Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Carers

Carers

WP:NOT a dictionary; possibly merge with Care. Current content of article reads like a government info leaflet. Walton monarchist89 18:18, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Merge with voluntary caregiver. There's some interesting and pertinent information there; it's perhaps better off in the extensive VC article that already exists. DanielEng 09:43, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm uncertain about this - its once again a question of different vocabularies both sides of the Atlantic - I have been a carer for 15 years but would never have found voluntary caregiver without my own stub being nominated immediately for deletion, which hasnt happened to me before and is a bit scary ;-) voluntary caregiver is a purely American term, the British equivalent is "carer" - or more controversially "informal carer" but "carers" is again slightly different - used very commonly in the UK to define the range of organisations and legislation affecting the individual "voluntary caregiver" Anyway, it's a huge and complex subject and each country has very different legislation and cicumstances. Why not have a single short generic article , and then separate links to articles for UK Carers, US Voluntary Caregivers etc etc? Excalibur 10:34, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Merge. Voluntary caregiver should be merged into this article, which should be renamed to Carer. The reason that I'm advocating it be merged this way and not the other way round is that a google search for [ carer] returns 1,200,000 hits, while [ "voluntary caregiver] only returns 359. I've also sourced the article. Ultra-Loser ^{[ T ] [ C ]} 02:35, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]