RationalWiki:Articles for deletion/Gold

Gold | Result: Keep

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Delete

 * 1) Article does not contain missional information, though this could change. 06:40, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

Keep

 * 1) Articles that are not missional per se but are supportive of RW's mission, e.g. science-related articles such as this, are acceptable to keep. We could actually use more articles on other elements. Bongolian (talk) 07:35, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
 * 2) It needs some cleanup but is certainly worth keeping. Cosmikdebris (talk) 17:01, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
 * 3) Needs more alchemy. Smerdis of Tlön, LOAD "*", 8, 1. 07:33, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
 * 4) What they said. Nerd (talk) 03:01, 11 February 2018 (UTC)
 * 5) Reads like a rather dull Wikipedia page, but with a little snark and a touch of goat (not to mention mentioning some of the nuttier woo attached to gold) it could go far. 03:13, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

Merge/redirect

 * 1) If this doesn't get seriously improved, just merge and redirect to Gold standard (economics). 22:09, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

Goat
Pretty pointless as it stands, but could easily be expanded with its use in, eg, economics woo, any health woo that might be out there, and Erich von Daniken's Gold of the Gods, probably his worst book. I stripped out the trivia to Fun:Gold. If we're going to keep this as a "science background" article (a part of RW I hate because "hey it's a science background article" is usually an excuse for people to write irrelevant stuff they happen to be interested in), let's make a proper job of it. Wilder Bicycle 22:23, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
 * On a side note: that felidae article needs more of a "cats are ecologically destructive demons that need to be exorcised from this society" slant too. P.S. I don't like dogs either. 19:52, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

Do we have information on the whole historical U.S. "gold versus silver" politics? If so, maybe we can sneak a section or so in this article. 19:54, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
 * exactly, there's the whole economic side that the article doesn't go into. goldbugs, for instance. And there's colloidal gold to cure alcoholism, apparently. BabyLuigi's suggestion of the Dumpster Dive is sounding like a good idea. Wilder Bicycle 15:53, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Maybe we could add this to the dumpster instead. 20:02, 17 January 2018 (UTC)