Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chirophobia

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete. As noted "being real" is not enough to have an article. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 05:40, 8 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Chirophobia

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Florence King once wrote of laughing at one of her dates when he said he'd been in hand-to-hand combat with a bear; her response—"the bear had hands?"—did not go over well. Anyway, even by the standards of made-up phobias this one doesn't leave much of a trace: only one of the six GScholar hits even seems to be about phobias at all, and it's the usual omnium-phobium junk book. Mangoe (talk) 12:50, 23 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Google Books shows that this is real.Borock (talk) 14:43, 23 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
It's definitely "real" in the sense that people can have a Specific phobia of literally anything. But the questions is, is there enough coverage of this term outside of defining it to warrant its own article apart from the one that already exists on specific phobias? I don't know yet as there are so many of these AfDs all at once that I haven't looked into this one yet, but my point is, let's not just keep it because it's "real". —PermStrump(talk) 04:50, 25 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Behavioural science-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 11:32, 24 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. There isn't enough coverage to offer more than dictionary definition. There's no indication that it has ever been used in a clinical sense, which is how the article presents it, and it doesn't meet WP:GNG as a social phenomenon like trypophobia or nomophobia because of the lack of in-depth coverage. —PermStrump(talk) 23:03, 25 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Delete / merge to List of phobias Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 20:56, 27 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Natg 19 (talk) 16:43, 31 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per WP:NAD. Ayub407^talk 19:29, 31 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.