Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chief complaint

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.--Kungfu Adam ^(talk) 13:47, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

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Violates WP:NOT by being a dictionary entry. This article cannot be expanded further - the topic is already covered in Medical history Adam Slack 19:32, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

• Send to Wiktionary or redirect back to Medical history. (Beware, there is a link there to Chief complaint.) Maybe I lack imagination, but I can't see this as am encyclopedia article on its own.20:07, 16 November 2006 (UTC) Cheers, :) Dlohcierekim 03:57, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Dicdef, but not even a good DicDef, thus not worth TransWikiing. Of the three external links listed, the first doesn't work, the third goes to a completely unrelated article, and the second goes to this definition: "The primary symptom that a patient states as the reason for seeking medical care", which is a lot better and more concise than the definition given in the article.Herostratus 03:51, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Neutral. There is not much substance here (though there could be). The fact that the article is so small suggests that anything that needs to be said could be said in the Medical history article. I voted for delete, with the option of resubmitting later if more material is created. I left a Talk message for User:AED, the creator of this article. EdJohnston 17:04, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Changed vote to Neutral given the changes in the article, and the additional comments that have come in. EdJohnston 23:49, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

• Keep and expand. I think the definition is accurate in that the chief complaint does not always involve a "complaint" or symptom. I have forwarded this to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Clinical medicine for further input. -AED 17:41, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, especially in light of today's expansion. --Arcadian 23:09, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, healthcare articles need to be able to link to this stub to clarify chief complaint for the reader. It needs to be expanded some, but it doesn't need to be complicated to be valuable. --Dematt 23:32, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. This concept is used in medicine and is valuable to have here. It just needs expanding and to be wikilinked more. -- Fyslee 05:34, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Neutral In light of the substanial changes, I withdraw by support for deletion. I'm not certain if the changes really belong in the article on epidemiology, however I accept that there is an arguement for having them in the chief complaint article as well Adam Slack 12:58, 22 November 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.