User talk:Paula.pe

Category:Rare diseases
The majority of medical articles on Wikipedia, in absolute terms, are "rare diseases". Putting every single one in a category is really not very helpful. JFW &#124; T@lk  20:31, 23 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Although such a category may contain many diseases, it is my opinion that it is important for such a category to exist, so that a user interested in exactly this topic (which is very important for those interested in differential diagnosis of orphan diseases - there are journals on this topic) can browse through all of them. There are organizations such as NORD (http://rarediseases.org) and Orpha.net (http://www.orpha.net/) providing lists of rare diseases with their descriptions. Also, note that rare diseases have special status, and persons that suffer from such diseases can benefit from special programmes etc. Therefore, it is my opinion that such a categorization would be useful. Let me know whether I should provide more detailed arguments. Thank you. Paula.pe (talk) 20:58, 23 March 2011 (UTC)


 * I see that the category has now been formally proposed for deletion, so if you want to defend it you should make your comments in the discussion at Categories_for_discussion/Log/2011_March_23. PamD (talk) 23:16, 23 March 2011 (UTC)