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Contents from old "Lumbar disc herniation" article

First comments: copyright problem?

This page is wholly copypasted from a copyrighted text. Was permission given? Should this be here? Further, even if it should be, it currently has absolutely no links to anything anywhere else in Wikipedia, nor does it explain what a lumbar disc is (I came across this page looking for that, because I don’t know). As it stands, the page is of limited usefulness at best to anyone without some amount of prior knowledge.

There is also a page on Lumbar disc disease which also explains little, though at least some, besides also being better structured, so I can now guess from its content what a lumbar disc is.

Seems like there needs to be a Lumbar disc page to subsume the content of both Lumbar disc herniation and Lumbar disc disease which should redirect there. (I guess it would be in Category Anatomy or something?)

I’m not knowledgable enough in either the subject or the exact Wikipedia process (although I’ve dove plenty of refactoring on other wikis) to take this upon myself, hence this discussion instead of just doing it.

— Aristotle 21:05, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for starting this discussion and pointing out that this was wholly copypasted from the website I work with, spine-health.com. Permission was not given to reprint the article. I wrote a new article on Lumbar disc herniation to help get this page started. I will keep working on this article to help make it more comprehensive, but hopefully this will be a helpful start.

To respond to your other question, this lumbar disc herniation page should not be combined with the lumbar disc disease page, as that page should include information on degenerative disc disease and differential diagnosis between lumbar disc herniation and degen disc disease. There is another page called Slipped disc which is also similar but should remain distinct, as the slipped disc page should include information on cervical and thoracic herniated discs (vs. just lumbar herniated discs).

Merge

Discuss the proposed merger here.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 23:01, 28 August 2006 (UTC)