Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of causes of diarrhea


 * 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   delete. Clear consensus to delete, as unencyclopedic/unmanageable/already covered --  Phantom Steve / talk &#124; contribs \ 01:24, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

List of causes of diarrhea

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A hodgepodge of information that could easily be addressed in diarrhea with better sources. JFW | T@lk  08:43, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete - This list will become an unmanageable and useless repository of obscure diseases, and has no hopes of ever being complete. There is also a possible content fork issue, as the diarrhea article already contains a differentials section, which should be appropriately expanded and referenced. If some of the content of this list can go in there, then that is fine. Also note this discussion regarding such articles: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Medicine. PDCook (talk) 14:40, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Strong delete. Like List of causes of fever, we are not a medical encyclopedia, and if we were to implement this, a category would be better. -- Dennis The Tiger   (Rawr and stuff) 15:30, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Agreed. A category isn't a bad idea here. PDCook (talk) 16:01, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
 * That I don't get. Why would we want either?  Anything good enough for a category is good enough for a list, and vice-versa.  I would agree that this indiscriminate list of diseases, where diarrhea is one of the symptoms, strays too close to self-diagnosis, and is already covered, so Delete.  If kept, there should be some disclaimers, inclduing one that says "We recommend that you read this on a portable computer rather than at your desk."  Mandsford (talk) 18:46, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
 * A fair point. In looking at several disease articles, I note that none of them are placed in Category:Causes of symptomX (with the exception of Category:Causes of death). So I suppose there is little precedence for such categories. PDCook (talk) 19:06, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
 * This is granted, Mandsford. At this time, I emphasise my if in my !vote.  I really don't forsee such an implementation - the self-diagnosis potential alone is, to me, what kills it. -- Dennis The Tiger   (Rawr and stuff) 15:34, 3 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete - Unmanageable list, also seems more like a diagnose yourself page often found on the internet. -RobertMel (talk) 16:03, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete - Already included Gastroenteritis and Diarrhoea and better references. Graham Colm (talk) 16:13, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete Information in this format is not manageable and add little. Lists of this sort are not useful without context for each item in the list. Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 20:27, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 16:25, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 16:26, 2 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Keep It is a valuable list of differential diagnoses, and should not be deleted. If you have a specific problem with the list, either fix it immediately or move it to the article incubator for improvement. Immunize (talk) 23:58, 4 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete. Unencyclopedic and unlikely ever to be encyclopedic. Much better would be to add a Causes section to Diarrhea. Eubulides (talk) 18:32, 9 March 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.