Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ecclesiophobia


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The result was delete.  Sandstein  07:54, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

Ecclesiophobia

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Another DICTDEF phobia article, this worse than most. The only source given is About.com, hardly anyone's idea of a reliable source. Searching finds metaphorical uses and "ecclesio+phobia" definitions but nothing to suggest that anyone actually has such a condition. Mangoe (talk) 17:00, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
 * delete no reliable medical sources . Staszek Lem (talk) 17:11, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 14:23, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Christianity-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 14:23, 17 August 2016 (UTC)


 * delete no MEDRS sources see linked search. Jytdog (talk) 16:45, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep as a reasonable search term. The Google Newspapers search, above, link to a 1977 medical advice column (apparently syndicated, because the same result shows verbatim in multiple newspapers) where an MD essentially coins the term.  There are three Google News references that use the term in a general or societal, rather than individual mental illness sense.  I think this article can be expanded with these references and recast as a neologism much like Hoplophobia, but I agree there is insufficient sourcing to portray it as a diagnosible mental illness. Jclemens (talk) 17:20, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia is not "find a word" - we are meant to communicate accepted knowledge not bullshit to the public. This is not a real phobia that we can discuss in any meaningful depth.  It is not even some widely held pseudoscience.  It is just wordplay in Greek.  Pop culture pseudopsychology garbage spewed by some talking head is not "accepted knowledge".  Jytdog (talk) 18:12, 17 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete Made-up term. Instaurare (talk) 04:42, 18 August 2016 (UTC)


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