Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hypoglycemia (alternative medicine)


 * 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   Can you just move this somewhere please?. Spartaz Humbug! 19:44, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Hypoglycemia (alternative medicine)

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I can't quite tell whether this is supposed to be a alternativist POV fork of hypoglycemia or a coatrack to have a go at alternative medicine, but there's so little here distinct from the main article, and almost none of that referenced, that it's not really doing much. Pseudomonas(talk) 16:14, 19 August 2009 (UTC) ETA - I retract this; I think the page needs reworking a bit and probably renaming, but the talk page explains the rationale for the page's existence Pseudomonas(talk) 09:07, 20 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete. Largely redundant to the parent article, not enough for a separate entry. Hairhorn (talk) 18:35, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete (salt). Absolutely no use, and not a likely search term. Bearian (talk) 18:57, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. It's redundant to the hypoglycemia article. The person who made this article should consider participating in the hypoglycemia article instead. Gary (talk) 23:25, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
 * SAVE It's really hard to respect DELETE opinions that completely ignore the extensive discussion of the need for such an article. Read the entire talk:hypoglycemia page, especially the last few sections. Further evidence that the article is needed is at talk:idiopathic postprandial syndrome and talk:reactive hypoglycemia. The editor who wrote 95% of the hypoglycemia article content IS the editor who created the hypoglycemia (alternative medicine). As explained on the talk page, the purpose is exactly the opposite of an attempt to attack alternative medicine, but is rather an attempt to reduce the confusion caused by two sets of editors with conflicting understandings of two different conditions that unfortunately share a name. The title and separate article were created after amply documented discussions with editors interested in both types of the condition. I am open to suggestions for a different title, and I would be happy to have more contributions to it AFTER you understand the distinction. I plead guilty to not following up quickly with content after creating the article, but you can see a list of references ready for insertion toward the end of talk:hypoglycemia, and I promise to add more content in the next couple of months. I also promise that more content will be added by other editors because there has been a steady trickle of attempted contributions to hypoglycemia over the last couple of years that are only appropriate to hypoglycemia (alternative medicine): now they can be transferred to a natural home. alteripse (talk) 23:56, 19 August 2009 (UTC)


 * OK, I think I now see what's going on, and yes, I misunderstood the point. Not sure how I failed to read the talk page, though; sorry. I think that alternative medicine is a bit red herring here, since it's about a colloquial imprecise use rather than a different system of medicine. Given the article says The scientific medicine term for this condition is idiopathic postprandial syndrome. could we merge the page content with that article? Pseudomonas(talk) 09:02, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
 * keep and rename as above. Pseudomonas(talk) 09:10, 20 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Rename which way? I am not especially wedded to hypoglycemia (alternative medicine), but idiopathic postprandial syndrome never caught on much even among physicians, and not a bit among those whose idea of hypoglycemia is this condition (as you can see from the talk page comments). I am in favor of honoring some form of "the most likely name someone will search for an article is the best title". Those interested in the alternative form of hypoglycemia universally call it "hypoglycemia" and go immediately to the hypoglycemia article. This way a banner at the top will send them to the article about the condition they will recognize. Any other suggestions before we close this page and let Hairhorn, Bearian, and Gary resume patrolling Pokemon articles and ruling on school and band notability? alteripse (talk) 01:48, 22 August 2009 (UTC)


 * was thinking maybe Hypoglycemia (colloquial) or Hypoglycemia (non-medical usage)? Neither great, but alternative medicine is a separate can of worms best avoided herePseudomonas(talk) 06:44, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I agree with you about avoiding alt med. How about hypoglycemia (common usage) ? alteripse (talk) 09:11, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm up for that - "common usage" is more colloquial than "colloquial" :) Pseudomonas(talk) 11:18, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
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