Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Methyphobia (2nd nomination)


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The result was delete.  Sandstein  07:15, 27 August 2016 (UTC)

Methyphobia
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Shouldn't that be "ethylphobia"? Anyway, the usual results for these fake-clinical phobias: a handful of useless GScholar hits, nothing showing real clinical interest. Using "potophobia" (fear of things fit to drink?) doesn't improve matters. Mangoe (talk) 22:23, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 12:25, 18 August 2016 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 07:30, 19 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete. Even etymologically, this does not make sense. Ethanol -not methanol- is the drinkable type of alcohol. If this phobia existed, then it would make more sense to call it either alcoholophobia or ethanolophobia. In any case, no hits at all in pubmed, so very likely fails WP:MEDRS. --HyperGaruda (talk) 12:22, 19 August 2016 (UTC)
 * delete and salt This is gobbledegook (see here) "fun with greek" and there are no MEDRS sources. Per our current List of phobias article which will hopefully soon be deleted, "A large number of -phobia lists circulate on the Internet, with words collected from indiscriminate sources, often copying each other. Also, a number of psychiatric websites exist that at the first glance cover a huge number of phobias, but in fact use a standard text to fit any phobia and reuse it for all unusual phobias by merely changing the name. Sometimes it leads to bizarre results, such as suggestions to cure "prostitute phobia". Such practice is known as content spamming and is used to attract search engines."

- Jytdog (talk) 16:02, 20 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete. This article has a lack of sources. I could not find any in-depth coverage in any reliable sources. Nothing appears when searching PubMed. Drchriswilliams (talk) 16:50, 21 August 2016 (UTC)


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