Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pyrexiophobia

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. MBisanz ^talk 02:35, 27 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Pyrexiophobia

Dicdef of a fairly nonnotable specific phobia, one of thousands things a person may fear. Unlike, say, claustrophobia or some others, no notable research exists and the term is found only in phobia lists, dictionaries, and in unscrupulous websites, see -phobia#Phobia lists for some amusing examples. `'Míkka >t 05:27, 21 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete needs specific sources Spartaz ^Humbug! 05:37, 21 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Per mikkalai. I don't think this is a notable enough phobia to have its own article. The phobia list provided by mikkalai works fine. Beano (talk) 05:54, 21 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Assuming that it is valid (it looks like it is), it should atleast be added somewhere on of the lists at -phobia and redirected there. --brew crewer (yada, yada) 15:57, 21 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Add to phobia list and redirect - In it's current form it's essentially a WP:DICDEF, however it is a valid phobia. "Content spamming" may be a problem with phobias and the internet, however it surely didn't influence books written before the internet, as we know it, existed. ~ User:Ameliorate! ^{(with the !) (talk)} 13:27, 22 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Please prove that there is a valid phobia by providing reference to actual reported medical case. Word coinage may happen without actual thing to exist. `'Míkka>t 21:49, 22 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  - "The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth ..." Is it a verifiable illness that is listed in numerous sources that were published substantial periods of time ago? Yes. Is it a 'real' phobia? We don't care. ~ User:Ameliorate! ^{(with the !) (talk)} 21:55, 22 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    - It is verifiable that someone coined the word. It is not verifiable so far that someone actually was diagnosed wth this illness. Therefore, basing on the existing evidence, at best this word belongs to wiktionary, but not ot encyclopedia. `'Míkka >t 15:31, 23 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Transwiki to wiktionary, per mikka. Hardly a real disease, just a word. Timurite (talk) 15:35, 23 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I believe the standard that we should follow with these specific phobias is: "Are there sources that would allow expansion beyond a dicdef (with content that does not merely duplicate the definition of a specific phobia)?" If not, the article doesn't belong on Wikipedia, and should probably be transwikied to Wiktionary. (Alternatively, it might be possible to start a list of specific phobias and redirect these to it, but then we'd have to come up with inclusion criteria for it.) Of course, there's no prejudice against recreation if someone comes up with a source that discusses this particular phobia in detail. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 16:52, 25 October 2008 (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.