Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of incurable diseases (2nd nomination)
The Google Scholar search is an actual argument against this list. If one checks the first page of search results for "incurable" and "untreatable diseases" (note that these don't mean the same thing), they mostly come across conditions that wouldn't make it to the list in question, either because the term is used to describe ''incurable cases'': cases or forms or subsets of diseases that are incurable, not actual, self-contained diseases (unresectable brain metastases are incurable, but they do not constitute a "disease"); or because the disease in question was untreatable in former eras of medicine; or because it refers to diseases that cannot be eradicated, yet are treatable. This highlights another problem of the list, how many different definitions of "incurable" one can work with. |An essay on the subject proposes as a test for the legitimacy of a list of X the question "if X itself is a legitimate encyclopedic topic that already has its own article". No such article as "Incurable disease" exists - and I would propose its deletion if it did - because it would have to cover so many definitions of the term that the article would lose its meaning, becoming something of a |chimera article. Medical literature can indeed describe a disease as incurable, but there is not such thing as the study of incurable diseases, or a book on it, as it is an extremely diverse topic. There is no actual question that this list answers
— User:NikosGouliaros, 13:18, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:LC||WP:CHIMERA (Wikipedia:Listcruft)