Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Climacophobia


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The result was delete.  Sandstein  07:15, 27 August 2016 (UTC)

Climacophobia

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All material comes from an SPS; there's no trace of this in the medical literature. Mangoe (talk) 22:44, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep. I feel that this was nominated lazily. A quick glance at specialized search engines all came up with returns. At first I assumed this might be merged with bathmophobia since they are very similar, but then I realized climacophobia has roughly twice more traction. Clear keep in my opinion. Laatmedaar (talk) 07:36, 16 August 2016 (UTC) Struck !vote by blocked sockpuppet &mdash;  Rhododendrites  talk  \\ 13:41, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Comment There already is a phobia covering stairs, called Bathmophobia. I also found it a bit peculiar that usually the prefixes aren't sourced from English but this is. Mr. Magoo (talk) 12:15, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
 * It seems it's from Greek after all, from "klimax." I find it odd that klimax means a ladder or a staircase and bathmos means a step. The two seem to really overlap... Who came up with these? Which came first? Mr. Magoo (talk) 17:03, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
 * delete no reliable medical sources. Staszek Lem (talk) 20:40, 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 07:29, 19 August 2016 (UTC)
 * delete and salt This is gobbledegook (see here) "fun with greek" and there are no MEDRS sources in pub med.  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."

- Jytdog (talk) 16:24, 20 August 2016 (UTC)
 * delete - there are no reliable medical sources current used in this article. This is the sort of phrase that appears in "lists of phobias". Historical examples might include Kristol Irving's commentary on superstition from 1948 or this 1950 bmj book review. But there isn't any in-depth coverage presented here. Notability has not been established. Drchriswilliams (talk) 16:00, 21 August 2016 (UTC)


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