Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Intracellular

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 Glossary of biology#I. Sandstein 11:25, 16 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Intracellular

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As per WP:NAD, this is not an encyclopedic article. "Each article in an encyclopedia is about a person, a people, a concept, a place, an event, a thing, etc., whereas a dictionary entry is primarily about a word, an idiom, or a term and its meanings, usage and history." Tkondrashov (talk) 01:10, 8 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - I don't see how this could ever be expanded beyond a dictionary definition. --Prosperosity (talk) 04:15, 8 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 07:38, 8 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Glossary_of_biology#I, where it is defined. Adjectives don't make for good articles, but pointing the reader to the definition in a glossary is a good outcome for what is surely a plausible search term. --{{u|Mark viking}} {Talk} 07:51, 12 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose but support renaming to intracellular environment - the article should be updated to be a biophysical perspective which remains important. Emerging findings in the field of phase separation suggest that this couldn't be adequately explained in different articles. There are fundamental biophysical implications of intracellular as opposed to extracellular and this article can be a jumping point given the changing topology I would have agreed with you a few years ago but I don't think the present state of science agreed with you. PainProf (talk) 13:38, 12 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sources: https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev-biophys-121219-081629,https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-019-0341-6 phase separation between intracellular compartments, maybe a more accurate title would be the intracellular environment which is what I think this article is about. The article could reflect these properties and others including the concepts of membraneless organelles, local heterogeneity (calcium spikes, pH gradients) These aren't particularly well explained by cytosol which refers to the liquid content, the cytoplasm which excludes the nucleus which is the nucleoplasm. PainProf (talk) 16:34, 12 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete or Redirect It is dictionary definitions, spun up to be an article. Redirect would be ideal. scope_creep^Talk 08:38, 16 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Glossary_of_biology#I per Mark viking's suggestion as a valid search term. Hzh (talk) 11:13, 16 June 2020 (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.