Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Spinal Cord Untethering

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The result of the debate was keep. --Tony Sidaway Talk 01:52, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

Spinal Cord Untethering
Non-notable. A google search comes up with 557 hits without quotes and only 117 with them. This just isn't enough to warrant an encyclopedia article. --Blackcap | talk 21:37, August 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep if it's a real medical procedure. This techical information is perfectly encyclopedic. We don't only do articles on pop culture. --Ryan Delaney talk 21:39, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. Mate, I wasn't objecting to this because it's not pop culture; I know WP has medicine in it. I was objecting to it because it's not a common enough medical procedure to warrant an article here. There does seem to be a condition called a "tethered spinal cord," which (from what I can tell) is a kind of spina bifida. If there's someone who knows spinal procedures well enough to comment on it more than this article says, maybe it could be put into the spina bifida article. Otherwise, it's just an unheard of medical procedure. --Blackcap | talk 22:13, August 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, 117 google hits. Kappa 22:19, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. A search on Google Scholar (highly recommended for this type of subject matter) yields 48 scholarly articles. Definitely a real procedure, and medical procedures strike me as inherently notable. Fernando Rizo T/C 23:06, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep per Fernando Rizo. I'd also suggest expanding the article (I've placed a medical-stub notice on it) and renaming it to spinal cord untethering. --Idont Havaname 01:00, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and rename per above vote. Christopher Parham (talk) 02:47, 2005 August 26 (UTC)
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