Wikiquote:Votes for deletion/Teratoma

Teratoma
As I wrote on the talk page when this was created, while the quotes presented are certainly validly sourced quotes, is there anything on the page that is memorable or quotable? I would posit that it does not meet what is set forth in Quotability, especially the 5th and 6th factors (Is the quote particularly witty, pithy, wise, eloquent, or poignant? and Is the quote independently well known? Has it withstood, or is it likely to withstand, the test of time?). Having such extremely long pages that only quote from dry textbooks or medical journals is not IMHO what this project is supposed to be about. — UDScott (talk) 20:03, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

Vote closes: 21:00, 6 April 2024 (UTC)


 * Delete. ~ UDScott (talk) 20:03, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Keep. I don't know if Wikiquote has an equivalent to the ICU at Uncyclopedia, but this is a difficult page, not a bad one, and it is in need of some major changes, not deletion. What if instead of deleting all of it, someone shortened the page down to things they might actually say to someone at a party? I feel the textbooks do a good job of explaining what it is in general so we should keep those, while the medical journals focus too much on specific genes and results from a limited number of case studies so we could lose them. In terms of length, it's nowhere near as bad as the page for Roe v. Wade, the scientific language is just more difficult to understand compared to the terminology used in a legal journal. If the page is deleted doesn't it suggest that there is nothing worth saying about this subject? How can that be true when it's a particularly bad form of cancer? I know some subjects are easier to have a polite conversation about than others and this really isn't one of them, if you are discussing teratomas at a dinner party than you probably aren't getting invited back. The criticisms of the quality of this page apply equally well to the Use of fetal tissue in vaccine development and that is definitely something a lot of people discuss because of the recent Covid-19 pandemic. It's almost as if diseases are kind of hard to talk about to a general audience while sounding intelligent but not too intelligent. I would appreciate another editor's help instead of creating yet another page on a controversial reproductive health subject almost or entirely on my own, even if it's about to be deleted. The lack of communication I have with other editors is starting to get to me and impact the quality of my contributions, I don't know who the intended audience is anymore. I had assumed the community here would have contributed much more help to the abortion pages than they actually provided, I don't know what or whom you people actually care about. I add Wikipedia references because I trust Wikipedia's judgment, if it is good enough for Wikipedia than I assume there is at least an introduction or a conclusion worth adding to Wikiquote. CensoredScribe (talk) 16:17, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Delete No quotable quotes and "No potential to become a proper Wikiquote page," to cite WQ:Deletion policy. People have said quotable things on medical topics such as cancer, but a dry passage from a medical journal or textbook describing some specialized form of cancer is not "quotable." Furthermore, by collecting random items from medical journals into this article gives a false impression of providing medical advice. HouseOfChange (talk) 19:20, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Keep The article isn't doing any harm, and could be trimmed. I think there is some quotable material here. Ficaia (talk) 06:27, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Delete, for lack of quotability (one of Wikiquote's criteria). This material would be fine on a Wikipedia page; to put it here is simply a category mistake. Markjoseph125 (talk) 12:31, 30 April 2024 (UTC)