Talk:Gamekeeper's thumb

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Obviously the amount of people getting injured from snapping the necks of small furry animals is minute compared to those getting the injury from skiing and occupation-related injury.. While this is a cute name for an article, it isn't justified. Where in the English-speaking world, outside of some parts' of the United Kingdom would a physician actually say "you have gatekeeper's thumb"? Note even if this title was kept, I am pretty sure "thumb" shouldn't be capitalized. Gamekeeper's Thumb has 6 Google hits, UCL tear has 300+. House of Scandal 22:03, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Hmm, I don't know if we're looking at the same google results. A google search for "Gamekeeper's Thumb" reveals many relevant pages, including eMedicine and about.com. The first result of "UCL tear" on google is the eMedicine page on Gamekeeper's Thumb. Gamekeeper's Thumb is much more well known. Consider a similar scenario with tennis elbow: Physicians aren't going to come and tell you "You have lateral epicondylitis!". They'll tell you simply that you have tennis elbow. PTO 00:57, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

I may have typed "gatekeeper's thumb" or something. But look at how many hits there are for "skier's thumb" (way more). I think we definately have to de-capitalize "thumb" regardless. I won't cause a ton of fuss about this is you want to keep "Gamekeeper's thumb" -- like I said, it's a cute article name. However, I bet someone with less appreciation for the quirky may raise an objection in the future. PS - I'm from Boston and most doctors here would say "lateral epicondylitis", but that doesn't represent a world view anymore than does "Gamekeeper's thumb", "Guinea pig strangler's phalanges" or whatever. (c: House of Scandal 01:11, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

I think Gamekeeper's Thumb should at least be moved to Skier's thumb and then have UCL tear redirect to it. I don't really care where this article gets moved to, as long as it still exists :D. I didn't intend for the name of the article to be cute originally; "Gatekeeper's Thumb" was the name that was listed at Wikipedia:Requested articles. PTO 01:21, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

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