Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Meningitis (disambiguation)


 * 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 all. Jayjg (talk) 01:08, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

Meningitis (disambiguation)

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All subarticles of meningitis, not really a suitable subject for disambiguation JFW | T@lk  08:50, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

I am also nominating the following related pages for exactly the same reasons:


 * Delete The word is not ambiguous: all the articles linked to refer to the same meaning of "meningitis", but to different types of it. ("Cow" is not ambiguous because there are different breeds of cows.) The article Meningitis links to all of the articles, which is a much better way of connecting to them than a disambiguation page. Finally, who is ever going to find this page? Why would anyone ever type "Meningitis (disambiguation)" into Wikipedia? Surely anyone looking for information on meningitis would be more likely to type in "Meningitis". Precisely the same applies to the dab pages for leukemia and lymphoma. JamesBWatson (talk) 09:09, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete all None of these are appropriate disam pages given the existence of the main articles. Not useful as a search term.  Jim Miller  See me 13:45, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete I agree with all of the above; these are inappropriate pages and I can't understand why they were created. Graham Colm (talk) 15:22, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

Keep I feel that, while the page lymphoma (disambiguation), should be redirected to lymphoma, the leukemia (disambiguation) and meningitis (disambiguation) pages should not be deleted, as there are different subtypes of leukemia and meningitis, including erythroid leukemia, myelomonocytic leukemia, and acute myeloid leukemia. All in all, I oppose the deletion of these pages. Immunize (talk) 14:40, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment - It should be noted that Immunize created these articles. PDCook (talk) 15:50, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment Yes there are "different subtypes of leukemia and meningitis", but that is not what a disambiguation page is for: it is for distinguishing different articles which otherwise might have the same title. JamesBWatson (talk) 14:21, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Note- I am considering moving this article to central nervous system infection (disambiguation), and then expanding it to also provide links to the wikipedia pages on other forms of CNS infection, such as encephalitis and Neuroborreliosis. Immunize (talk) 16:17, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Disambiguations-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 15:37, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. Especially the cow statement. PDCook (talk) 15:50, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete, partial title match list, orphan, and function served by links in Meningitis -- JHunterJ (talk) 15:55, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
 * It's a list, not a dab page. A move to any "... (disambiguation)" title would not help. Does the list already at Central nervous system infection not suffice? -- JHunterJ (talk) 17:27, 9 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete Jim Miller sums up what I would have said. Casliber (talk · contribs) 11:10, 13 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete This list does not meet the standards for a WP:DAB page; in fact, they are all solid examples of "What not to do" as outlined at WP:DAB.  WhatamIdoing (talk) 21:09, 13 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions.  —PDCook (talk) 22:45, 13 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete since in all three cases, a more thorough disambiguation is done at the main articles Meningitis, Leukemia, and Lymphoma. --MelanieN (talk) 04:44, 14 February 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.