Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Glabermania


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The result was   delete. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 21:27, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Glabermania

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This seems to be a neologism. Other than the Wikipedia article, Google gets only one hit, from a doctor who purports to treat the condition, and Google Scholar gets no hits, indicating that the term is not used in the medical literature. A request to the author for sources that use the term has gone unanswered. Looie496 (talk) 18:47, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete Agreed.  This is a neologism and hasn't caught on yet.  I found only one reliable source:  (through google news).  If this later catches on, it will be used in more sources and we can recreate the page.  Cazort (talk) 21:53, 5 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom.  Chzz  ►  16:51, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  MBisanz  talk 00:28, 10 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete WP:NFT, WP:NEO Lets  drink  Tea  00:38, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. I'm inclined to make a weak call of hoax.  One of the first links - Glaber - is a redirect to author Rodulfus Glaber, indicating nothing on having a desire to be physically hairless.  On a Google search, the only other note I have is for the Naked Mole Rat (heterocephalus glaber), but dictionary definitions either point (in [answers.com]) to as a species in reference to H. glaber, and dictionary.com points back to the aformentioned Mr. Glaber.  In fact, links in general seem to point to Glaber as a surname.  Of the web links, the first is 404 compliant, and the second goes to a page that's been around possibly a year.  References below are all over the chart - for example, reference 2 indicates a desire to shave twice daily, but the article in question is about "Massive foreign object ingestion".  I see one on hirsuitism.  The article even goes in, hinting upon it as somewhat of a sexual fetish.  -- Dennis The Tiger   (Rawr and stuff) 02:09, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - per nom and Dennisthe2.  Math Cool  10  Sign here! 05:17, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. Only 16 hits on Google, and most of them aren't even in English.  I think I'd have to agree that it's a neologism.  Matt (talk) 00:37, 12 March 2009 (UTC)


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