Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of diseases and conditions with unusual features
We've given this article several months to come up with some non--violating criteria for inclusion, and it hasn't happened.  IMO, it hasn't happened because it can't happen:  despite assertions that we'll just follow the reliable sources, high-quality |medicine-related reliable sources simply don't provide a basis for inclusion.  Reliable sources frequently describe diseases as "rare" (which has several legal and technical definitions, depending on purpose and jurisdiction), but the meaning of "unusual" in the medical literature is decidedly different from what this sensationalistic article wants.  For example, leukemia normally presents with high white blood cell counts, but some less-common forms, and some less-common states, present with low white blood cell counts (called aleukemia).  Low WBC counts is an "unusual feature" of leukemia.  But the editors don't want leukemia in this article, because it's not a gruesome, grotesque, or sensational disease.  The bottom line is ''every single disease has unusual features'', from "the common cold can cause a fever, but it doesn't ''usually'' do so," on down the list.  This article wants to be Ripley's Believe It or Not, which I don't accept as a |proper reliable source for this purpose.  This article could maybe be transwikied to Wikibooks, but it ''cannot'' meet Wikipedia's basic  and  policies
— User:WhatamIdoing, 20:51, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:NOR||WP:MEDRS||WP:RS||WP:V||WP:NOR (Wikipedia:No original research)