Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Germ

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 of the debate was redirect to Microorganism. -- ( drini's page ☎ ) 20:25, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Germ

Delete and redirect to Microorganism. Germ as described here means nothing more than microorganism, its other meaning is discussed at germ cell, so in my opinion Germ (disambiguation) should be moved here and link to those articles and germ theory of disease. Dammit 23:19, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

• Redirect to Microorganism. _-M _o P-_ 23:26, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect As above. Beno1000 23:28, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
• Same General Eisenhower 23:32, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
• Comment. Nominator is proposing two contradictory things: having Germ be a redirect to Microorganism, and having Germ be the new location of the current Germ (disambiguation) page. Which is it? — Saxifrage ✎ 23:55, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Reply I think we should make Germ redirect to Microorganism, then have Germ redirects here. For other meanings, see Germ (disambiguation). at the top of the Microorganism page. _-M _o P-_ 23:57, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
    • I agree. Since there are other subjects on the dab page that aren't about the microorganism meaning of germ, it should have the "(disambiguation)" parenthetical "to avoid accidental links", according to Wikipedia:Disambiguation. — Saxifrage ✎ 00:09, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect to Microorganism and add appropriate links to Germ (disambiguation) and a dab toplink to Microorganism. Germ (disambiguation) should remain at its current title. — Saxifrage ✎ 00:09, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment, I indeed meant redir to microorganism, I pasted the rest from when I prod'ed the article and didn't read what I wrote anymore. The see Germ (disambiguation) is a good idea to add to too. - Dammit 00:13, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect per Sax --Deville (Talk) 01:28, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
• The above suggestions are all reasonable, but in my opinion the best solution would be to move Germ (disambiguation) to Germ, and replace the disambiguation page's link to Germ with three separate links: one to Germ theory of disease, one to Pathogen, and one to Microorganism. If someone is looking up "germ", I think it's hard to say what they're really looking for, but my guess would be that the pathogen and germ theory pages would be at least as likely to satisfy them as the microorganism page. --Allen 02:34, 29 April 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.