[WikiEN-l] Re: Culture glut

Fri Mar 11 09:18:27 UTC 2005

J.F. de Wolff wrote

> I would like to seek consensus on what kind of morbidity is worthy of 
> inclusion in articles. I would say: only if someone's morbidity has 
> *significantly* altered public perception of a disorder is this person 
> worth mentioning (e.g. [[Lou Gehrig]] and his eponymous disease; [[Stephen 
> Hawking]] would qualify for this as well). Otherwise, only the article *on 
> that person* should mention morbidity and mortality.

Reasonable.  In a sense it is not so important, either way, in most cases. 
Tuberculosis: there's a case where in a sense a historical list would be of 
considerable general interest.  The problem with historical listings is of 
course that the factuality of the diagnosis can be problematic.

Charles 