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The result was keep. Nomination withdrawn. (non-admin closure) Icebob99 (talk) 03:43, 18 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Plasmodium icipeensis[edit]

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Not a single source to be found. Only two mentions out of non-mirror sites, and those were in an indiscriminate list of Plasmodium species that has some errors. Only 70 results on a google search Icebob99 (talk) 20:30, 14 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. There does appear to have been a real species description published under this name, though I don't have access to the paper: [1]. And while my first instinct on reading the specific epithet was to assume this was a hoax, it seems that ICIPE has used it before: [2]. But it's clear this has never been accepted or validated; the article itself mentions a different species in its text; and the article was started by an editor who was blocked for uncritically cut-and-pasting copyvio from whatever abstracts he could google up, so in all likelihood this was just an error in the first place. Opabinia regalis (talk) 20:53, 14 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organisms-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 03:32, 16 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Keep The paper (Dipeolu & Mutinga, 2011) in question describes this and 9 others as species novae. It fulfills the requirements for publication under the ICZN and is thus valid until challenged.-- OBSIDIAN†SOUL 18:52, 17 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Going to withdraw based on that paper. Google didn't pull it up in search results for some reason...? Thanks for bringing it here. Icebob99 (talk) 03:42, 18 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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