Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ferguson's Disease

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The result was Delete. (aeropagitica) 08:34, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ferguson's Disease

Probable hoax. I can find no medical literature referring to Molluscum Contagiosum as Ferguson's disease and the symptoms are different. There is no entry in the On-Line Medical Dictionary or the MedlinePlus: Medical Dictionary on Ferguson's disease. NORD - National Organization for Rare Disorders database has no entry of this name. No Google news stories relating to Ferguson's disease or a case of a rare disease in Clifton Heights. TimVickers 22:10, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

• Anonymous user 68.163.29.11 removed discussion of lack of references from article's talk page. TimVickers 21:59, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete In addition to the fine research above, there are no Google hits for "Dr. Herman Ferguson" [1] (the "dr." is necessary because the name alone brings up false positives), no hits for "Algagenic pruritus" [2], and the sole hit for "Ferguson's Disease" [3] is a lawsuit referring in general to a disease a man named Ferguson had. Note also that while the external link names appear to point to articles specific to this disease, the resulting webpages are to articles on Molluscum Contagiosum, in which the name of this article never appears. If this exists is it very rare indeed—so rare that WP:V seems impossible to satisfy.--Fuhghettaboutit 22:25, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Delete. Unquestionably a hoax. An uncurable contagious disease that results in systemic angiomas, CNS degeneration, and skin lesions so severe as to be a risk for "fatal bleeding" would be a topic of frenzied discussion in the medical community. Such a disease causing over a hundred deaths in a May 2006 outbreak and a confirmed US case would be front-page on the CDC and on the news (cf. media reaction to Ebola outbreaks -- and that didn't touch North America!). Serpent's Choice 11:11, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - Smells more than a little hoaxy. Can we speedy this, actually? I guess not – ClockworkSoul 17:37, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete As the person who brought this article to the attention of the Molecular and Cellular Biology WikiProject and despite looking ok, I was not happy with it for all the reasons mentioned by others above. I also received no reply from the initial editor on his talk page nor has he posted anything else since. Maybe I should have speedied it at the time, but I didn't! ww2censor 22:18, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

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.