Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hallucinogenic mushroom

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 keep -- JHunterJ (talk) 12:41, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

Hallucinogenic mushroom

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This needs to be deleted. A hallucinogenic mushroom is just a mushroom containing hallucinogens. The two words do not have any special meaning when combined — Preceding unsigned comment added by Saberking321 (talk • contribs) 13:46, August 14, 2020 (UTC)

• Keep Discussion page was created without the {{afd2}} template. Fixed now. As for my own opinion, this appears to be a useful disambiguation page. Improvements could theoretically be made on how articles around the topic are organized, but deletion would be counterproductive. --Finngall ^talk 16:40, 14 August 2020 (UTC)

• Keep per Finngall, whilst it may be true that the words do not have any 'special meaning', if a user were to search using the the colloquialism, the disambiguation page would certainly be useful. I also note that the same page was marked for proposed deletion by Saberking exactly one week ago here [1] and was quickly reverted here [2]. Wampagranule (talk) 18:03, 14 August 2020 (UTC)

• Leaning keep – This is a very plausible search term, and as such useful to people visiting this website. I'm unsure if either of the listed mushrooms is the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. I suppose it would be possible to redirect this to Magic mushroom (disambiguation), but I'm inclined to think that would be getting it backwards (in other words, hallucinogenic mushroom should be one of the listed meanings of "magic mushrooms"). TompaDompa (talk) 18:29, 14 August 2020 (UTC)
  • Upon closer inspection, it turns out that Magic mushroom, Psychedelic mushroom, and 'shrooms (along with various other spellings, capitalizations, and plural/singular forms of those three terms) all redirect to Psilocybin mushroom. That would seem to suggest that Psilocybin mushroom is the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, but I'll also note that this has been disputed over at Talk:Magic mushroom#Ambibiguous term?. So maybe this should redirect to Psilocybin mushroom, or maybe those redirects should be to this page or Magic mushroom (disambiguation) instead. TompaDompa (talk) 18:44, 14 August 2020 (UTC)
• This feels like a broad concept rather than an ambiguous term. Perhaps a good solution is to redirect to Hallucinogen, which is a broad-concept article that includes discussion of various types of mushrooms. – wbm1058 (talk) 21:21, 15 August 2020 (UTC)

• I think a redirect to Magic mushroom (disambiguation) would be more appropriate, but Hallucinogen would also be fine. As User:Uanfala pointed out, Mushroom#Psychoactive mushrooms would be best.Saberking321 (talk) 19:07, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Disambiguations-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 01:27, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

• I don't see anything wrong with the page (yeah, it's not properly a dab page, so call it SIA or BCA). Retargeting to Magic mushroom (disambiguation) isn't a good idea as only one third of the entries there are for things that can be called "hallucinogenic mushrooms". If we're looking for an article target, then that would be Mushroom#Psychoactive mushrooms, which has all the content in one place (which is better than Hallucinogen where the few bits of relevant information are scattered throughout the article). – Uanfala (talk) 01:41, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

• Mushroom#Psychoactive mushrooms is the correct redirect, thank you! Saberking321 (talk) 19:06, 20 August 2020 (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.