Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ubi spring

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 delete. MBisanz ^talk 00:50, 2 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ubi spring[edit]

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Suspicious article. I searched for evidence that this plant actually exists, and can not find any. Antrocent (♫♬) 14:49, 25 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Can't find evidence of its existence either, and the medical claims are very suspicious. /wia /tlk /cntrb 15:40, 25 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. — Sanskari ^Hangout 16:21, 25 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. — Sanskari ^Hangout 16:21, 25 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: as obvious hoax. ubi is Malay/Indonesian for yam; the SPA that created this is called "Springyam", so knows what ubi is in English, but has left scattered words of Malay/etc in the mistranslation. (pengetulan for example, is just something that neither wiktionary nor google translate knows.) Compare the paragraph beginning "Medical" with this Google translation:

MEDICAL A study of ubi spring is showing that it has a high steroid that is important in the production of drugs and hormones which joined the sugar known as saponins that may prevent platelets in the blood pengetulan. (WP article)

"The study on the potato indicate where it has a high steroid that is income-ubatan important in medicine and were joined by sugar hormone known as saponins that may prevent platelets in the blood pengetulan." (blog translation)

This comes from a blog, here: [1]

"Kajian terhadap ubi tersebut menunjukkan bahawa ia mempunyai steroid tinggi iaitu penghasilan penting dalam ubat-ubatan dan hormon yang bergabung dengan gula dikenal sebagai saponin yang boleh menghalang pengetulan platelet dalam darah."

I think these are fairly clearly the same claim, so guess this simply refers to the yam. It is not our job to trawl the literature in Malay trying to work out if there is anything more there.

So instant delete, I suggest. Imaginatorium (talk) 16:56, 25 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete title is a botched translation of a Malay common name for a plant, apparently Dioscorea hispida (the scientific name appearing in the blog identified by Imaginatorium). Wikipedia could use an article on D. hispida, but there doesn't seem to be anything worth salvaging in "ubi spring", and a partial translation of the Malay name isn't an appropriate redirect. See here for Malay names for D. hispida; maybe some of them translate to "spring yam"? Plantdrew (talk) 22:37, 25 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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