Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Oversleeping


 * 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 of the debate was no overall consensus, but since a redirect to hypersomnia seems to suit most people, I'll do that. Flowerparty ☀ 01:13, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Oversleeping
Just a dicdef - can't see any real scope for expansion, but I'm always open to someone proving me wrong on that front :) Barneyboo (Talk) 14:16, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Weak keep for now; see where it goes. Should at least redirect to Sleep disorder, but right now there's nothing about oversleeping on that page.  --Allen 16:54, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Redirect to hypersomnia per discussion below. --Allen 15:58, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. It's a dicdef with no hope for expansion.  I can't imagine who this would help, since it's pretty obvious what oversleeping is. Brian G. Crawford 16:59, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree, no more than a dicdef, with nowhere to go. I'm not sure that redirecting to Sleep disorder is a good idea, because oversleeping in common parlance isn't necessarily a reference to any disorder. fuddlemark (fuddle me!) 17:16, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep I have attempted to expand the article a bit to provide some distinction between normal "sleeping in" by adults and teenagers which is not considered abnormal and hypersomnia which is indeed a serious disorder. Some further information to define the difference between normal and abnormal oversleeping would be helpful for this article. Bige1977 18:23, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep Whilst it seems pretty limited, I think that this article could well have some potential. You could tie sleep patterns into it - for example (original research, this, but consider it an example), I find that I seem to oversleep more when I go to bed early. I can see that the scope of "normal oversleeping" is rather unexpandable-seeming, but things like the effect of oversleeping students on school grades (from a large-scale perspective, i.e. how much productivity is lost?) could be interesting and useful. --Doug (talk) 21:10, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete or redirect to hypersomnia. --Tango 21:12, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Redirect per Tango. —porg es (talk) 22:37, 29 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Strong Keep I overslept this morning. This is such a notable topic that anyone who doesn't do it must have been biologicaly altered.  Tobyk777 06:18, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Redirect to hypersomnia. Seriously, is there anything here that is not covered in (or able to be added to) that article? MCB 06:36, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Redirect or merge into hypersomnia as per Tango and MCB. Amalas   =^_^=  13:55, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Following the discussion, I change my delete recommendation, to instead redirect to hypersomnia Barneyboo (Talk) 18:18, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep or redirect to hypersomnia. Mmmmmmmm, sleep.  Can&#39;t sleep, clown will eat me 10:49, 3 May 2006 (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.