Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dermasurgeon


 * 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 was   redirect to Dermatologic surgeon. The Bushranger One ping only 20:58, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

Dermasurgeon

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Article was a redirect to Dermatologic surgeon until User:DrDermatology converted it to article. Several reverts later, DrD insist the target is inappropriate and so the article. However the article as it stands is a dictionary definition and not an encyclopedic article.

I am also nominating the following related page for the same reason:

-- KTC (talk) 19:35, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Revert to the redirect and protect if necessary. The term is in use, as a google scholar search will indicate.  However, there does not seem to be any substantive light between "dermasurgeon" and "dermatologic surgeon".  Indeed, most of the references to the former term come from the pages of the journal Dermatologic Surgery (this for example).  Some of the contention probably arises from the lack of an article at dermatologic surgery, which currently redirects to the parent dermatology (and so dermasurgery would as well, to avoid a double redirect).  That's not ideal, but AFD isn't AFC. Squeamish Ossifrage (talk) 20:49, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions. 19:02, 16 August 2012 (UTC)  • Gene93k (talk) 19:02, 16 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Redirect both to Dermatologic surgeon, protect if necessary. I see from the history that User:DrDermatology insists that the terms are not equivalent - that "dermatologic surgeons" must be board certified in dermatology while "dermasurgeons come from many fields". However, I could find no verification of that distinction in a search - in fact the terms appear to be used interchangeably by those few people who do use the term - so the distinction appears to be original research. It also doesn't square with my experience, which is that physicians may call themselves a "dermatologic surgeon" regardless of whether or not they are board certified in dermatology. --MelanieN (talk) 19:20, 16 August 2012 (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.