Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mobile hospital


 * 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 redirect to Field hospital. Content can be merged from history as desired.  Sandstein  22:36, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

Mobile hospital

 * – ( View AfD View log )

This article is a very poorly written, almost entirely unsourced redundant content fork of field hospital with no notability as a separate topic. Author claims in article that a mobile hospital differs from a field hospital in that "the mobile hospital is a movable unit itself, but a field hospital is a transportable unit" and "the body materials of the mobile hospital are thermal insulation layer with a sheet of steel or fiberglass, but the tent of the field hospital is a fabric and tarpaulin". These differences make little sense and are dependent on an unsourced and plain false definition of a field hospital.

Due to the article's very low quality level, lack of sources, and general duplication of field hospital, mobile army surgical hospital, and shipping container clinic there is no valuable content worth merging.

PROD was removed with only the explanation "per WP:DEPROD".  Pais  a re pa  21:32, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions.  Pais  a re pa  21:32, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions.  Pais  a re pa  21:32, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Keep The field hospital article has had a banner tag with multiple issues since 2014 and so is clearly neither adequate nor complete. The concept of a mobile hospital is more general than that of a field hospital.  The latter is more specific, being set in or near a military front line.  A mobile hospital is a more general concept and would tend to be a more substantial facility.  For example, the rapid deployment of temporary COVID isolation hospitals in China using prefabricated components would be in scope for the page in question.  A hospital ship is another type of mobile hospital and they were used during the pandemic too.  It is easy to find respectable sources which address the topic by this title – see Use of an Innovative Design Mobile Hospital in the Medical Response to Hurricane Katrina – and so our policy WP:ATD applies, "If editing can improve the page, this should be done rather than deleting the page." Andrew🐉(talk) 22:58, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Comment 'Field hospital' refers to civilian settings as well as military. NPR,BBC,MedPage Today,WebMD. That the original article was tagged for multiple issues doesn't justify creating a WP:REDUNDANTFORK. Sources address the topic by this term because it is a common synonym, but creating separate articles for synonymous terms is the literal definition of REDUNDANTFORK-ing.  Pais  a re pa  23:29, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep - I do not see what is wrong with this. It's not technically a fork, and not so bad as to be deleted and started from scratch. Bearian (talk) 15:56, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Redirect: This is an unnesseary FORK of field hospital, which states in the lead a "field hospital" is a "mobile medical unit". I do not see any properly sourced content for a merge, the article is almost entirely OR/SYNTH.  // Timothy :: talk  20:45, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Redirect to field hospital - As stated by Timothy above, pretty much the entirety of this article is completely unsourced, making it WP:OR. The field hospital article itself isn't in the best shape, but it does have considerably more sourced content than this article does.  Could this subject potentially be developed in a way that it would be a valid WP:SPLIT?  Possibly.  Should we keep an article comprised entirely of original research in the main article space in the meantime?  Absolutely not.  Rorshacma (talk) 22:48, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Daniel (talk) 23:27, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Redirect to field hospital. Although the concept of a "mobile hospital" does seem to be a concept in its own right, I don't think we need an article for this. The field hospital article opens with "A field hospital is a temporary hospital or mobile medical unit", which is basically describing this article. I am not too concerned about the sourcing issue, though much of the prose is not really relevant. The term "mobile hospital" is probably useful so a redirect is appropriate. Bungle (talk • contribs) 22:30, 13 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Merge→Field hospital. They close enough related that a single article would be of more benefit. Size isn't an issue, this page is 17Mb and the other is only 12Mb. (If not merge, then "keep" would be my 2nd choice) - wolf  03:54, 19 March 2021 (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.