Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zerophilia (Disease)

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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 speedy: fictional disease from movie Zerophilia. `'mikka (t) 22:26, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Zerophilia (Disease)

This article is about an improbable sounding disease. An editor marked it for speedy claiming patent nonsense. Another one was going to mark it a hoax, but found google results and now isn't quite so sure. This AFD is to expose it to a broader audience who might be able to determine if it is a hoax or not. Plain Google results turned up 1,640,000 hits, most of which are for a movie featuring a disease by this name with this description. Some of them, however, are for the International Organization of Zerophiliacs. A narrower search [1], attempting to exclude the movie, and limited to English-language results turns up 522 hits, some of which are still about the movie, and most of which are dubious at best, but may be genuine (look at this one). A google news search turns up 6 hits, all for the movie [2]. A google scholar search for Zerophilia turns up nothing, but one for z chromosome turns up 624,000 hits [3]. So, is this a real disease? If so, where are the reliable sources? Co-nom by User:Twospoonfuls and ~ ONUnicorn (Talk / Contribs) 20:26, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

  • As the nom who isn't sure if this is for real or not, I abstain. ~ ONUnicorn (Talk / Contribs) 20:26, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Firstly there is no such thing as a Z chromosome, clearly the author is making this up or repeating something from some absurd sci-fi film. Secondly this notional disease would have to change its adult host's sex, patently this is nonsense. Twospoonfuls 20:41, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
  • No Z chromosome in humans, I should have said. Twospoonfuls 20:48, 12 October 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.