Talk:Mixed connective tissue disease

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Merger proposal

I propose that Overlap syndrome be merged into Mixed connective tissue disease. Both deal with the same ICD10 Code, but Overlap syndrome is a smaller article. Tenbergen (talk) 01:26, 26 October 2017 (UTC)

• Support a content merge. However, rather than the normal practice of creating a redirect following the merge, I'm going to suggest that the overlap syndrome page be turned into a WP:CONCEPTDAB page to cover "all" overlap syndromes; including: mixed connective tissue disease, polyangiitis overlap syndrome, autoimmune hepatitis + primary biliary cirrhosis,[1] Asthma-COPD,[2] COPD-OSA.[3] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Little pob (talk • contribs) 10:12, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
• Oppose a content merge. I essentially agree with Little pob but want to make it clear this shouldn't be a redirect. The term "overlap syndrome" is also regularly used in other medical fields. I have amended the article to reflect the use of "Overlap syndrome" in cardiology but will leave it open to others to add examples of the use of this term in other fields such as those mentioned by Little pob e.g. COPD / asthma etc. PeaBrainC (talk) 08:56, 13 July 2018 (UTC)
• Oppose, per PeaBranC's rationale and edits, which seem to flesh out the overlap syndrome concept. If this term is not exclusively used for mixed connective tissue disease, then they should not be treated as the same topic unless it is overwhelmingly understood to describe this disease. No prejudice against creating a redirect like overlap syndrome (connective tissue). —Ost (talk) 17:43, 26 October 2018 (UTC)