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Hello Fabio, I notice that you had some interest in physics. Might I interest you in joining WikiProject Physics? I am Gaëtan BTW.Headbomb {^ταλκ_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 07:09, 1 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Gaëtan I am sorry of this really late reply. As a Wikipedia contributor I am a very sporadic one, as you can see. I put my name in the WP:PHYS project page. I'll try my best, consider that in the next couple of months I'll work at the thesis for my PhD, so I'll be (supposed to be) very busy.. :-) . BTW, your name sounds really familiar to me, since it is very popular in my hometown, Napoli. Cheers Oakwood (talk) 01:29, 7 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Appears to fail GNG, non notable book imo

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Hello, Oakwood

Thank you for creating Xerosydryle.

User:North8000, while examining this page as a part of our page curation process, had the following comments:

This new article (Xerosydryle)has a sundry of scientific material in it but from what I see only one source even mentions the term and a quick google search came up with nothing on the term. Am I right in deducing that the article represents trying to establish a new term? If so, Wikipedia would not be the place for such an effort. So if an article by that name were not to survive, is there a recognized topic for the material in the article?

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North8000 (talk) 20:19, 10 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@North8000:

Dear North8000, I have just read your message.

I understand your concerns, I will (quickly) collect more information to respond.

As a start, I can tell you that few articles have been submitted to few journals, and in those articles the name can be found. Those articles are in the review process, and should be published in the near future.

About a recognized name for the topic, there are different names, in different fields, I will collect more specific information asap. Oakwood (talk) 15:57, 15 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the response and ping. Please keep me posted. Sincerely, North8000 (talk) 16:45, 15 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The article Xerosydryle has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Per Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Chemistry#Request_for_advice_from_new_page_patroller: based on mirrors of a single source by Roberto Geremano et al. (2013) in a probably bogus journal (WATER); fails WP:NEO, as the content has not been picked up elsewhere; and the content is highly dubious.

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