Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robotic Kidney Surgery


 * 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 Robotic surgery. No content worth merging. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 19:02, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Robotic Kidney Surgery

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This article reads like a patient instruction sheet. Wikipedia is not WebMD. Some of the information in the article might be useful to merge into Robotic surgery. Tckma (talk) 14:41, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Speedy redirect to robotic surgery. Probably a copyvio anyway. It is useful to know that "it may be difficult to fit into my regular button pants" but I don't need Wikipedia to tell me that. &mdash; RHaworth (Talk | contribs) 14:48, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I see this has been speedied once. The author admits: "I am using information given to me from Henry Ford Hospital on Robotic Kidney Surgery." So speedy as copyvio. &mdash; RHaworth (Talk | contribs) 14:50, 7 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Comment: Looking at the initial contributor's talk page, it seems that a previous version of the article was CSD'd as a copyvio. I'm going to move this over to CSD.  --Tckma (talk) 14:52, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
 *  Speedy delete and redirect as copyvio . -- Explodicle (T/C) 15:47, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Even if it's not a copyright violation, it still violates WP:NOTHOWTO as the others mention. -- Explodicle (T/C) 13:11, 10 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete - author claims at User talk:Tckma/ArchivesNov, 2009 to have permission, and has been given advice about copyright clearance. However (a) the piece is more a how-to guide than an encyclopedia article and (b) I think the intent is promotional on behalf of Dr Craig Rogers and the Henry Ford Hospital, whose web-site it copies and links to, and who the author works for. If there is useful material here it would be better added to Robotic surgery, and by someone without a WP:COI. JohnCD (talk) 16:54, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete: Even if the owners allow inclusion of their copyrighted material, Wikipedia is not the place to store combined marketing/instruction manuals. Favonian (talk) 20:09, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete: My main concern is not copyvivo, but that the article does look both like a promotional and "how-to" material, which has reduced level of WP tolerance in this area (medical care, especially surgery). It may not stay as an article, but some bits might be useful for other pages. Materialscientist (talk) 04:27, 10 August 2009 (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.