Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Convulsive therapy

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 delete. Implemented as a redirect to Electroconvulsive therapy, so as to make possible a merger of any sourced material. Creating a pure disambiguation page in this place is also possible. Sandstein (talk) 21:34, 25 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Convulsive therapy

Longstanding (June 07) requests for citation still unaddressed; these cover pretty much all content in the article. Nothing in there which is actually referenced. Verifiable content already exists in electroconvulsive therapy article. One two-word edit since August apart from proposed deletions. Linked from two other Wikipedia pages, Curare and Emergency psychiatry; trivial roles in both pages. Fundamentally, this page is a collection of unreferenced and frequently improbable claims which aren't verifiable. Nmg20 (talk) 12:16, 17 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Weak Keep Is there such a medicinal discipline. I can't source much info on the web, very little entries in other sources. I think we may been a parent article, only if the individual bullet points are in fact connected. Otherwise Delete. scope_creep (talk) 14:45, 18 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Weak delete and disambiguate I think Scope creep hit it on the head here. While convulsive therapy is a "parent term" for several seizure inducing procedures, I'm not sure medicine has its own field for convulsive therapy in general. I say delete the article and convert it into a disambiguation page with the list currently found in the methods section. Chupper (talk) 15:22, 18 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
delete If all uncited material was removed, the useable cited information remaining could easily be inserted into the ECT article. Beyond what has been written about ECT on this article, only the history of past procedures is noteworthy.--scuro (talk) 03:21, 19 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Just to respond to the "is there such a medicinal discipline" question above - no, definitely not. The only form of 'convulsive therapy' currently used is ECT, and the others are essentially historical curios: none have to my knowledge ever been part of the medical mainstream. Perhaps the best evidence for this is that the journal titled 'convulsive therapy' renamed itself in 1996 to 'the Journal of ECT': that's the only relevant type to modern medicine. Nmg20 (talk) 19:27, 19 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Keep The only properly referenced part of this article is the last three dot points under Methods, which deal with techniques of inducing convulsion by injecting chemicals. Yes, these are history now, but still worth a mention. If this material is relocated to the Insulin shock therapy article, which would be more appropriately called 'Pharmacological shock therapy' as various chemicals were used, then Convulsive therapy could be deleted. DavidCooke (talk) 22:56, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. The article is informative and sourced in general. Presence of a few unsourced statements is not a reason for deletion.Biophys (talk) 04:30, 23 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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.