Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dacryphilia

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 Keep. Xoloz 17:15, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Dacryphilia

del Verifiability problem. No reputable information. The coinage is rather dubious: "dacry", what is it? Ebonics for "the cry"? `'mikka (t) 05:47, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Comment This term makes sense to me since I've heard of dacryon being a technical name for the tears produced by the lachrymal glands as a physiological response to various emotions (Mosby's Medical, Nursing and Allied Health Dictionary). As for the fetish, no idea but it makes sense on this basis if that was your main problem with the term. Kris 11:10, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. ⇒ SWATJester ^Ready Aim _Fire! 10:09, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep The article has a reference, plus this isn't the first time I've heard this term. Google gets plenty of reslts, as well. "I don't know where this word comes from" doesn't seem like a solid basis for deletion to me. Danny Lilithborne 16:48, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, as a short Google search shows. See here[1] or here[2] for example. Fram 18:54, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per google :) Dlohcierekim 23:36, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, google is not a reliabel source.--Peta 06:05, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Yes, but are the sources I found through Google reliable or not? And anyway, even if it is perhaps not a scientific term, it still is clearly a widely used one in certain circles (and for that Google is a reliable indicator), and deserves an entry. It's not because the subject and most of the Google links are not to my taste that we should get rid of it. If the info in the entry is incorrect, give it a cleanup tag or something. Fram 07:34, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

• Keep, origin is not Ebonics, the origin is from Latin and Greek. The Latin dacrydium, is a type of tree, and is a diminutive of a greek word that means tear (the drops of resin that the tree leaves look like tears). Also there is a reference to it in Brenda Love's book 'The Encyclopedia of Unusual Sexual Practices'.

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.