Talk:Blood phobia

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[edit] Notes upon article creation

  • hemophobia originally linked to blood, which has no information on blood phobia, so I decided to be bold and create the article. If there's a reason to revert to the old redirect, please mention it on the blood page, so that we don't wind up with revert wars.
  • Sigh. It looks like there was already a revert war over a DICDEF version of the article, and I forgot to check the article history. I think the current article should explain why hemophobia has less to do with blood than to do with other serious phobias, one of which (trypanophobia) already has a separate article.
  • This article is called "blood phobia," since that is almost uniformly what the medical sources call it, rather than the (ironically) more common lay term h(a)emophobia. (763 in google for "blood phobia," 13,200 for "hemophobia," 2,600 for "haemophobia"). If you want to change it, to one of the other terms, that's great.
  • I know virtually nothing about the subject, and all my information came from the sources that are listed on the page. I figured that an article using good sources written by an outsider is better than nothing.
  • There are a lot of sources for a stub. If the article becomes much longer, these sources will not appear out of place.
  • Oh, also--there might be reason to merge this with trypanophobia and traumatophobia (or to create a separate blood-injection-injury phobia page, with smaller pages on each type), but I'll wait to see what others think.--Superluser 18:03, 19 May 2007 (UTC)