Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Harry Benjamin Syndrome
I agree that scientific circles are not the end all and be all of notability.  However a term can't just be widely used to be notable enough for inclusion in Wikipedia.  According to otability"If a topic has received significant coverage in wikipedia:Reliable sources|reliable wikipedia:No original research#Primary,_secondary,_and_tertiary_sources|secondary sources that are wikipedia:Verifiability#Sources|independent of the subject, it is presumed to satisfy the inclusion criteria for a stand-alone article."  A Google searchhttp://www.google.com/search?q=%22Harry+Benjamin+Syndrome%22 google:"Harry Benjamin Syndrome turns up a number of personal webpages, and blogs, containing opinion pieces by transsexuals themselves which are not peer reviewed at all and are self published sources.  Such sources are generally not acceptable in Wikipedia.  Searching google scholar http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22Harry%20Benjamin%20Syndrome%22 turns up only one scholarly reference which uses it at all and says "TEAM was originally called the ‘Harry Benjamin Syndrome Support Group’ by its founder,Jessica Park, but this name was not really taken up by the membership..."(see the google scholar results).  Searching google news http://news.google.com/news?tab=sn&sa=N&q=%22Harry+Benjamin+Syndrome%22 ''turns up absolutely no uses of this in any of the numerous sources that google news follows''.  This all suggest to me that this subject is not yet notable enough to merit it's own article. It is use by reliable sources not just any ol website that makes something notable enough for wikipedia
— User:Hfarmer, 20:52, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:N (Wikipedia:Notability)