Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Medicare card

 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 KEEP.

The votes were 6 keep, 1 redirect, 3 delete. dbenbenn | talk 00:03, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Medicare card
Stub with no potential to become encyclopedic. The Medicare (Australia) page mentions the existence of the card; that should be sufficient. --Angr 13:30, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete or redirect to Medicare? Cdc 16:14, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * COMMENT Australia is not the only place with a medicare card. Redirect makes more sense. 132.205.45.148 22:25, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Medicare (Australia). -- Longhair 23:08, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong keep. Excellent encyclopedic article with potential to expand into something more substantial, useful and interesting. There have been various different types of cards since they were first introduced, and numerous proposals to use them as a form of national ID. This article is the place to document all of that. --Centauri 02:21, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep, article needs definite expansion, but as has been pointed out many countries have a Medicare card, so the article may have to be moved to "Medicare card (Australia)" and existing page turned into a disambig page. Megan1967 02:30, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, could use expansion on history of the cards, use of similar cards in other places (Canadian provinces have similar card systems). The main article could have subarticles or simply links to Medicare articles.--Circeus 15:37, Jan 28, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, probably with sections for each Medicare card. The OHIP medicare card here in Ontario (mostly, it should be said, called the "health card") has been the subject of public debate for ages - we long used a white card with simply name and number, and one government was going to add photos over a green background of trilliums. The opposition whined that green was the ruling party's secondary official colour, but the blue opposition stuck with it when they got in power. There was much allegation of fraudulent cards having been manufactured and sold to Americans. Samaritan 19:56, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. If you want an article on the canadian health cards, then make a seperate article. --Spinboy 00:09, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * But if the article on the Australian ones (a stub, yes, but you have to start somewhere) had been deleted as you're voting to do now, why bother? Samaritan 14:20, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Philip 15:15, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. --JuntungWu 09:38, 30 Jan 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.