Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Diabetes (disambiguation)

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 keep. T. Canens (talk) 14:56, 19 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Diabetes (disambiguation)[edit]

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With diabetes mellitus now moved to diabetes with a redirect in place, and a hatnote showing diabetes insipidus, this disambiguation page has ceased to be useful and duplicates content from diabetes. I suggest it is deleted altogether. I will remove the single contender for disambiguation, which is Diabetes (journal). JFW | T@lk 11:54, 12 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Health and fitness-related deletion discussions. JFW | T@lk 11:54, 12 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. The page could probably benefit from a little bit of trimming, but it is a dab page, meant to assist readers in finding the particular type of diabetes they are wanting to research, it isn't meant to fill the same role as the article. As such, it is obviously useful, but more importantly, diabetes is such a generic term for so many diseases, a dab page is surely called for to aid in navigation for readers looking for something *besides* diabetes mellitus. Otherwise, you are forcing readers to have to read the entire diabetes mellitus (now named diabetes) page to find the *other* types of diabetes they are looking for. Dennis Brown - 2¢ 12:06, 12 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Disambiguations-related deletion discussions. 94rain ^Talk 13:03, 12 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. There are so many partial matches on this page that it is more akin to a portal than a disambiguation page. SpinningSpark 13:49, 12 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - helpful for general public upon initial arrival to the pedia, whereas the portals and categories are for further research. ^Atsme _Talk 📧 15:23, 12 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- The general public won't find this, because nothing links to it. They will find diabetes instead. JFW | T@lk 20:58, 13 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, clearly, it's a well-constructed index page, it just happens not (99%) to be a disambiguation page. Chiswick Chap (talk) 18:17, 12 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, but rename to Index of diabetes articles which is what it actually is. SpinningSpark 18:37, 12 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Merge This list is not notable enough to be its own article, but it could be merged with Diabetes. Syndicater (talk) 01:31, 13 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- Almost everything listed on this page is already mentioned there, so merge should be easy. JFW | T@lk 20:58, 13 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  - That is missing the point that an index page is clearly useful here, as stated repeatedly above. Chiswick Chap (talk) 21:13, 13 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep nothing wrong with this dab page. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 20:06, 13 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. It might better be called a set index page; however, the so-called partial-title matches are not, not really. It's like the Mississippi River, which is found at Mississippi (disambiguation). That's not a PTM because the river can be referred to as just "the Mississippi". Same with most of those (so-called) PTMs on this dab page, which can be referred to as just "diabetes". At any rate, this was a pretty good page when I created it 8 years ago, and it has only gotten better thanks to several other editors. Now that DM has been moved to Diabetes, there probably should be a hatnote at that new title that links to this dab page, instead of just to the DI page. Paine Ellsworth, ed. ^put'r there 23:53, 13 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep but possibly move, as it seems like more than a simple dab page. I notice there's a similar article with narrower scope at Outline of diabetes (it only covers diabetes mellitus). – Reidgreg (talk) 21:21, 14 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Not a valid justification for deletion. This is a useful disambig. My very best wishes (talk) 02:36, 15 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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.