Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Subcrepitant

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The result was redirect to Rales . EdJohnston (talk) 04:48, 12 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Subcrepitant[edit]

I'm AFD'ing per WP:NOTDICDEF. Would CSD, but I'd much rather get consensus on this. Thanks. ~Beano~^{(talk) (contribs)} 19:50, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

~~Delete~~. Complete contents: "Subcrepitant is a term used to grossly describe a lung that has been infected with a viral or other obligate intracellular pathogen. This pattern is commonly involved in pneumonitis." If true, this is a medical dictdef. --Lockley (talk) 20:02, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to rale per Uncle G's comment below. --Lockley (talk) 23:50, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It's also wrong. The actual things that are described as subcrepitant are râles. They can also be dry, moist, crackling, gurgling, coarse, fine, and sibilant. (I kid you not. There's a lecture in the 1861-12-07 American Medical Times by Austin Flint on all of this.) This sort of misleading article is what one gets from ignoring the Wikipedia:Naming conventions (adjectives). An adjective is not an article title. The best place to discuss this classification (the original sibilant/subcrepitant classification being an invention of René Laënnec) is of course in our article on râles, alongside all of the other types. Redirect, per our naming conventions. Uncle G (talk) 21:17, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 18:03, 8 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Dicdef, erroneous per Uncle G. JFW | T@lk 23:47, 8 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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