Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Porphyrophobia

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. NW (Talk) 03:24, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

Porphyrophobia

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Is purple a special color that makes this phobia deserve a special article?? Any list of color phobias in general?? What is, for example, a phobia for the color green?? Georgia guy (talk) 19:14, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

• Delete - before edit conflict I was about to PROD it as "Only a dictionary definition". One ref is a dicdef in a list; the other is a spoof? item on a blog. PamD (talk) 19:19, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

• Delete - no sources, its not a spoof but rather an excerpt from a self help site where you choose your phobia and then its gets slotted into a stock article a la 'Happy Birthday (Enter name here)'. Clearly not a source. Bob House 884 (talk) 19:34, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

• Strong keep - This is a legitimate medical disorder as documented here. Whether or not other colors have similar phobia-related disorders is not relevant. There may or may not be something "special" about the color purple, but the fact is that Porphyrophobia is a mental disorder-- if other colors also have phobias, then they should have articles too. --Ashershow1_{talk•contribs} 23:55, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

Can anything be said about this specific color phobia other than "X is Y?" though? — Preceding unsigned comment added by HominidMachinae (talk • contribs) 00:30, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

Maybe not, but that is not a cause for deletion. A stub is a stub, and should not be penalized for being one. --Ashershow1_{talk•contribs} 00:46, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

Thats not a reliable source, nor is it a new source, its just a reprint of the same list of phobias on some of the other non-sources. Unless theres actual evidence that somebody has actually suffered from it, the only thing this article can be is a definition, and definitions go in dictionaries. Bob House 884 (talk) 02:33, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

• Delete It is not a legitimate medical disorder. It is not listed in the DSM-IV, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, which "covers all mental health disorders for both children and adults", nor is it a historical disorder. The sources cited are not reliable sources for mental disorders, nor is the one listed above by Ashershow1. Porphyrophobia is a "nice" sounding phobia from the Greek root πορφύρα (porphura), See Purple#Etymology and definitions, but there are lots of these made-up phobias. --Bejnar (talk) 00:26, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

• Delete - Article should be deleted on several grounds. First, it is simple a dictionary definition. It's nice to know what the word means, but the article does nothing to describe the phobia's characteristics. Second, this may well be a hoax. There are several websites that seem to treat it as a joke. The only legitimate reference I can find is that of track second track named "Porphyrophobia" on some obscure album. Another reference to word can be found on this website . But this site is for a "phobia treatment expert" who claims to be able to cure any type of phobia. Rotmo (talk) 04:33, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
• Keep. Yes, it's more than just purple. Since the wearers of purple are considered to be royalty in many cultures. There must be some decent references out there even if they are hidden under rocks.  Nipsonanomhmata  ^(Talk) 07:59, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
  • That might make purple notable but not Porphyrophobia Bob House 884 (talk) 13:33, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
• Delete There are -phobias for almost everything (except perhaps synchronised swimming). Most of them are rather 'made up', and I wouldn't really trust a site offering (in the commercial sense) hypnotherapy not to give as long a list as they could. (Not knocking them for it - business is business - but it's not necessarily highly reliable.) If this article (which almost gives new meaning to 'stub') actually told us something about it it might be of use here. As it is, there seems to be no entry on Wiktionary (the English version - there is a red-linked mention in a list at the Russian version), and possibly it could be transwikied if they want it there. Peridon (talk) 14:01, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
• Delete Clearly non-notable. If there were a single reference in a journal of psychiatry to a case study of a person who had actually been diagnosed with an irrational response to things purple, then that would be one thing. However, the only references are on word lists. It's kind of like, "There are no cases we're aware of where someone is afraid of ______, but if there were, then we would call it ____phobia." The lone sentence gets it a mention on list of phobias. Mandsford 21:36, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
• Comment: the complete Oxford English Dictionary doesn't recognise the word Porphyrophobia. PamD (talk) 22:41, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
• Comment - If about.com is any reliable source, then they do recognize porphyrophobia here. --Ashershow1_{talk•contribs} 23:15, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions. -- Danger (talk) 00:55, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

• Comment: I'm afraid it isn't here, because the author may well have lifted this from another of those lists. Many phobias are made up as jokes and somehow find their way onto lists of phobias. I've seen arachibutyrophobia on several such lists, claiming it's a fear of peanut butter sticking to one's mouth. However, it links here to a list of fake phobias. Without being in the Oxford English Dictionary nor the DSM-IV, I'm extremely skeptical. Kansan (talk) 03:01, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

• Delete. All "-phobia" stubs need the searchlight of notability applied to them. JFW | T@lk 06:30, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
• Delete - I concede that it's a valid word but to belong here it must have appeared in the medical literature, and the article must be sourced from it. - Richard Cavell (talk) 07:19, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

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