Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cultural references to chronic fatigue syndrome


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The result was   delete. Ron Ritzman (talk) 02:10, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

Cultural references to chronic fatigue syndrome

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This material amounts to "Passing references to CFS/ME in TV shows". A discussion at Talk:Chronic fatigue syndrome concluded that a merge or selective merge to the main article was not desired, and it seems that an article by this title cannot stand alone as it is merely made up of (mainly unsourced) passing trivia. I have tried to find secondary sources on this topic, and I failed.

There's been an edit war over a redirect and proposed deletion, so I am bringing this here to resolve this. Fences &amp;  Windows  13:45, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Popular culture-related deletion discussions.  --  Fences  &amp;  Windows  13:48, 20 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions.  —Fvasconcellos (t·c) 13:49, 20 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete as trivia. Roscelese (talk) 14:41, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete as trivia. Carrite (talk) 15:52, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete as trivia. StevieNic (talk) 16:34, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Merge/Redirect to Chronic fatigue syndrome. Has to little information to merit a standalone article. Following merge, the talk page can be used to discuss whether or not to include content. Tatterfly (talk) 19:08, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. Ugh, I am generally opposed to even small trivia sections in articles, never mind an article dedicated to this type of thing. It borders on spam in my view.-- Literature geek |  T@1k?  21:02, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete as trivia, oppose merge as it was already discussed, merged, and deleted from Chronic fatigue syndrome by consensus as Fences and windows stated above. Ward20 (talk) 21:36, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete per Ward20. There was never even enough content to meet the advantages mentioned in WP:IPCA. The current content is not worth merging, and discussion can proceed at Talk:Chronic fatigue syndrome regardless of the existence of a standalone article. In fact, this is probably one of those cases where a clean slate is the best encouragement to actual content building. Fvasconcellos (t·c) 22:31, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete as per my previous comments on Talk:Chronic fatigue syndrome. Trivia, limited scope, not a secondary source in sight. JFW | T@lk  00:27, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete per above; topic doesn't require a stand-alone article— Chris! c / t 02:56, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. This has no place in a medical article, much less as a standalone article. If it can be demonstrated that other medical articles commonly cite TV references, I might be convinced to change my vote to Merge, but I can't recall ever having seen any that do. —RobinHood70 (talk • contribs) 04:28, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.