Talk:Placebo (origins of technical term)

I have constructed this special page, because the information it contains must be dealt with at considerable length; and this length would mean that the placebo article becomes far too long. I am in the process of creating a merged placebo article that matches the nocebo article. This is the first part of that contributionLindsay658 06:24, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Diverse Applications of the term Placebo
Because the article was getting too long, I have created a new article uses of the term placebo and moved the long list of examples from the "Diverse Applications of the term Placebo" section. The principal reason for doing this is that it seems a very important set of information, but seems to distract from the overall message of Placebo (origins of technical term) to the extent that its allocation of space within the article can not, in my opinion, be justified.

However, once I have completed the entire Placebo (origins of technical term) article, and the Wikipedia "powers that be" decide that the list of examples ought to appear in a much longer Placebo (origins of technical term) article -- and, therefore, ought to be merged back again -- I have no objection whatsoever. It seems that the problem lies not so much with the "word count", but more with the cross-refencing, etc. taking up a lot of electronic space.

Anyway, i thought that I should clarify what i have done.Lindsay658 05:45, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

I merged Placebo (origins of technical term) back into placebo because it had become less and less about semantics and more and more merely yet another a content forking of placebo. Anthony Appleyard 12:33, 13 December 2006 (UTC)