Talk:Hereditary equine regional dermal asthenia

General cutaneous asthenia article split

We need a general article at Cutaneous asthenia a.k.a. Dermal asthenia, both presently redirecting inappropriately to this horse-specific page. The condition affects other animals; e.g., it's one of the three leading causes of reports of "winged" cats, in which loose, damaged tissue hanging off the shoulder can flop as a cat runs and resemble flapping wings (other causes are supernumerary limb stubs projecting from the shoulders near the normal front legs, and (far more commonly than either other cause) loose mats of fur on the shoulders of long-haired feral cats). There's a relationship between cutaneous asthenia and human Ehlers–Danlos syndrome (EDS), and the EDS name is often applied to the veterinary condition. Some bits of info on CA/DA are in a dedicated section at the Winged cat article (where most of that material is off-topic, though with many high-quality sources, albeit not properly cited inline). I'm sure we could gather a lot more from veterinary sources, to also cover dogs, and other livestock than horses. It has also been observed in mink, cattle, and sheep, at the least. In cattle and sheep, it is called dermatosparaxis (which also inappropriately redirects to this horses-only article). The Ehlers–Danlos syndrome article does not mention CA/DA but perhaps it should.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  07:28, 26 August 2016 (UTC)

PS: An alternative, perhaps preferable, would be to re-scope and rename the present article, with horses being a section.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  11:39, 26 August 2016 (UTC)

• I commented at the Vet Med project page where you also posted this. I favor keeping this article as is, but perhaps un-redirecting cutaneous asthenia and dermal asthenia (and dermatosparaxis) to new, stand-alone articles. I'm all for expanding the scope of wikipedia. And, FWIW, this article needs an update to more recent research. Montanabw^(talk) 03:51, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

• There has been a feline cutaneous asthenia article since 2009. Should Cutaneous asthenia become a disambiguation page, and the disease information at Winged cat merged with the feline cutaneous asthenia page? DferDaisy (talk) 19:04, 16 July 2017 (UTC)
  • That might work. Whatever keeps it all clearest. Montanabw^(talk) 18:05, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

• I've started this by moving the general cutaneous asthenia paragraph from winged cat to the cutaneous asthenia page, and starting a stub which includes links to the relevant diseases in humans, horses and cats. Following this, I updated the "split" tag on the winged cat page to suggest that the remaining text is split to the feline cutaneous asthenia page (which I intend to do but not today). DferDaisy (talk) 03:23, 31 August 2017 (UTC)
  • Today I moved the specific feline disease information and list of case reports out of Winged cat to Feline cutaneous asthenia. Last loose end to this question is whether Dermal asthenia should redirect to Cutaneous asthenia rather than to the horse page? DferDaisy (talk) 20:46, 29 December 2017 (UTC)