Template:Did you know nominations/bath salts (drug)

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Miyagawa (talk) 12:00, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

bath salts (drug) edit

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... that mephedrone, one of the drugs found in bath salts was first synthesised in the 1920s but only began to be abused in the last decade?

Reviewed: Review of Listerella paradoxa coming up shortly.

Done. SmartSE (talk) 16:28, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

Comment: Currently at AFD, but will almost certainly be kept.

Now closed as keep. SmartSE (talk) 16:28, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

Created/expanded by JunoBeach (talk), Smartse (talk). Nominated by Smartse (talk) at 10:55, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

New enough (actually started on 27 June rather than 28 June, but still within 5 days of nomination), long enough, thorough and neutral coverage. The referencing is adequate, although several refs do not have full information (author, date, publication or website), and they include Vice Magazine; however, there are also numerous reliable sources, both press/broadcasting and medical articles, and no point appears to be sourced only to that source. I checked several passages against sources looking for inaccuracy or overly close paraphrasing and found neither, although I have to assume good faith on the medical articles, where I can only see summaries. There is a sprinkling of "unreliable medical source?" templates in one part of the article. I don't know whether that's an impediment to the article's appearing at DYK but the issue should probably be addressed. The hook is problematic; I don't see it supported in the cited sources. I suggest:

ALT1 ... that so-called bath salts, a class of designer drug that became popular in the last decade, often contain mephedrone, which was first synthesised in the 1920s? or:

ALT2 ... that "bath salts" and "plant food" are misleading labels used on a type of designer drug that has become popular in the past decade? Yngvadottir (talk) 19:30, 5 July 2012 (UTC)

I edited the part of the article that contained those "unreliable medical source" templates. I removed some of the statements about effects of these drugs and revised others to (I hope) make it clear that these were reports by drug users and news media, not conclusions reached by medical researchers. After making those changes, I removed the templates, as the reader should now have a clear indication that the information reported is not medically authoritative.

One section of the article has a merge template (proposing to merge another article into this one); I don't think that template should prevent this from going to DYK on the main page.

The original hook is not fully supported, as the article and sources do not indicate when the drug first began to be abused. ALT1 and ALT2 check out (AGF on those parts of these hooks that are supported by sources I can't see). --Orlady (talk) 03:38, 22 July 2012 (UTC)