Talk:Walking pneumonia

Merge Proposal with Pneumonia

Reasons for merge:

• Significant information overlaps such as treatment, symptoms, pathology. Not information explaining differences.
• Walking pneumonia hasn't been significantly edited since its creation over 2 years ago.
• Walking pneumonia lacked references since its creation. It has external site references, but certainly no content with references for over a year now.
• Walking pneumonia has been stub for over 2 years.
• Previous discussion for merge didn't result in content for article; just debate about semantics of diagnosis, of which the umbrella term Pneumonia is clearly still agreed upon.
• Walking pneumonia as a term can redirect to the Pneumonia page.

It seems the article for walking pneumonia just doesn't warrant it's own article. It's a stub that provides little information and while the subject matter is notable enough to warrant it's own article eventually, it would probably receive more contributions and garner a larger audience on the Pneumonia article.

Please keep related comments threaded to this. Use ":" prior to your comment to Indicate threading. Please use a bolded Agree or Disagree to indicate stance and follow with your comment. Please use signatures. --68.77.23.42 (talk) 13:13, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

Misc. Discussion

Removed link to Heath Ledger article - this is not referenced in the article. If someone wants to place it in context, please feel free. Aaeamdar (talk) 18:53, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

I had this condition (along with quite a few others who got it) during boot camp in the U.S. marine corps. it was more of a "running" (lol) pnuemonia until they admitted me to the clinic - when I learned what it was. I assume closed in places (like a squad bay) around people from different parts of the country (like a training camp) are a good place to get it - in addition, it may also have been that my immune system was weak fighting off many other sicknesses (all recruits get sick a least a little bit) and the combat training in the cold rain lowering my body temperature. Regardless, I was in a medical readiness platoon for two to three weeks, I can't remember, until assigned to a new company. I had a cough for about 8 months after. They prescribed some strong antibiotics and some kind of breathing apparatus that I inhaled from to measure the strength of my breathing until it reached a suitable level. It seems I will never get rid of a short crackling noise (rale?) when im laying down and breathing shallowly (like when I fall asleep) - it's been over a year so I assume it's here to stay. exfacior

I've had it for about three month's now at first my doctor diagnosed it as asmatic like condition. The only thing it has affected is that i can't run with out feeling like i'm going to vomit. My doctor discovered it two days ago and prescribed anti-biotics and a poitent cough suppresent. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.246.57.61 (talk) 20:51, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Proposed deletion.

Reasons:

• It seems according to both the pneumonia article and the Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) that "walking pneumonia" is a secondary term still in use. It would seem more useful and appropriate to add on to CAP any unique details of walking pneumonia there.

• This article hasn't been significantly edited since its creation over 2 years ago.

• It's lacked references since its creation. It's been tagged as needing references for over half a year now and still doesn't have any.

--76.214.197.61 19:24, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

• I think you have some good points there, but Walking pneumonia generally refers to CAPs from specific organisms such as mycoplasma. I suppose we could merge the article as a subsection wtihin CAP. My thought is that this is a weak keep, and it definitely at least deserves an AfD process. Djma12 ^(talk) 04:06, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Fair enough! I'll propose a merge, and if there's no response, we'll put it up in AfD. --76.214.197.61 16:42, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Merger proposal

I'm proposing that the article walking pneumonia is merged with community-acquired pneumonia.

Reasons:

• Significant information overlaps such as

-Treatment

-Symptoms

-Pathology

• It seems according to both the pneumonia article and the Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) that "walking pneumonia" is a secondary term still in use. It would seem more useful and appropriate to add on to CAP any unique details of walking pneumonia there.
• Walking pneumonia hasn't been significantly edited since its creation over 2 years ago.
• Walking pneumonia lacked references since its creation. It's been tagged as needing references for over half a year now and still doesn't have any.

If there is a substantial difference between walking pneumonia and community-acquired pneumonia that would require it's own article, we could create the page later, but as it stands now it seems to be a better idea to combine with community-acquired pneumonia since the article is significantly more comprehensive and information overlaps. --76.214.197.61 17:00, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

It may be more meaningful to merge this article with atypical pneumonia rather than community acquired pneumonia. Just my two cents. Djma12 ^(talk) 03:40, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

I agree with Djma12. Walking pneumonia is a term that is used when discussing atypical pneumonias, which are one type of community acquired pneumonias. Merging walking pneumonia with CAP misleads the reader into thinking the two are synonymous, which they are not. CAP also includes pneumococcal pneumonia, which is definitely not a walking pneumonia. Although a "lay concept" as noted by InvictaHOG, walking pneumonia is still a term that is used interchangeably with atypical pneumonia and should be clarified appropriately, especially if someone thought that CAP was always a more benign condition than other pneumonias, as implied by the term walking pneumonia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.184.45.47 (talk) 16:48, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

I agree it should be merged, don't care what with. It's a lay concept which doesn't have much pathologic basis. InvictaHOG 06:48, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Walking pneumonia is a specific type of the broad pneumonia category According to what I can find, walking pneumonia is specifically diagnosed in cases of mycoplasma pneumonia only, not viral or bacterial pneumonia. Therefore, I think it warrants it's own page and the topic expanded based on this specification.Phaldor (talk) 19:49, 20 December 2007 (UTC) Bold text

Merging wouldn't really... be that great in my opinion because if you heard about "walking pneumonia" i'd search for "walking pneumonia" on wiki...not communal pneumonia (not sure if that was the exact proposed article but you get it)..Nisior (talk) 17:10, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

That's what redirects are for... ever type in something and it leads you to an article of a different name? For instance, if you search for House cat you get cat, but that certainly wouldn't warrant an article for them separately. --68.77.23.42 (talk) 13:13, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

obsolete

somehow the fact that this was an obsolete, lay term rather than a useful medical one was edited out of the article. I've replaced it, and removed the misinformation that it's only used in cases of mycoplasma pneumonia - just not true. I concur with the opinions above that this could be covered in about one sentence in the community acquired pneumonia article and ought to be merged. - Nunh-huh 02:24, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

The notion that lay terms in current, common use are obsolete is not NPOV, or else displays ignorance as to the meaning of the word "obsolete". "Walking pneumonia", while not a precise medical term, is by no means obsolete, witness the website http://www.walkingpneumonia.org/ ;-) and the fact that there is in fact no precise medical synonym for the term. I don't think there's any more reason to deprecate the term "walking pneumonia" and by calling it "obsolete" than there would be for saying the same about "Jerusalem artichoke". So I removed the inaccurate descriptor from the pertinent paragraph of the "Pneumonia" article. --Haruo (talk) 11:50, 5 March 2009 (UTC)