, is unsourced, and could be considered only useful as an advertisement for a particular brand name of insulin, which may or may not still be in use. However, User:DragonflySixtyseven says the drug was apparently widely used in its day, and people apparently search for it on Google, so I would be willing to consider that it just needs to be rewritten. Carolfrog 01:47, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

  • Weak delete not sure how notable an insulin brand can be, even if it's more notable than other brands of insulin. ConDemTalk 02:48, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Redirect to insulin, unless it can be expanded significantly – Qxz 04:19, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Redirect to insulin as Qxz suggests GB 05:48, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep. I added a reference from the New Zealand Ministry of Health. You can see other references at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=14310202&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_DocSum I think enough has been written about Actrapid to make it notable, but as a layperson I don't think I can easily write an article explaining how it differs from other formulations of insulin. --Eastmain 06:43, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
    • In general, I think that any prescription drug will have been the subject of several articles in peer-reviewed journals and be notable on that basis. Even medications that are no longer in use are notable on the basis that they were notable once. --Eastmain 06:47, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
  • If the info in the sources can be used to expend the article, I would say keep, otherwise a redirect is appropriate. - Mgm|(talk) 12:43, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
  • I will accept the argument that all prescription drugs are notable; however, the brand names of those drugs don't necessarily need their own pages, unless they refer to a specific formulation of a drug that has no generic name. My feeling at the moment is that redirecting this page to insulin (much as Advil is redirected to ibuprofen) would be appropriate. I tried to figure out if there was a more specific type of insulin (for which a page might exist) that we could redirect it to, but I can't even figure out reliably what type of insulin Actrapid is. Carolfrog 20:13, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
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.