Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Allopathic medicine

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The result was withdrawn. Article has significantly improved (by reverting to an earlier version, apparently) during the AFD, so this is now moot. >Radiant< 08:22, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Allopathic medicine

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This article has way more "citation needed", "neutrality" and "not encyclopedic" tags than is healthy. It would appear to be primarily original research, and the remainder is already covered in allopathic and/or allopath. >Radiant< 14:09, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

• Keep allopathic is a disambiguation page, not an alternative article. Highly encyclopedic topic, despite flaws in writing style. This is the history of Western medicine. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 14:41, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
  • I'm sorry but how is that a dab page? It has quite a bit of content on the subject. >Radiant< 14:56, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
• Redirect to medicine. "Allopathic" is an extremely POV way of saying "non-alternative" and is not used in the scientific community. --Charlene 16:01, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
• Keep Lots of sources, lots of interesting, encyclopedic content. We should embrace this debate, not sweep it under the carpet by redirecting to another term. If some of the content is original research, that should be deleted. However it looks to me as though it simply lacks appropriate sources. JulesH 16:49, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
• Keep, the others are extremely short, redundant, and ought to be merged into this one. It needs a cleanup and refocusing on the term, its origins, and how it's something of a pejorative for mainstream medicine. Night Gyr (talk/Oy) 20:17, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
• Keep if cleaned up. There is a better version to revert to [1]. In the interest of improving the article, I restored it--it is basically the first part of the article as tagged. The second part shifts to an attack on it as compared to osteopathy, without giving any evidence for this definition. Altogether POV: "Allopathic organizations, like the AMA, have a history of attempting to discredit other forms of medicine, examples include chiropractic and osteopathic medicine." The content was an attempt to get a less balanced POV fork from Comparison_of_allopathic_and_osteopathic_medicine, itself a rather sketchy article. DGG (talk) 23:17, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
• Keep Well sourced article. What's the problem here? ~ Infrangible 01:24, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
• Keep. Interesting article, far in excess of a dictionary definition, and reasonably referenced. There are over 80 Medline hits, so it is currently used in the medical literature. Espresso Addict 05:11, 17 July 2007 (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.