The result was keep. — Coffee // have a cup // ark // 09:23, 8 February 2010 (UTC) reply
Delete. This is the the only article in a "decades in scince" series. Articles for 1970 in science, 1971 in science etc already exist. This articles and the years in science series are poorly maintained. To make maint easier and since there seems to be little interest in developing these articles the decade in science should be deleted. It will put the related category up for deletion as well. -- Alan Liefting ( talk) - 23:58, 1 February 2010 (UTC) reply
Nominator comments. Firstly, I fully endorse the above comments by Mercurywoodrose. To do an article on the science of a particuar decade does not make sense unless it is a timeline or list of events rather than an analysis. A timeline of science would be too long. Breaking it into years is much better as has been done in the List of years in science. Potentially there could be a List of decades in science but that would be redundant since there is a already a list of years in science. Creating articles to do an analysis of science within a decade is setting arbitrary constraints. Science should be analysed within a field (eg History of genetics), a defined period of history (eg Science in the Age of Enlightenment) or any other method that has defined constraints. -- Alan Liefting ( talk) - 08:26, 2 February 2010 (UTC) reply
The result was keep. — Coffee // have a cup // ark // 09:23, 8 February 2010 (UTC) reply
Delete. This is the the only article in a "decades in scince" series. Articles for 1970 in science, 1971 in science etc already exist. This articles and the years in science series are poorly maintained. To make maint easier and since there seems to be little interest in developing these articles the decade in science should be deleted. It will put the related category up for deletion as well. -- Alan Liefting ( talk) - 23:58, 1 February 2010 (UTC) reply
Nominator comments. Firstly, I fully endorse the above comments by Mercurywoodrose. To do an article on the science of a particuar decade does not make sense unless it is a timeline or list of events rather than an analysis. A timeline of science would be too long. Breaking it into years is much better as has been done in the List of years in science. Potentially there could be a List of decades in science but that would be redundant since there is a already a list of years in science. Creating articles to do an analysis of science within a decade is setting arbitrary constraints. Science should be analysed within a field (eg History of genetics), a defined period of history (eg Science in the Age of Enlightenment) or any other method that has defined constraints. -- Alan Liefting ( talk) - 08:26, 2 February 2010 (UTC) reply