Talk:Lourdes Medical Bureau
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[edit] Points about this article
Just a couple of points about this article. As it stands, about 90% of the text was written by me. There was originally a discussion about the Lourdes Medical Bureau in the article about Our Lady of Lourdes (where a line or two persists). I split this text out and created this article around it. This foundation text contained discussion of the individual cases, although the text was scrappy and many of the medical details were incorrect. It also contained the mystifying quote from Jacques Perrier, and a mention of Lourdes water.
The discussion of individual cases remains my least satisfactory part of this article, although I have left the list (and the Perrier quote) in out of respect to the original poster(s) of the material.
This article now contains information about the history, current administration and workings of the Lourdes Medical Bureau. By its nature, the Lourdes Medical Bureau does not seek celebrity or notoriety, and as a medical organisation has a duty of confidentiality to its subjects. Therefore it publishes very little, although printed material is circulated to its members concerning its activities. For this reason, printed references are comparatively few.
As a subset of WikiProject:France I think this article merits at least a 'B'-class.
The subject matter of this article deals with saints only tangentially, and therefore I am not certain that it belongs as a subset of WikiProject:Saints. However, it contains enough discussion of the relationship between the religious and medical authorities in Lourdes that I think that it merits a 'B'-class. I do not see how a Saints infobox could be pertinent.
I think that in each case, someone approaching this article would find valid, clear, unbiased and unambiguous information about the Lourdes Medical Bureau. Preacherdoc (talk) 11:56, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
