Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of oncology-related terms

 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 ambiguous. AI count 5 delete to 5 keep. Even after discounting the anon and very new user votes, this article fails to reach a clear concensus to delete. The decision defaults to keep for now. Rossami (talk) 04:53, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

List of oncology-related terms
It's supposed to be a list of oncology-related terms (who would've thought that?), but the way it is now it's pretty unusable: many links to disambiguation pages and links like bias, clinical, hormone, kidney, laser, lupus, motor, oral, penis, plasma, rectum, sensor, TM and vitamin are not useful in any way. I found these links by just swiftly looking over the huge list. I don't oppose a list like that, but it should be more than just a copy&paste of a really huge senseless list of terms that have something to do with the topic, so I vote Delete the list as it is now. --Conti|&#9993; 12:35, Jan 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * I vote Delete &mdash; Brim 13:37, Jan 25, 2005 (UTC)


 * Delete. As noted, many terms are not oncology specific.  Useful subsets of this list are found in their respective articles already.  (Many of the chemotherapy drugs are linked in chemotherapy, for instance.) --TenOfAllTrades 20:11, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep: one of the few useful lists in Wikipedia. Put it on cleanup with a request to cut out the items not specifically related to oncology. Wile E. Heresiarch 06:26, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. We also have Category:Oncology, which should duplicate any list of oncology terms. --TenOfAllTrades 17:16, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep, if it can be cleaned up and expanded to make it more practical. If we can allow trivial music lists on Wikipedia I see nothing wrong with this list. Megan1967 23:52, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and clean up please I find long lists like this sometimes very rewarding although I do feel that they could get rid of the many unessecarry terms.
 * Above vote was by anon. --Idont Havaname 01:02, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, concur with Megan1967. --Idont Havaname 01:00, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, should be a category. Tuf-Kat 04:05, Jan 30, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, concur with Megan1967. --Stevieboy
 * User's first (and yet only) two edits are on this page. --Conti|&#9993; 21:47, Jan 31, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Like Tuf-Kat, I think that the category is enough. &mdash; Asbestos | Talk 21:40, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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