Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Macrophobia

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.  Sandstein  07:15, 27 August 2016 (UTC)

Macrophobia

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Most uses of this are for generic non-clinical fear of bigness. Take those out and what's left are the usual lists of every Greek root plus "-phobia" unreliable sources. Mangoe (talk) 22:31, 12 August 2016 (UTC)

• Keep. I have added some sourcing which seems to give the term a bit more credence. Laatmedaar (talk) 08:18, 16 August 2016 (UTC) Struck !vote by blocked sockpuppet — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 13:43, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
• delete utter nonsense. Staszek Lem (talk) 20:38, 17 August 2016 (UTC)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 12:24, 18 August 2016 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 07:30, 19 August 2016 (UTC)

• Delete No substantial sourced material beyond a WP:DICTDEF. OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 13:54, 19 August 2016 (UTC)
• delete and salt This is gobbledegook (see here) "fun with greek" and there are no MEDRS sources in pub med. There is one (!) ref from an Encyclopedia of Phobias, about which its editors say clearly: "...we wanted to be inclusive rather than restrictive, and thus we were quite liberal in choosing entries. For example, some entries (such as fear of voodoo, magic, etc) are sociological in emphasis rather than psychological, in order to present a broad perspective.... The [book] is intended for lay readers and health care professionals." In other words, "we included a lot of garbage that circulates on the internet so we could sell more books." Per our current List of phobias article which will hopefully soon be deleted, "A large number of -phobia lists circulate on the Internet, with words collected from indiscriminate sources, often copying each other. Also, a number of psychiatric websites exist that at the first glance cover a huge number of phobias, but in fact use a standard text to fit any phobia and reuse it for all unusual phobias by merely changing the name. Sometimes it leads to bizarre results, such as suggestions to cure "prostitute phobia". Such practice is known as content spamming and is used to attract search engines."

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- Jytdog (talk) 16:20, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

• Delete for all of the reasons already given. —PermStrump(talk) 22:58, 25 August 2016 (UTC)

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.