Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Phasmophobia (2 nomination)


 * 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   redirect to Fear of ghosts. Any content actually verified by the sources can be pulled from the page history and merged. Beeblebrox (talk) 00:57, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

Phasmophobia
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Original research. Despite numerous references, which create appearance of well-referenced article, ho evidence beyond dictionary definition presented that there exist actual clinical cases of phobia. The whole text is basically repetition of what related to any specific phobias plus some some generic issues of  Fear of ghosts, which is a separate article, which deals with traditional fear of ghosts. By modern science it is an irrational fear, but not necessarily notable clinical phobia. For comparison, there is fear of black cats, but I would be surprised if someone writes the article blackcatophobia (or whatever it will be in Greek; not to be confused with ailurophobia). Please notice, I do no exclude that such clinical phobia exists, but the current article must be deleted as original research and replaced with redirect to fear of ghosts, where the dicdef is defined. Laudak (talk) 03:37, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions.  —• Gene93k (talk) 16:38, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Merge/Redirect to the existing Fear of ghosts, since Phasmophobia does appear as a defined term in some of the sources, plus others to be found online (though these are not necessarily reliable). This indicates to me that "Phasmophobia" is possibly a viable alternative moniker for "fear of ghosts," but not distinct enough to merit its own article. D OOMSDAYER 520  (Talk|Contribs) 17:01, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Fear of ghosts. Merge only statements immediately related to this fear/phobia. There is no reason to duplicate general information about specific phobias where a wikilink suffice. Timurite (talk) 00:18, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Merge/redirect as per Doom and Timurite. JFW | T@lk  16:57, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Fear of ghosts, merging any specific information that's relevant. Beware of the original research in the article while you're doing the merge. Eubulides (talk) 18:28, 9 March 2010 (UTC)


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