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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was keep. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 04:11, 1 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

List of medical abbreviations: A

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This page does not meet the minimum quality and sourcing requirements for medical information. All 26 of the pages in this set should be treated the same way; presumably they will be tagged in a day or so if this isn't a SNOW keep. User:力 (powera, π, ν) 00:33, 24 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions. User:力 (powera, π, ν) 00:33, 24 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 02:11, 24 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:NOTDICT. –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 03:03, 24 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep List of medical abbreviations and this article and all like it, all of them found in Category:Lists of medical abbreviations, should be kept. You can click on any link and find the information in the main article. Any medical textbook should contain all of this information as well. This is clearly valid encyclopedic information. Dream Focus 03:20, 24 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep It is a Wikipedia glossary that would benefit from wikignoming rather than deletion. Thincat (talk) 11:27, 24 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, not sure how deleting this would benefit anybody—seems like a way to make it harder to find information. P Aculeius (talk) 13:04, 24 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep this is a glossary, not a dictionary, and AfD is WP:NOTCLEANUP Dronebogus (talk) 13:12, 24 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep This serves much the same purpose as Glossary of medicine. Explaining what terms or abbreviations mean does not constitute WP:Biomedical information, so the stronger sourcing requirements for medical content outlined at WP:MEDRS do not apply. If there are quality issues, deletion is not the way to address them. TompaDompa (talk) 13:38, 24 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Saying that AXR can be short for "abdominal X-ray" is not the kind of information for which WP:MEDRS comes into play. If the page said that such-and-such a condition is typically diagnosed by taking an abdominal X-ray, sure; this, no. The Wikipedia:Biomedical information supplemental page excludes Etymology and definitions from the scope of WP:MEDRS. XOR'easter (talk) 17:07, 24 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was redirect to Ectodermal dysplasia. ✗plicit 23:58, 23 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Dermoodontodysplasia

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Definitely a notable topic, but this article is one sentence with one reference that barely provides anything to the reader. Bsoyka (talk) 16:10, 16 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Health and fitness and Science. Bsoyka (talk) 16:10, 16 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Draftify as nominator: This certainly looks like a good topic to have an article on, but this article barely even counts as a stub if at all. The creator is still active on Wikipedia, even as an administrator, so I think some improvements are entirely possible in the draft space. Bsoyka (talk) 16:14, 16 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Ectodermal dysplasia as this is simply one of many variants. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 16:36, 16 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dodger67 (talk • contribs) 16:55, April 16, 2022 (UTC)
Redirect per above, or tag with Template:Stub or something similar. Afd is a bad choice for articles that are notable but need to be improved, and there is no need to clean up mainspace by draftifying something that could be fixed with a little effort. --Tryptofish (talk) 19:24, 16 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Ectodermal dysplasia as per above. Abysmal article, indeed. --Whiteguru (talk) 07:19, 17 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Deletion Review

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