Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of fictional characters with phobias


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The result was Delete. —Quarl (talk) 2007-02-08 10:25Z 

List of fictional characters with phobias

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Delete article. It is original research beyond repair. As written, it is a list of characters with things they're afraid of. The diagnostic term phobia is more specific than that. It requires much greater severity and more debilitating effects than most people realize. Basically, unless the characters are said to have been diagnosed with a phobic disorder, applying the label in this list invokes POV. Even if we changed the name to List of fictional characters diagnosed with phobic disorders, that wouldn't fix the current list. We could more easily start over from scratch than work our way through this whole list figuring out which item fits and which does not. Doczilla 21:31, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete, indiscriminate. Only a couple of characters possess phobias sufficient enough to substantially contribute to their notability, anyway.- Dmz5  *Edits**Talk* 22:36, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per Dmz5. JuJube 23:26, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete, WP:NOT with loads of original research. Krimpet 01:01, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete - The list does not seem to distinguish between an actual "phobia" and a run-of-the-mill fear of something. For example, I may fear burning my hand on a stove, but that does not give me a phobia of the stove or a phobia of being burned.  Because it is problematic, the list should be deleted.  Dr. Submillimeter 16:59, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete (probably) - converting it to characters with clinically-defined phobias seems like a better solution, but even so, I'm not sure it adds much, and feels like indiscriminate collection of information. (For example it includes homophobia, which is not a clinical "phobia", but the common term for disapprobation of same-sex behavior/identity.) But if someone came along with a good proposal for limiting & cleaning it up, I'd consider changing my mind on the value of the article/list. The proposal would need to include (a) defining; (b) weeding / paring; and (c) organizing by disorder, which might actually add some value to wikipedia's phobia articles. --lquilter 03:49, 5 February 2007 (UTC)


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