Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Podophobia


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The result was   delete all. Secret account 14:27, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Podophobia, Papaphobia, Pithikosophobia

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Dubuious phobias: "feet phobia", "Pope phobia", and "monkey phobia". While there are 281 hits for e.g. podophobia on google (of rather dubious veracity), there is none in Google books. Timurite (talk) 03:29, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

P.S. I looked through category:Phobias and I suspect there are other rather nonstandard phobias worth deletion. I will look thru them to double check and list them for deletion as well. Timurite (talk) 03:35, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Here are they (surprisingly, the rest seems OK in various deggree, with some requiring cleanup & refs): Nomatophobia, Ombrophobia, Scopophobia - in google books they are only dictionary defs, online they are found only in shrink websites which can cure you from any noun translated from English into Greek. While the three in the section header are definite candidates for deletion of equal "dubiosity", the remaining three have kind of more hits, so unless you vote to  delete them as well here, I will nominate them for deletion separately. Timurite (talk) 04:12, 30 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete all six. No evidence of clinial cases of the mentioned "phobias". A phobia-word may be coined from enery noun and verb. Twri (talk) 06:04, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete podophobia, papaphobia and pithikosophobia - no mentions in scholarly journals in ProQuest. Somno (talk) 06:19, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep scopophobia per and Nomatophobia per . (PMID are Pubmed references) Delete the others. A search for podophobia on Pubmed redirects to photophobia (didn't even know they had redirects. Papaphobia gets redirected to papa phobia (note the space) and an unrelated article. Searching for Ombrophobia and Pithikosophobia yields nothing. -Mgm|(talk) 10:52, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
 * is for vomitophobia, not for nomatophobia. There is no nomatophobia at PubMed. Also, scopophobia is a single hit in pubmed, and the word is used in the article only once, in a list, so no evidence of notability here. But like I said, I thought too that these cases require separate investigation. Timurite (talk) 18:26, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Ombrophobia, it should be written as Omrophobia or Obrophobia. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:51, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Doesn't make any difference, still don't get any hits. - Mgm|(talk) 09:44, 1 December 2008 (UTC)


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