Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Polyphobia


 * 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. – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 02:15, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Polyphobia

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Dicdef at best, unverifiable neologism at worst. Vidkun (talk) 13:04, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * This AfD nomination was incomplete (missing step 3). It is listed now. DumbBOT (talk) 13:06, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks, my bad.--Vidkun (talk) 17:14, 9 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete "Poly" literally means many, so the claim it refers to polyamory-something pretty much says that the phobia is only named after an indiscriminate part of the word it refers to which is utter bullocks. Compared with this page I'm confident it's a hoax. Someone might want to write about it, but this definitely needs to be deleted from the history. (PS. Pubmed came up empty and tried to redirect me to polyphagia, so I'm not that confident about the wrongdiagnosis.com link either) - Mgm|(talk) 20:39, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment The Psychiatric dictionary has an entry as "fear of many things", as has a Springer press medical dictionary and some other science books as well (example). Google Books also turns up a few hits for the word as described in the article, but this is more "fringe" I think. I'm not sure how to proceed, perhaps transwiki to Wiktionary? Hekerui (talk) 00:35, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment There's nothing to transwiki to wiktionary - it's a neologism, attempting to assert that things similar to the characteristics of homophobia also occur in regards to polyamory. It may be true, but is it verifiable?--Vidkun (talk) 12:33, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 00:13, 16 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete as a WP:NEO as written; or, rewrite in terms of the recognized phobia mentioned above. JJL (talk) 00:19, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete neo. Clearly.Bali ultimate (talk) 00:51, 16 April 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.