Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cercarial dermatitis


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.  

The result of the debate was redirect to swimmer's itch. howcheng  [ t &#149; c &#149; w &#149;  e  ] 22:38, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Cercarial dermatitis
this page is redundant with respect to a recently created, more detailed page on swimmer's itch. Moreover, in its original form it erroneously stated that cercarial dermatitis to be a mild form of schistosomiasis. While, technically, "cercarial dermatitis" may refer to both the mild dermatological symptoms of an otherwise serious disease caused by parasites of humans (Schistosoma) and the benign, short-lived symptoms caused by other schistosomes that do not successfully infect humans, it is useful to reserve the term for only one of the conditions, which have distinct etiologies. Arga Warga 19:52, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Agreed, we don't need two articles, but I would redirect, not delete. But, if cercarial dermatitis is the medical term, should we merge the (vastly superior) swimmer's itch article here and create a redirect there, instead? -- Vary 20:03, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge to swimmer's itch and redirect. howcheng   [ t &#149; c &#149; w &#149;  e  ] 00:40, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
 * A redundant duplicate article, did you say? Uncle G 04:48, 18 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the input. A link/merge would do just as well. (I'm new here; still learning the ropes... now to check out Uncle G's link) Arga Warga 17:13, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Redirected to swimmer's itch. – ClockworkSoul 18:10, 18 December 2005 (UTC)


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