Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Traumatic Masturbatory Syndrome

Traumatic Masturbatory Syndrome is, as its wisely added "disclaimer" states, the figment of the mind of one particular researcher. It seems to have found no resonance in the sexology research community. The claims in this article go unsupported by evidence, and Delete seems the only sensible answer. JFW | T@lk 11:08, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)

• Oppose. This article was originally suspected of being a hoax but (having been sent a copy of the original paper) I now think that is untenable (Talk:Traumatic Masturbatory Syndrome). The (now apparently unfounded) suspicion that the whole thing is a hoax appears to have poisoned the debate. Calling it a "figment of the mind of one particular researcher" is, in my view, unreasonable. Its appeared in the (presumably) peer-reviewed literature which gives it a higher status than many wiki articles. It should have a disclaimer at the top (the current one is unreasonable though IMHO) and be a fairly short article.

  This comment was written by William M. Connolley. Mike H 13:21, Sep 14, 2004 (UTC)

• I think it's fine as it currently is; it's pretty fringe science but it seems to be "legit" (in the sense of, this guy published an article about it). Frankly the worst part of the study, at least from what I can tell from the article and talk page, is that it only has a sample size of 4, which is hard to believe is enough to establish such a vague "syndrome" from. But anyway, very weak keep. --Fastfission 12:25, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Comment: In science N=4 is generally rejected as insignificant. I'm not sure that we'd be well to report on something that, frankly, should have been called insignificant by the peer review community. Secondly, though, this "syndrome" has attracted self-described victims from Yahoo. Well, that doesn't make it, in my book. Every syndrome, including alien mind control, gathers adherents online. Geogre 12:56, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)