Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Osteopathic medicine

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The result was delete and redirect to Osteopathy. Tone 07:53, 30 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Osteopathic medicine[edit]

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Apparent coatrack of Osteopathic medicine in the United States Doctor of Osteopathic Medicineand Osteopathy. The United States is noted for having a highly unusual situation compared to the rest of the world as regards Osteopathy - Osteopathy is basically in the same position as Chiropracty in the rest of the world, but in the United States - and ONLY in the United Stats, has a highly modified system of education roughly considered equivalent to an M.D. This article acts as if it's covering a worldwide view, but - other than one unsourced claim in the lead that attempts to draw an equivalence between America and the rest of the world - doesn't. That's the definition of a WP:COATRACK and WP:POVFORK. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 7.4% of all FPs} 00:11, 23 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 00:20, 23 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: it seems to be a WP:POVFORK of the articles mentioned in the nom. Bait30 ^{Talk 2 me pls?} 03:49, 23 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Merge and redirect to Osteopathy. Both countries which appear on page Osteopathic medicine (USA and Canada) are covered in subsection Regulation_and_legal_status of page Osteopathy. Hence this is a content fork of page Osteopathy (rather than any other page), and should be deleted or merged and redirected specifically to Osteopathy. My very best wishes (talk) 04:05, 23 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete and Redirect to Osteopathy, as a POVFORK we should not be merging anything, and it should be deleted before redirecting for the same reason. Devonian Wombat (talk) 07:55, 23 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete and Redirect to Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine. “Osteopathic medicine” is effectively medicine practised by DOs, and is adequately explained by that article, which also links to Osteopathic medicine in the United States and Comparison of MD and DO in the United States. I would tentatively support a redirect to the Osteopathic medicine in the United States article, but I think the DO article is more appropriate. Brunton (talk) 12:19, 25 August 2020 (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.