Talk:Azotosome

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Notability concerns[edit]

This entire article is based on a single (highly publicized) paper about a theoretical entity which has not yet garnered any citations. While the azotosome may well become a well-studied entity, right now it is not notable, and there are good chances that it will stay that way. As an inclusionist, I am not going take it to WP:AFD yet, but if there are still no favorable citations in a couple years, that would be the right thing to do. Wikipedia is not a place to document every scientific paper that has been published-- that is for journals. WP:PRIMARY advises: "Do not base an entire article on primary sources." A2soup (talk) 07:49, 7 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It's a novel coinage for an emerging concept; as such, I believe it deserves documentation. (And of course if life is actually discovered on Titan eventually, this will be highly notable.)Kortoso (talk) 18:01, 5 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Those are actually both arguments against this article: see WP:NEO and WP:CRYSTALBALL. A2soup (talk) 00:53, 25 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Name[edit]

Azote is the word for nitrogen in frech, coined by Antoine_Lavoisier, BUT, it is a greek word meaning life-less (ά-ζωτο). Thus, azotosome means "lifeless body". I don't know what to do with this information, I wonder if the original authors of the paper know. Everything else on the internet seems to be a rehash of some report on the original paper, blindly citing that "azote is a french word for nitrogen". Any thoughts? Panosfirbas (talk) 00:44, 25 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It was called an azotosome because "azote" or "azoto" means "nitrogen" in many languages, and an "az-" prefix indicates nitrogen even in English. Lavoisier named nitrogen after the Greek for "lifeless" because it cannot sustain life (or flames). But talking about why Lavoisier made the decisions he did seems irrelevant here. The proximal etymology of azotosome is the widespread use of "azote" to refer to nitrogen. A2soup (talk) 00:51, 25 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]