Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of causes of fever

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The result was delete. Clear consensus to delete -- PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 01:33, 10 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

List of causes of fever

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A hodgepodge of information that could easily be addressed in fever with a better attempt at sourcing it to WP:MEDRS. Delete please. JFW | T@lk 08:42, 2 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep These lists should be kept, as they are useful lists of differntial diagnoses. Always think first of improving an article before you think of deleting it. Immunize (talk) 14:19, 2 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Although I think the inclusion criteria for such a list is somewhat clear, this list will become an unmanageable and useless repository of obscure diseases. In fact, a quick browse of the list suggests it may already be there. At the same time, I don't see how it can ever be complete. There is also a possible content fork issue, as the fever article already contains a differentials section, which should be appropriately expanded and referenced. If some of the content of this list can go in there, then that is fine. Also note this discussion regarding such articles: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Medicine#List_of_causes_of..._articles. PDCook (talk) 14:38, 2 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Strong delete. First, we're not a medical encyclopedia. Second, more than this can cause fever - which makes this, in my opinion, something that is more suited toward a category, if anything. --Dennis The Tiger (Rawr and stuff) 15:28, 2 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment. What's that suppose to mean? Wiki has a complete List of diseases and it's nowhere on the level this list is wrt sourcing. Sandman888 (talk) 17:17, 9 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

~~Actually, a category is not a bad idea at all.~~ PDCook (talk) 16:00, 2 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No, see Wikipedia:Overcategorization. Fever is not a defining characteristic of most illnesses. So it would be like a Category:Words containing the letter e -- Colin°^Talk 21:06, 2 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You're right. Removed my support for a category. PDCook (talk) 21:17, 2 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment It is extremely frusterating when other users continually break down your hard work. Immunize (talk) 15:53, 2 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Then you should have heeded the advice I've been giving you over the past couple of months. PDCook (talk) 16:00, 2 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete As per JFW. Graham Colm (talk) 16:10, 2 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Even though Wikipedia is a medical encyclopedia among many other types of encyclopedia, information in this format is not manageable and add little. Lists of this sort are not useful without context for each item in the list.Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 20:25, 2 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. About as useful as "List of words containing the letter e". As the fever article says, this is an extremely common symptom. The fever article already covers the important causes so there's nothing to merge. Colin°^Talk 21:06, 2 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 16:24, 2 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 16:25, 2 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete while its true that fever is a notable symptom of many diseases, its NOT true that fever needs having a list like this, as so many diseases and conditions bring on elevated temperature. its probably more notable to list infectious diseases that DONT cause fever. this doesnt seem to serve much of a purpose, certainly not for someone trying to research the origins of fever. maybe a short list of illnesses that often produce fatal fevers? basically, per colinMercurywoodrose (talk) 03:36, 3 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Fever is a non-specific symptom, which I don't think is best addressed by a laundry list of the 1,000+ diseases that might be associated with it. Additionally -- in the list of surmountable, but still irritating, problems that indicate the unmanageability of the list -- the definition of fever this page gives is wrong, and some of the listed causes don't actually produce fevers (they produce non-fever hyperthermias). WhatamIdoing (talk) 20:43, 4 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The current definition is my doing. I starting rewriting the intro based on the definition in the fever article, but then realized the list article was a bit of a hopeless case. So perhaps the definition in the fever article also needs to be changed. PDCook (talk) 20:48, 4 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

As of the last time I checked (weeks ago), the definition at fever was correct. An elevated body temperature is only a fever if that elevation is caused through a particular mechanism. Identically elevated temperatures through all other mechanisms are hyperthermias, not fevers. It is not merely a matter of the number on the thermometer. WhatamIdoing (talk) 23:51, 5 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete This hodgepodge is unencyclopedic beyond repair, and is useless to Wikipedia's readers.—Finell 01:00, 5 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I could have the list undergo a move to my userspace if needed. Immunize (talk) 15:33, 5 March 2010 (UTC) ^{Superscript text}[reply]

Delete. Unencyclopedic and it's not plausible that it could be fixed. Much better would be to improve Fever; if this results in a subarticle Causes of fever so much the better. Eubulides (talk) 18:40, 9 March 2010 (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.