Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/DR ABC

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 merge and redirect. —this is messedrocker (talk) 19:51, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] DR ABC

As somebody with an advanced knowledge of emergency medicine, I have never heard of DR ABC. The medical acronym ABC is much more common and the one used in modern first aid courses. In addition, the simplification and walkthrough of the article is not consistant with wikipedia's enclopedia goal. St.isaac 04:41, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

• Strong Keep this acronym is what is taught in first aid courses by the the ambulance services across Australia. Hell I have a little card with it on in my wallet. Viridae^Talk 04:51, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as how-to page/dict def. -- Koffieyahoo 05:06, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Under that criteria, ABC (first aid) should be deleted too. Neither page is a there as a how to giude, just an explanation of cencept. As I stated DRABC is very widely taught in Australia. (I would not be averse to a merge and redirect by the way, as long as DRABC was differentiated from ABCDE) Viridae^Talk 05:15, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
    • Correct, I think that ABC (first aid) should be deleted as well, but I also think that we should let this AfD run to completion first. -- Koffieyahoo 05:32, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
      • Well all of the first aid articles are like that for some reason. We just started a wikiproject to fix it. However, my point was that DR ABC isn't different enough from ABC to merit an article, or even mention. Its just a regional thing. I guess we could include a line in ABC, just like we do for ABCD or ABCDE. But still delete. St.isaac 06:13, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
        • Why are we here then? Why not simply merge and redirect? -- Koffieyahoo 06:24, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
• Merge both ABC (first aid) and DR ABC into Mnemonic or acrostic. These pages seem to be where this type of information is found, and I could not find any other mnemonics or acrostics with dedicated pages. Fopkins | Talk 06:18, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
• Merge both into Mnemonic with all of the other examples. --Daniel Olsen 06:40, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
• Merge and redirect to ABC (first aid). This is a procedure as well as a mnemonic; it doesn't belong with a list of ways to remember the names of the planets and so on. —Celithemis 07:54, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
• Merge with ABC (first aid) per Celithemis. Mnemonic is already chock full of examples, and this doesn't appear to be an acrostic.--Kchase T 08:40, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
• Merge — to ABC (first aid) - I was always taught DR ABC (in UK), and since we have ABC (first aid), there's no reason for DR ABC to be deleted. Martinp23 09:58, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
• Merge per above. Standard first aid procedure as taught by, for exampel St John Ambulance Australia. JPD (talk) 10:49, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
• Merge and redirect to ABC (first aid). Doctor Bruno 10:50, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
• Comment I am a member of St. John's Ambulance and it's the first thing they teach you in any of their resuscitation courses. Dev920 15:00, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
• Merge and redirect to ABC (first aid). This information does not require a stand-alone article, but I think ABC (first aid) does. I would definitely recommend addiing the information to that page as an alternate. --Siradia 21:41, 17 August 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.