Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Androphobia (4th nomination)

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The result was delete. And salt, this should not be recreated without a WP:DELREV Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 19:54, 29 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Androphobia

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Recently recreated article deleted twice before at AfD. CSD declined due to differing content. It is nonetheless still not a notable concept. On one hand it is one of the -phobias that gets a brief mentioned in various lists of [various prefixes] + phobia. On the other hand it's used to mean misandry. Would also be appropriate to simply redirect to list of phobias, where it is already listed (and doesn't need additional detail). — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 18:34, 22 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Pinging all participants of the previous AfD: @Alison, Pip25, Bakerstmd, and Opabinia regalis: and users involved in the recent CSD and subsequent discussion: @RickinBaltimore, Staszek Lem, and Group29: — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 18:37, 22 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Behavioural science-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 18:47, 22 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. One of the problems with phobias is that it's possible to snowclone an absolutely limitless number of words for new phobias, simply by attaching a Latin or Greek prefix to -phobia, to define an irrational fear of absolutely anything that exists. So to make this a notable concept that would warrant an encyclopedia article, what would be needed is not mere dictionary definitions, which is all that's present for referencing here — we would need actual substance to suggest that this term actually has real-world context, such as sources which discuss it in depth as a concept and analyze actual examples of the purported phobia in action. Boilerplate dictionary definitions of what it technically means as a term aren't enough to merit an encyclopedia article by themselves, if we can't show any substance beyond that. Bearcat (talk) 00:27, 23 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
delete and salt. For years the article failed to be more than dictionary definition. Staszek Lem (talk) 16:24, 24 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. I found this source, but I don't think that it is a suitable reference. I could not find any papers in Pubmed, nor any description in psychiatry textbooks. Axl ¤ [Talk] 12:09, 26 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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