Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Peniaphobia


 * 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 delete. As in similar cases, reliable sources especially for medical topics is not optional.  Sandstein  07:19, 21 August 2016 (UTC)

Peniaphobia

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All legitimate scholarly references invoke one criminology paper which use the word in the title, and which means it in a non-clinical sense. That paper is referenced in the article, but mischaracterized. Everything else is the usual dictdef junk Mangoe (talk) 00:51, 13 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep, The term has 41,000 returns on google. Even more impressively, the concept is widely discussed even if not directly mentioned by the above term. Seeing as there is no equivalent entry on wikipedia, it would IMO be a huge loss to the wikipedia project goal which is to be the sum of all human knowledge. I think everyone knows at least one person who has a condition similar to this. Also, Wikipedia should in my opinion always give extra leeway to articles related to mental health issues and loosen restrictions and criterias. This s because even experts and professionals in medical fields will acknowledge that research in many mental health fields are still in their primary stages. Additionally funding for such research frequently is limited at best. Pwolit iets (talk) 12:39, 13 August 2016 (UTC)
 * many google returns is invalid argument. Did you happen to look into them? You have to cite meaningful returns. And your opinions about wikipedia disagree with consensus among wikipedians Staszek Lem (talk) 20:21, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
 * delete - nonnotable neologism. People may fear of every noun, verb and adjective. There is even "wikipediaphobia" in the internets :)Staszek Lem (talk) 20:21, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 15:34, 18 August 2016 (UTC)

Just bullshit "fun with greek" and not something that should be in WP. Jytdog (talk) 15:43, 20 August 2016 (UTC)
 * delete and salt this is gobbledygook, which is what a badly-formatted-and-obviously-"borrowed"-from-somewhere-on-the-internet-and-never-actually-read ref from our article actually says. As the article is going to be deleted, I will add here the content I just added to the article using that ref: The term was used in a 1952 letter to the editor of the The American Journal of Psychiatry called "Gobbledygook In Psychiatric Writing" responding to a 1951 editorial of the same title, as an example of the article's title, along with the terms homilophobia (a fear of sermons), osphresiophilia (a "morbid fascination with odors"),  and necromimesis (acting as though dead).


 * 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.