Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hadephobia


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The result was   delete. Spartaz Humbug! 16:11, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

Hadephobia

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No reliable sources (current source is a front to sell new-age self-help books), the term itself appears to have been made up by some self-appointed internet therapist one day by combining Greek stems (instead of doing actual scientific research and experimentation, and publishing it in a peer reviewed source). Ian.thomson (talk) 13:23, 3 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete Here it is in some weird book about phobias, An excess of phobias and manias: a compilation of anxieties, obsessions, and compulsions that push many over the edge of sanity by JG Robertson, 2003. Perhaps the article creator or that book's author did not make this up, but it is still WP:MADEUP.  Undoubtedly there are identified practitioners of certain religions who have an unhealthy fear of their god's hell, but this term so far as I can tell is not now and never has been applied by anyone notable treating that condition.  Blue Rasberry  03:22, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment I'm quite certain the article's creator was acting in good faith and did not make up the word himself, but the word does appear to be made up. The book you provided appears to be a self published source, as I didn't find anything on Google about "Senior Scribe Publications" except for a blog they maintain about how great the English language is. (...So why do their only printed publications appear to be books about neologisms? I enjoy neologisms, but half the fun is that they're not in dictionaries!) Ian.thomson (talk) 03:38, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
 * This AfD nomination was incomplete (missing step 3). It is listed now. DumbBOT (talk) 15:00, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment I didn't maje it up why would I make stuff up? I'm Catholic -.-, and second of all google it. You'll find entries. -Angel David (talk) 22:49, 5 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete for a lack of references in peer reviewed journals. Prsaucer1958 (talk) 18:43, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
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 * Transwiki to Wikidictionary. The term stygiophobia would probably be better, since this is listed as the alternative name for this phobia in Campbell's Psychiatric Dictionary link. However, not enough material exists to write anything past a bare definition. Tim Vickers (talk) 19:30, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
 * @Tim Vickers Either or just Move it to stygiophobia? -Angel David (talk) 22:46, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm afraid there are too few sources to write an encyclopaedia article from, see WP:NOTDIC. Tim Vickers (talk) 01:26, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
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