Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mask fetishism


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.  

The result of the debate was KEEP. -Splash talk 01:10, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Mask fetishism
I came across this while scrubbing for unsourced images. While I'm sure there are mask fetishists out there, with sites on the internet to cater to their tastes and everything, I'm also sure there are fetishists who like to strap chicken livers on their chests, too. I did some googling for this and found 148 references to the phenomenon, many of which were wikipedia mirror sites. Fetishes almost by definition are unusual, but this particularly seem to me to be a sufficiently widespread fetish (compared to, say, Foot fetishism), and I am always aware of the likelihood of commercial trawling with this sort of thing. So I'm bringing it here. Nandesuka 03:02, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
 * My vote is delete, for now. If someone can come up with verifiable evidence that this is common or notable enough to be encyclopedic, I'd be willing to change my mind. Nandesuka 03:04, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep if someone wants to expand it to at least a stub. 139,000 Google hits  is fairly notable.  --Blackcats 03:16, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
 * What I find fascinating is that if you add "-site:wikipedia.org" to the query, you lose about 55,000 of those hits. Which is a pretty scary number.  If you also exclude the word "latex" from the search, you lose another 40,000 hits ("latex mask" fetishism is apparently a specific, different thing). Nandesuka 04:51, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I don't wanna accuse you of dishonesty, so assuming good faith, you apparently made some error in your search. When you eliminate all results from wikipedia.org you only lose around 3,000 out of the total of 138,000 .      Blackcats 06:27, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Here's the search string I used: .  From the results page: "Results 1 - 10 of about 83,800 for "mask fetish" -site:wikipedia.org. (0.09 seconds)".   If you get more results from that search string, maybe google loves you more than me :-) Nandesuka 11:58, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
 * When I run the same search from a different machine, I get 131,000 hits. So maybe google really does hate me. Nandesuka 15:20, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
 * PS - Do you have any evidence that "latex mask fetish" is not just a subset of "mask fetish"??? Blackcats 06:33, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Good point. I think that it would be a subset of both latex fetish and mask fetishism.  Kind of a combination perhaps?  We should make an article on latex mask fetish after this one passes its AFD. Zordrac  (talk) Wishy Washy  Darwikinian Eventualist 09:36, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - this seems non-notable to me. I'll change my vote to a Keep if the article actually gets some useful content (which I find kind of unlikely, but you never know).  --Cyde Weys talkcontribs 04:14, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep although it does need expansion. Is just as relevant as leather fetishism or foot fetish or anything else.  Perhaps not *quite* as common as those two, but getting there. Zordrac  (talk) Wishy Washy  Darwikinian Eventualist 05:12, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong keep as per Zordrac. Notable fetish. Grutness...wha?  06:51, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. per Zordrac. --Squiddy 11:29, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, though it definitely needs some TLC. SchuminWeb (Talk) 13:23, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with veil fetishism. That article seems to be talking about the same thing as this one. Roman Soldier 20:25, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
 * keep - Notable hobby, I added a BBC link about Mfetishism that went too far! I would say that veil fetishism should get merged/subsumed into this one - max rspct leave a message  21:25, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. -Tim Rhymeless (Er...let's shimmy) 10:25, 18 December 2005 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.