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[edit] Phobia Lists

Just wondering if there was any need to list the examples of content spammers in the article? Surely by acknowledging their existence in the first place we're inadvertently giving them free advertising eg: 'call 1-800 XXXXX'...? londonsista | Prod 03:18, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Quite on the contrary, with these quite ridiculous suggestions to cure Russophobia or Prostitute Phobia we are giving them a proper kind of publicity. If, however, after reading this article someone with telephonophobia decides to call 1-800, then peace be upon him :-) Mukadderat (talk) 04:23, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] "Emophobia"

I call vandalism on this. 134.117.254.250 (talk) 23:31, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

I wonder if there is a fear of emos? C Teng (talk) 13:31, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Fear of turning into a pumkin (Apocolocynposis)

I read somewhere that "Apocolocynposis" is the fear of turning into a pumkin. I also saw the same thing when I search it on Google. Is the word accually real? C Teng (talk) 13:33, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Apotemnophobia

I read somewhere that it was fear of either a one legged person, or a person with one arm, or something. Anyone want to elaborate and add it to the page? I'm afraid I might accidentally kill the article. Dragana666 (talk) 18:38, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

  • There are plenty of various coinages with the word "phobia", because people may fear virtually everything and under some conditions this fear may become pathological, ie., phobia. There are dozens of "phobia lists" circulating in internet. In wikipedia we write articles about notable things based on referenced from reputable sources, see wikipedia:Attribution and what is a reliable source for wikipedia. `'Míkka>t 19:48, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Onychophobia

I've tried to research this, it's the fear of Nails (hands and feet), I was wondering if this could be verified before it's put in. Pureferret (talk) 17:02, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia vs. Sesquipedaliophobia

I think it's reasonably obvious that the definition given for hippopot... pretty much axiomatically shows itself to be a falsified word. I vote that it be replaced by Sesquipedaliophobia (which the definition of hippopot... actually recognises as being the fear of words longer than one-and-a-half feet) with a reference to the fact that -hippopoto- and -monstrose- both mean the same thing and were almost irrefutably appended to make the word seem longer for the sake of irony.
TheDefiniteArticle (talk) 00:30, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Phobophobia

Right now, phobophobia is listed in the "fictional phobias," with no citations or examples of its "fictional" usage, as opposed to all the other words in the section. However, according to Merriam-Webster's medical dictionary, phobophobia is an actual word meaning "excessive fear of acquiring a phobia." Therefore, I'm moving phobophobia to the "psychological conditions" section with this citation. SnoKoneManiac (talk) 06:00, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, am deleting it at all, because wikipedia is not a dictionary: the dictionary is wiktionary. We are not listing dictionary definitions here, we are listing wikipedia articles about notable phobias. Mukadderat (talk) 04:26, 10 June 2008 (UTC)