Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Melolagnia

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 06:54, 30 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Melolagnia[edit]

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If one were to remove the original research concerning Twelth Night, we would be left with a short dictionary definition. Google Books gives us a section in The Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices, and listed in Sex crimes and paraphilia without any significant information. Nothing compelling at Google Scholar. This topic is not notable enough for inclusion (WP:N). Marasmusine (talk) 14:43, 22 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to Paraphilia. Melolagnia is also known as Acousticophilia (which has already been deleted at AfD). This is the last opportunity of leaving any record of this condition in Paraphilia before it is erased from Wikipedia. Nipsonanomhmata ^(Talk) 16:15, 22 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
delete in the absence of any reliable sources it must be deleted.Rememberway (talk) 16:45, 22 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. No merge. As with the staggering majority of these "named" paraphilias, references consist apparently exclusively of entries in long lists of similar terms. In my opinion, such lists do not constitute reliable sources. There is substantial reason to believe that they consist largely of neologisms formed by iterating through lists of prefixes, or handed back and forth between similar publications. Neither melolagnia nor acousticophilia have any further presence in Google Scholar. Google Books searches reveal only one-off mentions and the above described lists of terms[1][2]. Simply put, this term has no currency that supports its inclusion, either as an article or a reference in a broader list. Serpent's Choice (talk) 17:32, 22 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 13:15, 27 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sexuality and gender-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 13:15, 27 April 2011 (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.