Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of diseases featured on House


 * 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 merge with List of House episodes and redirect thither. Joe 07:08, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

List of diseases featured on House

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According to What Wikipedia is not, Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. Further, according to Notability, ''a topic is notable if it has been the subject of multiple, non-trivial published works from sources that are reliable and independent of the subject itself and each other. All topics must meet a minimum threshold of notability in order for an article on that topic to be included in Wikipedia.'' This article is nothing but a trivial collection of quite useless information, and it most definitely has not been the subject of multiple, non-trivial published works. I argue whole-heartedly for the deletion of this, and the many similar, articles. Jobjörn (Talk ° contribs) 04:00, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment, see Featured list candidates/List of House episodes for a reason for this list to exist. I'm not going to go either way in this AfD because I have a bad conflict of interest here, since I wrote most of the article. NOTE to closing admin: if this page gets deleted, please let me copy the diseases themselves into my userspace for use in another article. PTO 04:13, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment: Uh, I fail to see your point there - List of House episodes has not been nominated for deletion, and even though I don't think lists of the sort are worthy of inclusion here I wouldn't bother nominating them. The threshold has to be set somewhere, though, and a list of diseases featured in a television show just doesn't make it, in my opinion. Jobjörn (Talk ° contribs) 04:26, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, in the FLC a couple users said that the episode list would be much more complete with the diagnoses in it. As the episode list uses a fixed template, Episode list, it wouldn't be practical to force it in there. A different user had gone ahead and made the article and its skeleton, so I made lemons into lemonade. PTO 04:32, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Then I suggest merging to that article, and well, a change in Episode list to allow these things. Or couldn't it be included in the plot summary? Jobjörn (Talk ° contribs) 04:38, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
 * It's going to take some tweaking, but I'll be able to do it if I have to. I'd really like it if I didn't have to, though...if you get my drift. :D. Cheers, PTO 04:47, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I could help out, even though I have no experience of it whatsoever. However, inserting mentions of diseases into plot summaries - that I can do. I still want this one deleted though. Jobjörn (Talk ° contribs) 05:10, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge - As per comments to their respective episodes. Ronbo76 12:11, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge the short diagnosis into the List of House episodes. If the template is awkward to adapt, just append "Diagnosis: Colchicine poisoning." to the episode summary. Merge all the other episode-disease info into respective episodes. It would be a shame to see all those good descriptions and references go to waste and most of the episode articles are just woefull stubs. Colin°Talk 23:22, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep or merge to episode articles or List of House episodes. To be honest, I'm undecided which one to do. But the information should be kept in an easily accessible format. I'd also like to say that including real-world links for a large number of the diseases presented in the show was a nice touch - good on ya! Quack 688 05:58, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete - Trivial list. I assume this information is already disseminated throughout the relevant episode articles already.  Wickethewok 07:12, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Content has now been merged to List of House episodes. Ohconfucius 07:39, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete, as content has been merged. Jobjörn (Talk ° contribs) 08:06, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment It will almost surely be observed that merge and delete (or, here, delete upon merge) is not a tenable AfD disposition in view of its non-compliance with the GFDL. Whilst that's not entirely true, any such close is disfavored by our GFDL policy and requires exorbitant time to effect.  It is possible, I suppose, that one might argue that the content here comprised is not of the sort the copying of which should require history preservation, but we are always obliged to err on the side of attribution.  Joe 07:04, 11 January 2007 (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.