Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sanguivoriphobia


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The result was delete.  Sandstein  07:26, 21 August 2016 (UTC)

Sanguivoriphobia

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Vampires? Seriously? Anyway, outside of one "news of the weird" anecdote there's nothing on this except the usual "list all" websites. Mangoe (talk) 14:38, 13 August 2016 (UTC)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion_discussion_guidelines


 * Delete The only plausible source I can find is this book, which contains only the anecdote that there once lived a man in Ludington, Michigan who was so afraid of vampires he always slept with a piece of garlic in his mouth, and one night he choked to death. With no citations, the source doesn't pass WP:SCHOLARSHIP, let alone WP:MEDRS, which would be needed for a psychiatric topic. Any truly notable content I'm overlooking could go in a section of Vampire. FourViolas (talk) 04:08, 14 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 15:32, 18 August 2016 (UTC)


 * delete and salt This is gobbledegook (see here) "fun with greek" and there are no MEDRS sources. Per our current List of phobias article which will hopefully soon be deleted, "A large number of -phobia lists circulate on the Internet, with words collected from indiscriminate sources, often copying each other. Also, a number of psychiatric websites exist that at the first glance cover a huge number of phobias, but in fact use a standard text to fit any phobia and reuse it for all unusual phobias by merely changing the name. Sometimes it leads to bizarre results, such as suggestions to cure "prostitute phobia". Such practice is known as content spamming and is used to attract search engines."

- Jytdog (talk) 16:00, 20 August 2016 (UTC)


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