Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pupaphobia


 * 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. Kurykh (talk) 19:15, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

Pupaphobia

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No reliable medical sources exist (WP:MEDRS). Tagged for quite some time. Staszek Lem (talk) 19:40, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep. Lots of mentions in list of phobia books like An Introduction to Phobia and Oxford Dictionary of Psychology . There seems to be a page or two here ] and a paragraph here . This took about five minutes.  There could be a lot more. The article certainly needs much improvement though. MB 01:57, 15 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Really? An Introduction to Phobia defines "rhabdophobia: fear of being severely punished or beated by rod" and "samhainophobia: fear of Halloween". When you people start thinking critically when on the internets? 23:50, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Behavioural science-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 01:05, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 01:05, 18 April 2017 (UTC)


 * delete and salt as a topic putatively about actual mental health, passing mentions in pop culture are not sufficient. Pubmed search brings up nothing.  Search at PsycNet (cannot save results, search page is here) brings up nothing.  As the lead to List of phobias makes clear, people have been making up "fun-with-greek" names for putative specific phobias since the late 1800s.  I think WP doesn't have much about how the uncanniness of puppets (as being like-but-the-same-as humans) has been used in horror (we do have Killer toy but that is not very good) but that topic is different from a specific phobia (a serious thing) regarding puppets Jytdog (talk) 01:25, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Arts-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 01:54, 18 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Delete and redirect to List of phobias. I can't see this growing far beyond a definition whilst maintaining WP:MEDRS so it should instead redirect to another page containing that definition, which is List of phobias. PriceDL (talk) 23:57, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
 * List of phobias has many other phobias that probably aren't any more common that Pupaphobia, almost all of which are blue links with their own articles, and some have far fewer references. So if this one is deleted, there are probably a bunch of other that should go too, e.g. Chiroptophobia, Decidophobia, Ergophobia, Gamophobia.

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, –  Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 02:53, 22 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep Wikipedia already has an insufficient amount of articles on mental health problems as it is. Solely relying on scholistic sources seems too narrow since the taboo associated with mental illness already prevents potential patients from coming forward about their condition thus further restricting our knowledge on mental health issues.Toveswuu hed (talk) 12:15, 24 April 2017 (UTC)
 * New user; has no grasp pf wikipedia rules. Staszek Lem (talk) 00:36, 25 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete per Jytdog; even non non-med RS provide little coverage, mostly passing mentions relating to other contexts (films, of course), but with no WP:DEPTH of coverage to satisfy our notability guide. &mdash;  O Fortuna   semper crescis, aut decrescis  11:55, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
 * delete just another dictdef. Do we still transwiki to Wiktionary? If so, that's the place for it. Redirect to aforementioned list. Dloh  cierekim  16:05, 1 May 2017 (UTC)


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