Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Obesophobia


 * 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 was   no consensus. (Non-administrator closure) NorthAmerica1000 04:03, 7 September 2014 (UTC)

Obesophobia

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Neither term (Obesophobia) nor (Pocrescophobia) is the subject of any secondary source. Article is a collection of material about similar subject matter that make it look like these terms are valid and notable medical ones - i.e. misrepresenting terms as notable ones. Not a DSM diagnosis either. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:17, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
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 * Delete. There are a number of websites that use the term "obesophobia". However none of these are reliable sources. None of the references provided are actually about obesophobia. They are mainly about anorexia nervosa. The term seems to be little more than a neologism. There is only one paper in PubMed that mentions it. This is a paper that is translated from Spanish&mdash;and it uses the term only in inverted commas. ("Fat phobia" is mentioned in a number of PubMed papers.) Reference 7 (Silversides, Have North Americans taken "fat phobia" too far?) actually does not seem to be listed in PubMed. Axl  ¤  [Talk]  13:41, 14 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Redirect to Fat Phobia Scale. The term gets 32 GScholar hits, not a lot. "Fat phobia" seems the more common term with 1,260 GScholar hits. Obesophobia is mentioned in articles about anorexia nervosa. While the term seems real and is used in RS, there are not the multiple in-depth independent RS needed for WP:GNG notability. It seems a plausible search term, however, so a redirect to Fat Phobia Scale, where fat phobia is talked about, seems the best option. We don't have an article on Fat phobia (currently also a redirect to Fat Phobia Scale) but probably should--such an article would be the best target for a redirect. --Mark viking (talk) 17:49, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:14, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Behavioural science-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:14, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Merge This article should be renamed Fat Phobia, and the contents of the article Fat Phobia Scale should become a section within it. This article has better references and takes a broader view than the scale. Once combined, there should be redirects from Obesophobia and Weight phobia to this article. If merge is decided I am willing to do a first pass. LaMona (talk) 17:27, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep The article has lots of problems, mostly in not using enough references and for having a confusing name, but I think it could be renamed to the popular term "Fat phobia" which does not have an article and which is well-covered in media. The content of this article seems to me to match the concept of fat phobia. One problem with this is that the article is actually about reflective fat phobia, or a person's own fear of becoming fat for negative results, and not discrimination against others. Fat phobia is not quite the right name for this; obesophobia probably is not the right name either. But if the content is backed by sources then it seems like a plausible topic for an article.  Blue Rasberry   (talk)  16:44, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Support merge, per 's proposal. This editorial suggestion seems to me to be an excellent one that effectively addresses some of the other disinterested considerations made above. Ultimately, these pages need to fit with Obesity. That topic is clearly a relevant one, and of course it mustn't appear to be pov-forked. Buon lavoro... (I hope) 109.156.203.204 (talk) 12:36, 5 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, j⚛e deckertalk 04:33, 22 August 2014 (UTC)



Added some reffs.The Northaptonshire pins (talk) 21:49, 24 August 2014 (UTC) 
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, NorthAmerica1000 00:52, 30 August 2014 (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.