Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Neilasparophobia


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The result was   delete. Davewild (talk) 10:04, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Neilasparophobia

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I can't find any reliable sources for this - there are plenty of Google hits, but every one I've looked at has been a blog, or a Q&A site, or similar, so I wonder if it's some sort of set-up hoax? Zero hits on Google News, Books or Scholar. -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 03:27, 8 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Not a hoax at all! Look up "What is the fear of Aliens?" Then you will find out, that there it is! --Alienfreak4life (talk) 03:30, 8 January 2011 (UTC) — Alienfreak4life (talk&#32;• contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * Can you provide a reliable source for the answer, as per WP:RS? -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 03:32, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment Isn't the fear of aliens xenophobia?--v/r - TP 03:33, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I think that's just aliens as in "strangers" or "foreigners", not the X-Files outer-space kind. -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 03:36, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I did a little bit of googling, as Alienfreak4life suggested, and everything I could find pointed to xenophobia. I have a feeling that the broad definition of xenophobia is meant to include aliens, but heck I'm not an expert.--v/r - TP 03:39, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Infact, this List_of_phobias specifically includes aliens as Xenophobia.--v/r - TP 03:41, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Yep, "aliens", but what does it mean by that - "a resident born in or belonging to another country", or an "extra-terrestrial", or maybe both? Extra-terrestrial is what Neilasparophobia is alleged to refer to. If you Google for "fear of extraterrestrials", you find a few Q&As, and some people speculating that it is "Xenophobia", but I can't find any reliable sources. -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 09:21, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Oh, and one of the things that makes me think it's a hoax is that the first 5 letters, "Neila" is "Alien" backwards, and if you Google "parophobia", you find hits that say it's a fear of sexual perversion. -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 09:27, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I noticed the backwards thing too. Good on you to google Parophobia, I didn't think to do that.--v/r - TP 14:18, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete, obvious hoax. Even if it's famous on the Internet, it's still a hoax. J I P  &#124; Talk 14:45, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete 178 Google hits. It's the Diet Coke of evil things on the internet, 178 hits, not evil enough.   Besides, who wants to spell out neilasparophobia?  Mandsford 22:30, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:48, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete Lacks verification. --MelanieN (talk) 23:09, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I can find a couple of sources saying that, at least as a science fiction theme, fear of aliens is indeed simply xenophobia (as of course the root of the word &mdash; ξένος, translated to Latin as alienigena, by Johann Friedrich Schleusner, which is in turn the root of alien in Middle English &mdash; suggests). Uncle G (talk) 14:20, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
 * It should be a word. Perhaps Wiktionary would take it. Aymatth2 (talk) 19:31, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Well I really did see it on Wiki Answers, no joke. --Alienfreak4life (talk) 05:29, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Crank down the credulity level with what you read on the WWW. Do what is stated at User:Uncle G/On sources and content.  Was the person who wrote that named?  No, xe wasn't.  Can you identify that xe has credentials or expertise in the subject and a good reputation for fact checking and accuracy?  No, you cannot.  Was it fact checked or peer reviewed before publication?  No, it's a self-submission WWW site. Uncle G (talk) 16:38, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
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