Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ochlophobia

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The result was redirect‎ to Agoraphobia. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 17:24, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ochlophobia

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This is based two sources: a medical dictionary definition and a list of phobias, neither of which would qualify as a reliable medical source. As such, it appears to be nothing more than an expanded dictionary definition (see Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary). Searching for sources on PubMed led to one instance of the term in a foreign-language paper. It follows that there is no article to be developed. This discussion is related to two previous deletion discussions (Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Enochlophobia, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Enochlophobia (2nd nomination)) for "Enochlophobia" which does not show up in PubMed at all. A redirect to Agoraphobia ("an anxiety disorder characterized by symptoms of anxiety in situations where the person perceives their environment to be unsafe with no easy way to escape.[1] These situations can include public transit, shopping centers, crowds...") may be appropriate. AskedTeeth (talk) 17:13, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Medicine and Social science. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 18:15, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Psychology-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 18:15, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Move to Wiktionary. The term exists but actual academic coverage of it as a specific phobia seems to be lacking.--cyclopia ^speak! 09:56, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect, which is what we did for dozens of other phobias years ago. Bearian (talk) 01:00, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to agoraphobia, which is what we already do for demophobia, the other condition listed on that page. Adding onto AskedTeeth, that single result on PubMed is French reporting on the distribution of phobias in Tehran. In claiming that "darkness, nyctophobia, necrophobia, ochlophobia, ailurophobia and pet animals and fear of cancer and syphilis accounted for 79% of the phobic cases studied," it is pretty clear that this author used ochlophobia as a specific form of what English medical scientists would categorize as agoraphobia. ViridianPenguin 🐧 ( 💬 ) 18:22, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Easy Redirect to agoraphobia. Wikipedia is not a dictionary for synonyms. -The Gnome (talk) 19:51, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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