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The result was merge‎ to Bland diet. as the nominator argues againat a redirect to BRAT diet. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 06:29, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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An article about a medical diet treatment. Dismally sourced, and flagged as such since its creation in 2010. I can't find any reference that remotely meets WP:MEDRS (everything online seems to be a mirror or rewording of this article). I asked for expert help on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine#CRAM diet to no effect. If this was in any way a notable treatment, surely there would be some worthwhile mention online for it. I don't think we should redir to the similar BRAT diet, which is much better sourced. -- Finlay McWalter··–·Talk 06:40, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions. Finlay McWalter··–·Talk 06:45, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge and redirect to BRAT diet. Specifically, a brief mention of CRAM's existence, which could be sourced to this book, would meet the Wikipedia:Editing policy goals of providing information, without needing enough sources to support a whole article. This could be a single sentence in BRAT diet#Alternatives, which already mentions the CRAM diet, and we could provide an equally brief description of the BRATTY diet sourced to this book. WhatamIdoing (talk) 15:26, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge and redirect to BRAT diet or bland diet, take your pick. It is primarily mentioned in unreliable sources (blogs and some fringe "medical" books). Besides the book linked by WhatamIdoing, the only RS I could find it mentioned in is this 2003 book on pediatric nursing[1] and an accompanying manual for an earlier edition of that book. I'm sure there are more mentions of it in similar medical books, but it's clearly not independently notable. I will note that the current mention of the CRAM diet in the Alternatives section of the BRAT diet article fails verification, and given that I can't find any sources that directly link/compare BRAT vs CRAM I think merging with the bland diet article is preferable. Ethmostigmus 🌿 (talk | contribs) 04:49, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  I've no objection to merging it into bland diet. Merging BRAT diet there would probably also be good. WhatamIdoing (talk) 05:15, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Quite interesting. I don’t oppose a Merge with the caveat that it could be re-created in the future with more research. Bearian (talk) 15:27, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge and redirect to BRAT diet or bland diet. Just based off a quick google search it is mostly talked about by unreliable sources. Right now it doesn't seem like there is enough sources to build an article on the topic. IntentionallyDense (talk) 05:33, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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