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Mephedrone was one of the Natural sciences good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

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Date	Process	Result
September 27, 2010	Good article nominee	Listed
October 28, 2024	Good article reassessment	Delisted

Current status: Delisted good article

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"Street of Shame". Private Eye No. 1259, p. 6:. 2010-04-02.
Way back in January 2009, not long after mephedrone first began to be sold online, members of the web forum attached to the now-defunct "headshop" Champagne Legals discussed what brand name they might attach to the new product, which has the chemical identity dimethylmethcathinone or MM-Cat.
"What shall we call this drug? It's called MM-CAT, so why not Miaow?" suggested one. The name did not catch on ... But on 1 November 2009, someone did add the name "Meow" to the Wikipedia entry for Mephedrone at the head of a list of "street names."
Three weeks later ... the Sun declared the arrival of a "new party favourite called 'meow meow'" and the world went cat-call crazy.
Among a host of recent headlines the Sunday Times has reported on "the rise of Meow", the Times has heralded "Meow Meow arrests", the Sun shrieked about a "Harman snub for Meow Meow Ban" and the Daily Telegraph took a long hard look at the "Meow Meow Menace in Europe."
"No one ever called it Meow seriously till the papers picked up on the Wikipedia entry," one drugs expert tells the Eye.
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The scatty effect

on the 3rd and 4th day of being on mkat your brain starts to realise its lacking sleep and starts to play up "scatty" the effect consists loss of memory unable to determine where you are. Researchers have recently found out that one "scatty" victim can trigger the effects in another drug user that has been in the company of the "scatty" victim... 31.94.56.109 (talk) 05:37, 25 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Conflicting source for serotonergic neurotoxicity

Hello, ive read the paper about the purported neurotoxicity to serotonergic neurons. Source 27 is included, which states that mephedrone likely has no serotonergic neurotoxic effects, even though the statement in the wikitext says it does.

I'd like someone more knowledgeable about Wiki to look to it. Thanks! NDElsga (talk) 18:08, 23 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

GA concerns

I am concerned that this article does not meet the good article criteria because the "Pharmacology" section has had an "update needed" orange banner since 2015. Has this been resolved, and if not is anyone interested in fixing this up or should it go to WP:GAR? Z1720 (talk) 21:01, 5 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

GA Reassessment

Mephedrone

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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Result: Delisted. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 14:31, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The "Pharmacology" section has had an "update needed" banner since 2015 which does not seem to have been resolved. Z1720 (talk) 16:10, 12 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have updated the pharmacology section using more recent sources. Still could use more review articles though. Boghog (talk) 19:53, 12 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

SandyGeorgia could I ask for your opinion of the sourcing in this article, if you have the time? ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 10:44, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.