Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Entamoeba coli

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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The result was keep as nomination withdrawn. Non-admin closure. Someguy1221 01:01, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Entamoeba coli

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All versions of this article (and the talk page) contained medical advice, so there is no non-advising version of the article to revert back to. Deletion of the article's edit history would probably violate GFDL, as content would exist without giving due credit. Andjam 23:27, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

  • Keep - species are WP:N. Your purposed reason for deletion is a editing issue - if you feel the second sentence in the article violates the "no medical advice" criterion, simply remove the sentence, not the entire article. -- MarcoTolo 00:04, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
  • So it'd be ok for medical advice to remain in the article history? Andjam 00:29, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
Comment If we had to delete an article every time someone added a phrase that could be construed as medical advice, most of the medicine-related articles on Wikipedia would have to be deleted and re-created (some of them daily) <grin>. The idea of "Wikipedia is not a source for medical advice" (as in Wikipedia:Medical_disclaimer) is essentially a guide to point out that an encyclopedia is not (nor ever can be) a replacement for a physician: individuals are all different, treatments change, etc. -- MarcoTolo 00:52, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep - Discussing the nature of an organism's infection is not medical advice. The reference I read from the CDC pointed out that though this organism is harmless other pathogenic organisms may have also been introduced during infection. Anynobody 00:36, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Withdrawing Maybe I was just a little frustrated that there wasn't some kind of notice board for these kinds of issues. Andjam 00:56, 11 August 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.