Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of terms and concepts used in alternative medicine

List of terms and concepts used in alternative medicine
Redundant with Index of topics in alternative medicine. This page is just a series of dicdefs of key entries in the index of topics. Content should be merged to index of topics, and this page should be made a redirect. Snowspinner 22:16, Feb 15, 2005 (UTC) I am reasonably persuaded that this should actually be the list to survive, and that Index of topics in alternative medicine should be deleted instead. Snowspinner 21:51, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. I agree one of the two of them should go, but I kind of like this one more than Index of topics in alternative medicine, and I think it is the latter that I would delete.  For one thing, a category can handle what the Index article is doing, but not what this one is doing. --BM 18:23, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC) (Oops, missed a tilde the last time)
 * Fair enough I was thinking of merging with index, but I can take the other way around. Who are you? Snowspinner 05:47, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, redundant/duplicate page, no redirect. Megan1967 06:37, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * KEEP -- This is quite an ingenious List that is actually very practical. It 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 Buddhist terms and concepts. Instead of editors writing 100s, if not 1,000s, of stub articles on the various terms and concepts used in alternative medicine all these quick and to the point stub writeups are written in one very long List called the: List of terms and concepts used in alternative medicine. 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 List does for terms and concepts used in alternative medicine.  As the above quote stated this List is heavily annotated. It is in effect a glossary on alternative medicine. The Index of topics in alternative medicine is NOT annotated. This list shares absolutely nothing in common with the Index of topics in alternative medicine. -- John Gohde 14:18, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Feel free to recreate the content of the miscellaneous article into one of your project subpages, then. The article namespace should be used for articles - not lists of things needing expansion. If an article would stop being useful once its contents all have articles, it should be moved somewhere out of the article namespace. Snowspinner 17:47, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Its clearly a glossary and should be part of the Glossaries category. It can quite easily co-exist with an index as the two do in many books. Lumos3 16:07, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * That's fine, but ultimately limiting. Ideally, the terms and concepts should all be defined. If the two were merged, it would clearly show areas in which more definitions are needed. Snowspinner 17:47, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Paul August  &#9742; 16:27, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Annotated lists are extremely useful. WpZurp 16:47, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: Perhaps a better title for this might be: "Glossary of terms and concepts used in alternative medicine". Paul August &#9742; 18:03, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)


 * Delete Merge and redirect with Index of topics in alternative medicine --Lee Hunter 19:02, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and move to Glossary of alternative medicine. Once other cleanup is done (see my suggestion on Votes for deletion/List of miscellaneous topics related to alternative medicine), Index of topics in alternative medicine could then just be a list of lists. --Zigger 19:27, 2005 Feb 16 (UTC)
 * Keep. For link source purposes, a list of terms actually seems more concrete to me than "topics", but seems useful either way.  Chris Rodgers 02:20, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. Certainly this information should be kept, regardless of whether it's merged with another article or kept separate.  (And regardless of whether the ideas on this page have any medical validity or not; there are, for example, pages on theories in physics that were shown long ago to be erroneous; nobody says that's a reason to delete them.)  I'm inclined to say "list of terms and concepts" is often not the same thing as "list of topics"; that may depend on the subject matter.
 * Keep Let's remember that we're trying to look at things from the perspective of the legitimate seeker for information. It's more practical from that perspective and more educationally useful. SimonATL 11:45, 23 June 2006 (UTC)