The result was Delete. After reading through this discussion I think that the consensus was clearly to delete, and the argument that this is an indiscriminate collection of information grouped in a way that is not used in the literature was compelling. Tim Vickers ( talk) 01:21, 18 August 2008 (UTC) reply
This orphaned article is a list of certain selected diseases based on a new editor's personal idea about their etiology being related, which is clearly forbidden by WP:OR and WP:SYNTH. The author -- who hasn't edited on Wikipedia since March -- admitted, in the course of various discussions, that his goal was to use the article as a place to collect information about certain diseases of interest to him, so that he would eventually be able to see a pattern and perhaps come up with new ideas about causes and treatments for these diseases. Various attempts to get him to clarify exactly which articles belonged in his list, what he meant by "unknown etiology", and so forth, all failed.
No articles link to this one, and I can't imagine why any would.
The previous AfD failed as being premature for an article that was under construction ( WP:HEY + WP:AGF). WhatamIdoing ( talk) 19:15, 12 August 2008 (UTC) reply
(outdent) sorry, I do appreciate the work gone into it..I am trying to think of a good analogy..but I can't. Anyway, the examples are so diverse that any common linkage is misleading. We have diseases of exclusion for which psychosomatic causes have been proposed (IBD), generela terms for non-diseases (gastroenteritis), etc. Inflammation is a very general reaction, and there are more differences than similarities for most of the conditions mentioned. I am trying to clarify so does that make sense? Cheers, Casliber ( talk · contribs) 04:36, 17 August 2008 (UTC) reply
The result was Delete. After reading through this discussion I think that the consensus was clearly to delete, and the argument that this is an indiscriminate collection of information grouped in a way that is not used in the literature was compelling. Tim Vickers ( talk) 01:21, 18 August 2008 (UTC) reply
This orphaned article is a list of certain selected diseases based on a new editor's personal idea about their etiology being related, which is clearly forbidden by WP:OR and WP:SYNTH. The author -- who hasn't edited on Wikipedia since March -- admitted, in the course of various discussions, that his goal was to use the article as a place to collect information about certain diseases of interest to him, so that he would eventually be able to see a pattern and perhaps come up with new ideas about causes and treatments for these diseases. Various attempts to get him to clarify exactly which articles belonged in his list, what he meant by "unknown etiology", and so forth, all failed.
No articles link to this one, and I can't imagine why any would.
The previous AfD failed as being premature for an article that was under construction ( WP:HEY + WP:AGF). WhatamIdoing ( talk) 19:15, 12 August 2008 (UTC) reply
(outdent) sorry, I do appreciate the work gone into it..I am trying to think of a good analogy..but I can't. Anyway, the examples are so diverse that any common linkage is misleading. We have diseases of exclusion for which psychosomatic causes have been proposed (IBD), generela terms for non-diseases (gastroenteritis), etc. Inflammation is a very general reaction, and there are more differences than similarities for most of the conditions mentioned. I am trying to clarify so does that make sense? Cheers, Casliber ( talk · contribs) 04:36, 17 August 2008 (UTC) reply