Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vampire fetish


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The result was   keep. (non-admin closure) Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:23, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Vampire fetish

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Attempts at finding reliable sources have failed, and reliable sources are unlikely to exist given the neologistic, marginal, idiosyncratic and sexual nature of the subject. By the same token; the subject's notability is absent, and therefore the article is unable to avoid the function of "advocacy". Redblueball (talk) 16:48, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sexuality and gender-related deletion discussions.   -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:24, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

weak keep Vampires as a subconscious sexual metaphor is something that has been explored in both pop writing and more serious works, but I'm not sure if that warrants this as a separate article from 'vampire'. 129.89.68.62 (talk) 21:07, 10 September 2008 (UTC)


 * comment If vampire fiction does refer to sexuality then there's not much point saying we have something distinct here in a "fetish for vampires", unless behaving like a vampire for sexual arousal is worthy of a article, but this seems akin to supporting an unreferenced article on "kids enjoying pretending to be ghouls". Redblueball (talk) 12:08, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
 * keep Yes, the fetish does refer to(pretend or fictional) vampires. But since vampires are intrinsically fictional that's not a reason to delete. DGG (talk) 15:49, 13 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Comment Does the fetish exist? Why not also write an unreferenced article about "Non-sexual vampire role-play"? Redblueball (talk) 17:16, 13 September 2008 (UTC)


 * keep This fetish (more accurately called a paraphilia) is discussed in more than one high-quality RS (examples follow), but the professional literature calls it "vampirism." I recommend keeping the page, but renaming it to match the RS's.
 * Vanden Bergh, R. L., & Kelly, J. F. (1964). Vampirism: A review with new observations. Archives of General Psychiatry, 11, 543-547.
 * Prins, H. (1985). Vampirism—A clinical condition. British Journal of Psychiatry, 146, 666-668.
 * — James Cantor (talk) (formerly, MarionTheLibrarian) 16:55, 14 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Comment Thank you - I agree. Redblueball (talk) 17:22, 14 September 2008 (UTC)


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