Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tuberculosis in popular culture


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The result was   Withdrawn per improvements.

Tuberculosis in popular culture

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Huge sprawling list of trivia. No sourcing found. No attempt has been made to turn this into a viable article. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 03:59, 9 June 2017 (UTC)


 * Keep. Of course you're right it's a messy list, but notability depends as you well know on the existence of multiple reliable sources, not their presence in the article (which btw actually does have quite a few sources, some even formatted as such; and if we include primary sources like operas, then there are several in the article). Whatever the article's state, here are some of the kinds of source that support the topic: Influence of Tuberculosis on the Work of Visual Artists (Leonardo, vol 14 issue 2 1981); The Impact Of Tuberculosis On History, Literature And Art (Medical History, vol 6 issue 4, 1962); The Romantic Disease: An Artistic Investigation of Tuberculosis, Watermans Art Center, 2014; Half in Love with Easeful Death: Tuberculosis in Literature (Pacific University); Tuberculosis throughout history: The Arts (USAID); Pulmonary Tuberculosis/In Literature and Art (McMaster University History of Diseases); this last names major films such as Bright Star (Jane Campion, 2009) and Camille (George Cukor, 1936), and lists some 20 novels by authors including Joseph Conrad and Erich Maria Remarque (so it's a suitable reliable secondary source for a list); it also mentions the TB Blues as a musical instance. There are many other such sources. Chiswick Chap (talk) 13:57, 9 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Popular culture-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 14:29, 9 June 2017 (UTC)
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 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Health and fitness-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 14:54, 9 June 2017 (UTC)


 * Keep Looking at all the Wikipedia articles that are "in popular culture" I'm surprised to see how many there are.  Odd to see the one about sharks listing every cartoon that sometimes had sharks in it.  Anyway, this article shows what major literary works used this as a plot device, as well as how common it appeared back when it was a major problem.  Shawn in Montreal has found reliable sources giving it coverage, so it meets the notability guidelines.   D r e a m Focus  03:40, 10 June 2017 (UTC)
 * The article is now fully restructured, supported by 32 reliable sources, and illustrated with major artworks that depict the disease. Hope you're pleased with the result. Chiswick Chap (talk) 14:38, 12 June 2017 (UTC)


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