Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Clairredolence


 * 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 DELETE. Herostratus 14:38, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Clairredolence

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This page contains information on a non-notable area of parapsychology. The subject matter is mostly a romanticized new age idea that has been tagged onto parapsychology by its own believers, rather than by parapsychologists. After a brief period of research, I was unable to verify that this topic existed outside of a "fringe of a fringe", and can assert that it hasn't even succeeded in attracting of notable kooks, let alone serious investigators/well known pseudoscientists.

The topic also does not exist in popular fiction. The closest that I've found to a reference to it were a couple of "related incidents" in TV shows (a Doctor Who episode in which somebody smells a familiar smell around what they think is a ghost of a relative, and a scene from the movie poltergeist where a spirit runs through somebody and leave a distinctive odor behind). In these cases, it is referenced through an action, but it never named.

In brief, it's not notable, and should be deleted.

perfectblue 09:45, 15 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete: subject is not notable, and is largely a piece of new age whimsy riding on the coattails of Parapsychology. perfectblue 09:45, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge & redirect into appropriate parapsychology article. J. D. Redding 16:10, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment: There doesn't appear to be one. This is new age stuff, not proper parapsychology perfectblue 16:44, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Response: It says it's part of extra-sensory perception. IF not, then Delete. J. D. Redding 17:27, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
 * It's not part of ESP as far as parapsychology is concerned. It's just a new age neologism - perfectblue 17:40, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Then redirect to new age or extra-sensory perception. Is there a list of such neologisms @ either article? Such as "Clairaudience", "Clairaudient", [insert new age term here], etc ... J. D. Redding 17:51, 15 April 2007 (UTC) (PS., I know about neologism, I did some work on that a year or 2 ago ...)
 * This AfD nomination was incomplete. It is listed now. DumbBOT 11:30, 16 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete. The phenomena of odours related to supposedly paranormal sources is well-known, but this term gets just one unique GHit  that isn't a Wikipedia mirror (and that was written by an "Empathic and Intuitive Mediator"), so it probably drifts into WP:NFT territory as well.  Eliminator JR  Talk  20:30, 16 April 2007 (UTC)


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