Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of reportedly haunted locations in the United States


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The result was   keep. postdlf (talk) 15:31, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

List of reportedly haunted locations in the United States

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The title is a big give-away "List of reportedly haunted....." I cannot yet find a single entry amongst the many hundreds that has a robust and reliable source. All entries seem to be based on blog sites that in turn report "beliefs". There is nothing here that makes the grade with regard to notability. There must be a few sites in the USA which have had national newpaper coverage that can be used or have been discussed in books, in which case there might be a list of a few tens of entries but even entries such as that seem to be missing. In the absence of notability, I would suggest the whole article should go.  Velella  Velella Talk 08:58, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Three references to .gov and four to .edu. Not sure if any of the books referenced are notable.  Most of the references don't seem to qualify as reliable sources.  Do the articles linked to on the list include information about them being reported haunted?  Are more reliable sources found there?   D r e a m Focus  09:07, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
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 * Keep The official websites of the places I looked at so far don't list their haunted history. You'd think if that was a major tourist attraction they'd cover that.  Various television shows have covered some of these locations.  Plenty of local newspaper coverage for things.  I'm thinking there would be at least local coverage of anything on the list, proving it has in fact been reported haunted.  Editors can determine if anything isn't notable enough to be on the list or not.  The article can be fixed by proper editing methods, no need to delete.  It seems to have been created by taking articles for each individual state, and just redirecting them all here, and copy and pasting their contents altogether.   D r e a m Focus  09:24, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Googling site:*.gov "haunted" I find plenty of results, but it isn't just official government websites talking about haunted histories. Instead I find Halloween attractions like   not based on anything actually reported to be haunted.  So trouble finding things that way.  Are there any books considered reliable sources listing all the reported haunted places in America?   D r e a m Focus  09:32, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep highly notable and oft-discussed topic....scientific...errr maybe not...popular/notable...hell yeah. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 10:04, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment - but not notable as required by wikipedia. If I was to say that my house was haunted and sent a message to one of the sites used for many of the locations, my house would instantly become sufficiently notable, if we were to accept your view of notability. I am sorry, but that is just gossip, not notability.  Velella  Velella Talk 10:20, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Anything not sourced to a reliable source should be tagged "citation needed" and then if no one finds one should be eliminated. No need to destroy the entire list, simply to get rid of some bad entries that might be there.   D r e a m Focus  13:18, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Maybe an alternative would be to merge properly sourced entries back into List of reportedly haunted locations from which it was forked in June 2010.  Velella  Velella Talk 15:44, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
 * The article is large enough to be on its own. I noticed you eliminated referenced sources to "The Official Site of Arkansas Department of Parks & Tourism", as well as an entry sourced to the Travel Channel.  Please don't just randomly go through deleting things.    D r e a m Focus  10:55, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
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 * Keep/Possible Merge - As others have said, the subject itself is notable, however, much of the listed content is not. What this really needs is a massive cleanup to take away the less-than-reputable claims and sources.  If, when that is finished, the remainder of the properly sourced information isn't enough to sustain its own article, then a later discussion can potentially merge it back into List of reportedly haunted locations, as Velella suggested.  64.183.45.226 (talk) 16:40, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep The topic is valid and there are enough haunted places in the US to justify a split from List of reportedly haunted locations. If sources are poor remove them but I think for this type of subject the sources by nature will be non-academic pop-culture. -- Green  C  00:32, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
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