Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tomophobia

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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 no consensus. No content, but since some people think it might eventually be an encyclopedia article, it gets a soft redirect to the same text in wiktionary with nothing stopping them from writing a real article. - Bobet 08:51, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tomophobia

del. Nonnotable dicdef. It is just fear of surgical operations, not some rare disease. No reputable references besides lists of varuios phobias that swarm internet lately and inscrupulous psych websites which offer to treat you from prostitute phobia for only 1,275, see -phob-#Phobia lists. `'mikka (t) 17:44, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

  • Keep for now, and see if stub grows. It may well be a genuine problem in surgery. Leibniz 18:00, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
    • It "grows" since december 2005. Of course it is a genuine problem. And it is called "fear of surgery". `'mikka (t) 18:04, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Merge with -phob-. That article already contains a long list, this can well be included. Cpt. Morgan (Reinoutr) 13:59, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
    • No it cannot. Lists are not for collecting unverified garbage. If the disease exists, it deserves an article, even 1-2 sentences. If there is no such disease, trash the word. `'mikka (t) 16:11, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete, just a dicdef as it stands. Gazpacho 17:56, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment. I don't think google is sufficient to decide this. There are lots of charlatan uses of the term, but no evidence that surgeons never use it. Apparently the opposite, tomomania [4], is genuine. Leibniz 20:12, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep. The word is properly formed, and it seems likely enough to be a real phenomenon. Herostratus 16:59, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.