Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Index of topics in alternative medicine

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was to delete, but block compressed revisions prevented that. Redirected as an alternative to leaving the article lying around. Cyrius|&#9998; 05:49, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Index of topics in alternative medicine
I previously nominated List of terms and concepts used in alternative medicine for deletion because of redundancy with this article. However, in hindsight, that article had more information than this one, and thus this one should probably be deleted and merged into the more complete list of terms and concepts article. Snowspinner 21:55, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)


 * Then slap a on the one and a  on the other and be bold.  Deletion is not merger.  You're in the wrong place. Uncle G 00:52, 2005 Feb 17 (UTC)
 * I agree with you 100%. The request for a VfD should once again be withdrawn and a request for a merge made. Snowspinner, once again, seems to be totally confused. The deletion of master indexes should not be taken so lightly. -- John Gohde 06:56, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Inclined to agree with Uncle G. Trilobite (Talk) 10:11, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * On reflection I concur with Snowspinner and vote to Delete. It does seem that for various reasons articles relating to alternative medicine are somewhat er... out of control and in this case a VfD listing is probably justified to deal with the redundancy. &mdash; Trilobite (Talk) 14:22, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * KEEP and Do NOT Merge -- Every book has an index, and this is THE master index to Alternative Medicine in Wikipedia. Indexes of topics are the last thing that anybody in Wikipedia should even contemplate deleting.
 * Like the other alternative medicine Lists on VfD, this List happens to be part of a set of 5 Lists called the Core Project Lists and Articles of the Wikiproject on Alternative Medicine. Together these 5 Lists provide a master list of alternative medicine topics.
 * The Wikiproject on Buddhism uses the same kind of article. Their List is called the List of Buddhist topics.
 * What does this list do? Quoting Categories, lists, and series boxes: "Lists have a substantial advantage over categories and series boxes in that they can be annotated. A list can include items that do not yet have an article, and can also show series or groups where the items would be completely separate on the category page. A well-annotated list may duplicate a category, but not be redundant with it.". That is precisely what this Master Index does for the topic of alternative medicine.
 * Quoting the main project page for the Wikiproject on Alternative Medicine: This List is "a master list, of all the articles currently existing on Wikipedia that have been identified as being related to CAM; or that are about an alternative position on health, healing, and/or illness; or are related to these topics.
 * This List is the most complete and accurate Index of articles in Wikipedia about alternative medicine. '''The category:alternative medicine as it presently exists is woefully incomplete, confusing, and inaccurate.
 * Some visitors to Wikipedia prefer to use specialized Lists covering a particular sub-set of a topic, like famous people for example. Other visitors prefer to use a master index. The Index of topics in alternative medicine is designed for real people who like to use master indexes. -- John Gohde 14:33, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.
 * Delete. I took insufficient care in reading the reasoning in the original post for deletion, this subject seems have a few too many redundant, repetitive articles. HyperZonktalk 22:15, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC) Keep. Inclined to agree with John Gohde's extensive argument above; however, this is my first approach to this kind of issue, so I am open to being convinced otherwise by those with more experience in the metastructure of WP if they effectively counter his arguments. HyperZonktalk 17:12, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * The subject of this particular vote is not whether or not there are redundant repetitive articles in Wikipedia but rather the fate of one master index called the Index of topics in alternative medicine. -- John Gohde 06:51, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect or delete; there only needs to be one such list. -Sean Curtin 01:29, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC)