Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Incorrect mask usage

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 redirect to Face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic#Correct handling and wearing of masks. Content can be merged from history if deemed helpful. Sandstein 10:54, 30 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Incorrect mask usage

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Mostly a content fork of Face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic that tags varying sources together to create a loosely tied list-like article. While there is some coverage of this, it is all in the context of the COVID pandemic (anything before would likely fall under WP:NOTMANUAL anyways). Curbon7 (talk) 00:23, 23 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Health and fitness-related deletion discussions. Curbon7 (talk) 00:23, 23 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of COVID-19-related deletion discussions. Curbon7 (talk) 00:23, 23 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Keep There is lots of coverage about this topic over the past year-and-a-half, clearly meeting the GNG. This article is not intended to be limited to being about COVID, but masks in all types of settings like healthcare and in other times in history when masks were recommended. And it is not a fork because it goes into details about different types of incorrect mask usage, with room for more. It is a stub now because it is a new article, but articles grow as they are edited by many people, and being a small article now is not grounds for deletion or merging. PatriceMO1 (talk) 00:52, 23 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per WP:NOTHOWTO and WP:OR. I don't doubt that a good article can be written on this topic meeting GNG, but the article at hand reads as a how-to guide with a good deal of non-encyclopedic content, for example, "public education campaigns can be used to help instruct the public on how to wear a mask correctly". Caleb Stanford (talk) 05:33, 23 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Change to Redirect and Selective Merge to Face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic#Correct handling and wearing of masks now that I am aware of this page. But please don't copy everything over and make it more encyclopedic. Caleb Stanford (talk) 13:51, 23 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic#Correct handling and wearing of masks. "Incorrect mask usage" isn't really a separate topic from that but rather a failure to comply with correct handling and wearing. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 05:39, 23 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect and Merge to Face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic#Correct handling and wearing of masks. I believe the information is worthy of being kept, but it doesn't need a separate article. It will need reformatting and a little condensing to be successfully merged. The "#Correct handling" section currently doesn't mention everything mentioned in this article, and it should. Fieari (talk) 07:41, 23 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic#Correct handling and wearing of masks per above. Topic is significant enough to be WP:PRESERVED but it doesn't need to be a separate article per WP:PAGEDECIDE. It's perfectly fine to include the information in the context of the Face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic article. Qwaiiplayer (talk) 13:30, 23 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect and Merge per above. PianoDan (talk) 18:00, 23 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Comment most of the merge suggestions here are based on the assumption this article exclusively is and is intended to be about the COVID-19 pandemic, which is recentism. Masks are not only a part of life in the COVID era, but also in many healthcare settings, in some countries where they are commonplace even when there is no pandemic, and they have been used historically during other pandemics. And wherever masks are a thing, improper usage is as well. Nursing textbooks go into it. PatriceMO1 (talk) 07:10, 24 December 2021 (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.