Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Insulin therapy

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The result of the debate was DELETE. Robert 16:14, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Insulin therapy

Overly general article title (insulin as a medication is already covered in insulin) - seems to be about some experimental treatment but fails to explain what kind, just says it isn't insulin potentiation therapy; copies text of a newspaper article which provides no details. ←Hob 20:43, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

• Delete per nomination. ←Hob 20:43, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep this phrase shows up a lot on PubMed (4192 on my search). This is a bit confusing, because the article talks about insulin coma therapy, which is used on mentally ill patients (see [1] or Shock therapy). Or maybe this is the same thing as Intensive insulinotherapy. I'm confused. --best, kevin ···Kzollman | Talk··· 21:20, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
  • No, it's not intensive insulinotherapy - that's just a more frequently dosed version of standard insulin therapy for diabetes. This article is apparently referring to a single experimental cancer treatment that a single company was using in Mexico, until the FTC shut them down[2], in which they induced insulin coma for unclear reasons. I don't think this is any more notable than any of the thousands of other quack cures out there, and it certainly shouldn't be described with the broad title "insulin therapy". If we keep the title, it should just be a redirect to insulin - or we could use it to split out the "insulin as a medication" section of that article. But the current content is totally misleading. (It's as if we had a radiation therapy article that only discussed "controversial" uses of radiation such as clipping toenails, tuning pianos, and bestowing superpowers.) ←Hob 21:34, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
    • Gotcha. I'd say to merge with BioPulse if we had an article on them. But it seems a little POV to start the article with this. I guess delete --best, kevin ···Kzollman | Talk··· 21:59, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
• Redirect to insulin. I would suggest a speedy on that by an admin since it appears that the bulk of the text may be more then fair use and hence a copyvio. Vegaswikian 05:48, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

• delete confused beyond repair. Whatever could be salvaged would belong under insulin, IMHO. Pete.Hurd 05:30, 3 October 2005 (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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.