Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Feigned madness

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 of the debate was - kept

Feigned madness

I can't see this going anywhere that isn't already covered in something like Insanity defense. I'm leaving a longer note on Talk:Feigned madness. Joyous 01:08, Nov 19, 2004 (UTC)

• Weak keep, as its different from insanity defense, but it needs work. —siroχo 03:39, Nov 19, 2004 (UTC)
• Weak delete: I agree that this is not really an insanity defense article. The current contents are all but useless, as it is simply a quote from Samuel, but various real and fictional people who pretend to be insane is worth discussing, but not really under this title. Also, I'm not sure that any title can really be useful and consistent to cover Odysseus and Yossarian, both. Perhaps a bit of the article on insanity could cover feigned madness as a literary trope. Geogre 04:18, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Extremely encyclopedic subject, quite distinctly from insanity defense, that must also reference the landmark Rosenhan experiment. Geogre: Insanity is the article on the legal concept: we want mental illness, which would be overloaded with a hefty new section on this subject. But "feigned madness" is a terrible title. Strong keep, and move... somewhere. Suggestions? Samaritan 06:12, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Either merge or move to a new title and list on cleanup, but a discussion of this could be encyclopedic. I seem to recall a few Greek myths as well. [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 06:46, Nov 19, 2004 (UTC)
  • Concur. And there is Hamlet, too. -- Jmabel | Talk 01:23, Nov 20, 2004 (UTC)
• Keep interesting, encyclopedic, and a good start. Kappa 10:15, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Might be profitably merged with factitious disorder, which seems to be the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders name for psychiatric malingering. -- Smerdis of Tlön 17:24, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Delete Doesn't seem to warrant its own article. DCEdwards1966 02:33, Nov 20, 2004 (UTC)
• Keep. For reasons stated by others that vote keep. --Dittaeva 20:45, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Keep - feigned madness may not necessarily be only a legal thing. - Ta bu shi da yu 02:33, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• delete- no rerason to keep it just because its encyclopedic, if its already coverd.

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.