Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Oikophobia


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The result was   delete. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 23:02, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Oikophobia

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No expert evidence of existence of this phobia. The term does occur in some dictionaries, but one may coin a "phobia" therm from every noun. In other words, nothing beyond dictionary definition. Mukadderat (talk) 23:08, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
 * P.S. It may also be subjest to speedy deletion (copyvio), since it is cut and paste from answer.com. . Mukadderat (talk) 23:11, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Answers.com mirrors WP content. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire - past ops) 07:43, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
 * But not this page. When it mirrors wikipedia, it gives attribution. Mukadderat (talk) 16:47, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. Pseudolatin-a-phobia dictdeffiness that we don't need. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire - past ops) 07:43, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:NOTDICTIONARY. That's pseudo-Greek, AMiB. Actually, this article conflates two distinct definitions: The "fear of the home" sense does turn up in some dictionaries of psychology and psychiatry, but I'm not finding any substantive discussions of the putative disorder on which an article could be built; the sense in which it's "the direct opposite of Xenophobia" appears to be an unrelated coinage in a recent book by Roger Scruton. Googling also turns up evidence of a third sense—the word appears to have been employed, in a semi-jocular fashion, around the beginning of the nineteenth century to describe some people's penchant for foreign travel. I would suggest moving this to Wiktionary, which appears to lack a corresponding entry, but its content isn't really suitable in its present form. Deor (talk) 12:33, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
 * You learn something new every day. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire - past ops) 12:39, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Agreed with Deor: a number of occasional witticisms with different meanings noes not mare an encyclopedia entry. Mukadderat (talk) 16:50, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions.  —WhatamIdoing (talk) 18:49, 5 May 2009 (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.