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The result was merge to Suicide methods#Bleeding.  Sandstein  05:31, 28 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hesitation wound[edit]

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Wikipedia is not a dictionary. The sole reference is a long paper that contains this exact text: "Suicidal incised wounds are commonly, but not invariably, accompanied by parallel, shallow, tentative wounds, reflecting a testing of the weapons as well as the indecision so often present in suicidal acts. These tentative wounds, also referred to as hesitation wounds (emphasis mine), show a wide range of appearance between cases." A Google search uncovers a record company by the same name, as well as a few other mentions in forensics, but they all read like dictionary definitions - there appears to be no real coverage or significance that would allow this to meet WP:GNG. As a side note, the Facebook interest on the subject (which takes its text directly from this article) has zero likes. Interchangable|talk to me|what I've changed 22:36, 20 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions. — --Darkwind (talk) 05:11, 21 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Merge into Suicide_methods#Bleeding. There are several additional sources mentioning "tentative wound" in the same sense, but not near enough to assemble a separate article on this topic. Also add to Wiktionary. Dcoetzee 05:25, 21 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• keep adequately referenced, and Wikipedia can afford to have a short article like this. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 11:49, 21 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge per Dcoetzee. The term does seem to be in general use, per Google Scholar [1] [2] and PubMed [3]. However, these are all mentions, not significant explorations of the topic. There does not really seem to be any more to say about the subject than the current stub, which amounts to a definition and nothing more. --MelanieN (talk) 13:56, 21 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge per Dcoetzee and MelanieN. This is not even a stub, and would be nmore useful to our core readership in the context of also merging "tentative wound" into Suicide_methods#Bleeding. Bearian (talk) 18:12, 21 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• keep though it's possible that it should be moved to "hesitation marks." This is a notable topic especially given that with the explosion of evidence procedural dramas on TV (CSI, CSI: Miami, CSI: New York, CSI: Deerfield, WI, and so on) it's talked about more and more. In this case pop culture exposure really did create more substantial notability. HominidMachinae (talk) 00:09, 23 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge this is just a term that needs to be defined, and can be done adequately in the article on suicide.John Pack Lambert (talk) 05:51, 27 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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