Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Antibiotic use in cows

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The result was delete. Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 00:57, 1 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Antibiotic use in cows[edit]

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Context-free, non-neutral essay. Would require a complete rewrite to be acceptable. Salvageable data is redundant to material in antibiotic resistance. Danger (talk) 02:07, 24 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with Danger as to the current status of the article. However a quick google and cab abstracts search suggests that agricultural antibiotic use is under-represented in wikipedia, with only a small paragraph in cattle feed & a mention in antibiotic resistance (plus a few odds and sodds elsewhere such as manure). A google search seems to indicate that antibiotic use is politically sensitive, and as it stands wikipedia is not a good place to glean actual facts on the matter. I would suggest the creation of a broader article such as 'antibiotic use in animal production', covering matters such as relationship between feed and need for ab's, withholding periods and risks. Clovis Sangrail (talk) 02:27, 24 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Clearly the topic is notable and deserves more coverage. I think, however, that it is better for the encyclopedia to have no devoted article than a strongly biased stub. --Danger (talk) 03:00, 24 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete -- While the topic is clearly notable, this is a completely useless article with no salvageable content. Andrea105 (talk) 03:07, 24 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete -- Fair enough. I'm happy to delete, though I think it'd be worth putting in a request for article (I'm no expert in the field).Clovis Sangrail (talk) 03:12, 24 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Close enough to G11 - would require a complete rewrite to become encyclopedic. Closing admin - do offer to userfy if the user wants to work on it, though, as this was just created today. Ray^Talk 04:45, 24 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions. -- Ray^Talk 04:45, 24 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete We already have an article on antibiotic resistance which covers this subject matter and the only source in this article that is up for deletion is not particularly great so nothing worth merging.--Literaturegeek | T@1k? 08:58, 24 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Duplication/forking. May be recreated in the more general context of an article about antibiotics as a form of growth enhancement, which is not limited to cattle. JFW | T@lk 21:08, 24 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Needs significant improvement, interesting subject though 137.73.68.56 (talk) 12:55, 26 November 2009 (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.