User talk:Dmistephen

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Proposed deletion of Disposophobia


The article Disposophobia has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * article title suggests this is promotional of a business

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Metropolitan90 (talk) 06:57, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

Hi Metropolitan90, How are you? I am unsure how you would like me to proceed with this. Mr. Alford owns the trademark & copyright for the word Disposophobia - Please see http://www.theplan.com/clegal.htm - Further verification can be provided.

It is not the same as Compulsive Hoarding. To mis-categorize it would be a huge error by Wikipedia.

Would this be sufficient verification? Should I remove the company name from the posting?

Thank you in advance for your help.


 * Hi Dmistephen--I'm not Metropolitan90, if you'd like an answer from him or her, you should leave a note on his talk page.  Good luck!  --joe deckertalk to me 19:09, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

Hi Joe. I am fine talking to you. It was just Metropolitan90 that contacted me initially. I don't mind who I speak to, as long as this issue is resolved.


 * It is logically impossible for me to "resolve" a dispute between Metropolitan90 and yourself. Only the two of you can do that.


 * However, and I'm sorry to say this, if you want my opinion as a sysop here on Wikipedia, I don't believe that the article on Disposophobia is likely to remain on WIkipedia. Whether or not the article discusses something that is the same as, or different than, compulsive hoarding isn't really relevant. The central problems, in my view, include (a) that the article is highly unlikely to meet our WP:NEO and WP:NOTDICT policies the way our community usually interprets them, and that (b) Metropolitan90 has a point that the way the article is written suggests that the existence of the article is intended as, more or less, an advertisement. Even if you were to fix the second problem (and "Hey, we have a trademark!" actually hurts your argument more than it helps with respect to that point.), I still believe that three weeks from now there's not going to be a separate article on Disposaphobia. When I look around for the high standard of coverage that WP:NEO requires, I don't see it.  It is possible, if you like, that the term could be mentioned (assuming it's well-sourced by independent references) at another relevant article if can find one, but it is my guess, in all honesty, you have a chance of meeting the usual requirements of our WP:NEO guideline. I like the term, I may use it in regular conversation tomorrow, but I don't see it having an encyclopedia article in the near future.
 * I am happy to talk about this more, if you do so at my talk page. Have a great week! --joe deckertalk to me 03:17, 11 May 2012 (UTC)