Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Orthorexia nervosa

 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. JeremyA 21:08, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Orthorexia nervosa
This article has very little hope of being made encyclopedic at present Whig 17:03, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep: 1)There are 11,500 google hits, a medical paper, and a BBC article on the subject. 2)The user that nominated the VfD also put an NPOV tag on it, even though, IMO, there is little reason for it. The entry seems neutral to me (though in the past it has had problems, per the history), it's just that Whig (per the talk page) seems to vehemently disaggree with the assertations made by the scientist(s) noted (rather than the tone and language of the article).  Vendetta?  --Jeffrey O. Gustafson 17:43, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, deletion is not the solution for whatever problems this article may have. Kappa 17:57, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Notable enough that the average person might well look to Wikipedia for an explanation of the term. -- BD2412 talk 17:58, 2005 Jun 9 (UTC)
 * Strong keep. Whig, just because an article isn't encyclopaedic yet, doesn't mean it won't ever be. That's why we have Stubs. jglc | t | c 18:02, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong Delete - Unneccesary new article attempting to pathologize healthy eating. Blackcats 18:34, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * First, it's not a "new article"- it's 25 months old. Second, it's not "unnecessary" by any known wikipedia standards.  And third, the article is not attempting to pathologize healthy eating, it is simply reporting a phenomena that is both recognized in popular culture, and a legitamate object of scientific study.  --Jeffrey O. Gustafson 01:46, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * "The average vegan weighs 23 lbs. less than a non-vegetarian and 12 lbs. less than a dairy vegetarian according to the isocaloric research studies of Dr. Mervyn Hardinge." Yeah, and with as fat as Americans are these days, I think that's a good thing.  I'd say merge anything salvagable into "criticisms" sections of Healthful eating, and/or Vegan, and/or Vegetarianism.  If it does end up being kept it's going to need a major NPOV overhaul.  Blackcats 18:34, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * You mistake the article for a criticism of healthy eating when it is clearly not. That says almost as much as your statements immediately above.  --Jeffrey O. Gustafson 01:46, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep: Regardless of whether we agree with the contents of the article, "orthorexia nervosa" has entered standard lexicons and encyclopedias of disease.  It's supposed to refer not to proper eating, but to such anxiety about perfect eating that leads to malnutrition. Geogre 18:41, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, it is about obsessive healthy eating, rather than healthy eating in general.     19:57, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep legitimate medical topic. JamesBurns 06:05, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep legitimate phenomenon. --Angr/undefined 07:34, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. James F. (talk) 16:44, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Or move to wiktionary (and reference all links to this article to there) njaard 05:50, 2005 Jun 17 (UTC)


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