Wikipedia:WikiProject Paranormal/Collaboration/Archived nominations

This is a list of articles which failed to become Paranormal Collaboration of the Month. They either failed to generate interest, content, or did not meet the collaboration criteria.

If you feel either of those three things has changed, you may renominate them if you want.

Not enough votes
These articles did not gain the required three votes per month.

EBay Haunted Painting
Nomination due to the sheer number of occasions people have reported, regardless of accuracy or sensationalism, strange events in connection to the work, and due to the popularity it has acquired in popular culture such as the internet, radio programs, and similar media. --Chr.K. 00:15, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 1) Support I did a little work on this just now adding info on what it sold for, the artists comment, it's history of ownership and sources. I'll do more as I can.  Interesting painting.Lisapollison 09:58, 3 October 2006(UTC)
 * I did some more tweaking on this. I agree with others that the article should be the name of the painting with redirects from EBay Haunted Painting but I don't know how to do that switcheroo.  Can a more competant editor do that for us please?Lisapollison 06:01, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Looks like someone already did it. To move a page, all you have to do is click on the tab at the top of the page that says "move" (it's to the right of the tab that says "history"). Then, just follow the instructions. Zagalejo 18:37, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Resurrection Mary
Just throwing this into the mix, for your consideration. Resurrection Mary is a classic American ghost story, and there has been a good deal written about it, so the page is easily expandable. It's only B-class at the moment, but that's about as good as any of the articles we have. Zagalejo 17:58, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 1) Support Ha! I live 15 mins from this site! --InShaneee 18:02, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

La Llorona or the Weeping Woman
I am nominating this article because it's well on it's way to meeting the definitions of a featured article and because it's private interest of mine. La Llorona can be expanded to include modern versions of her story and regional variants not yet included in the article. She's a fascinating legenedary figure and aspects of her story and be found in many other local legends of places such as Cry Baby Bridges. In brief, she is said to have been a spurned woman who drowned her children to spite their father and she now walks the dry arroyos and river beds looking for her children and wailing. To encounter her is to risk death. Please take a look and see if you agree that we could add to this arleady good article. It would benefit from some source citations, some prudent editing down and a basic reorganizarion.Lisapollison 08:30, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 1) Support Though I should note that I actually removed the Paranormal Project template from this page some time ago; feel free to re-add it if you wish, but I wasn't sure if, as a folk legend that never really claims to be anything else, this qualified under the project. If, however, you think I'm wrong about that, then I'll defer to your judgment and heartily support this nomination of this quality article. --InShaneee 13:20, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) Support Looking around online, it appears that there actually are sightings of La Llorona, so I think she'd qualify as a paranormal topic. Zagalejo 17:26, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Since I nominated this, I don't think I'm supposed to vote. I wanted to tell everyone that la llorona is indeed a very active phantom in most hispanic neighborhoods and especially where I live in los Angeles.  she is used as a bogeyman figure but also as a morality lesson.  There are many varients of her story but she is sighted frequently.  I stopped counting the numer of people who have told me about their personal encouters with her but I do keep a log of the stories.  I'd say I am up to over a hundred just from the greater Los Angeles area.  She IS Folklore but folklore is a dynamic thing.  I feel we coulddd a section about modern day sightings and the consequences of running into La Llorona which include: Death, disfigurement, maiming, theft of your own child, and more. She is a powerful presence in the lives of many hispanics.Lisapollison 07:50, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Reality shifts
This subject is one that is near and dear to my heart, and also rather new to the field, to the point you might consider it on 'the bleeding edge' of the paranormal. Reality shifts have been mentioned in enough scientific books and articles at this point to have their own Wikipedia page, which is why I went to the trouble of starting one... which was nearly deleted, since my own interests in the subject were determined to put the article into a status of "Fantasy is portrayed as reality" by Nealparr, who at one point had the page tagged for removal. Fortunately, I have been able to include sufficient other links to various experts pages, to the point that the "fantasy is portrayed as reality" has been removed, and now the page just has the "neutrality of this article is disputed" header, which indicates some more references will be very helpful. I am very new to this WikiProject community, and also to Wikipedia as an editor, so any and all help on this page is very much appreciated. Cynthia Sue Larson 18:32, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 1) Support The subject sounds interesting...and I just love pseudo-skeptics getting material shoved in their face; their facial features sometime take on an interesting shade of purple and all. --Chr.K. 15:32, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Charles Fort (second month nominated)
The patron saint of paranormal! This article is already in great condition, so it wouldn't take a giant effort to push it to Featured status. Considering how he's the 'Kevin Bacon' of paranormal (connected to everything paranormal by degrees), he seems like an important and neccisary inclusion for the WP 1.0 Project. --InShaneee 16:03, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 1) Support. Zagalejo 18:02, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

BFRO
Since this is a very large and (occording to themselves) significant Bigfoot researching organisation, and Bigfoot is a subject of paranormal interest, I believe it would make a good collaboration. As well, it is a stub that needs improvements. Ninety wazup? Review me 21:45, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * For - room for lots of ellaboration. And there seem to be a lot of mentions of it out there on the Internet (thus greater chances of legitimate source material), including some recent ones. --Careax 14:54, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Valentich Disappearance
I've worked with the article somewhat over time, and was the one to add in the Australian Department of Transport aspect from Wikisource. I think with some media aspects, including pictures of Valentich, the Cessna 182 make he was flying, and the front page newspaper article describing the disappearance, the article could reach toward complete wikification and GA-status. On the basis of its importance to the project, I would classify it in the top five most documented UFO cases in history. --Chr.K. 22:17, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Support A large body of verifiable material? Sign me up! --InShaneee 05:25, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

No votes
These articles did not gain any votes.

John Lambe
John Lambe (or Lamb) (born ca. 1545; died June 13, 1628) was an English astrologer who served George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, during the early 17th century. (see article for the rest)

I'm nominating this article because it's very well done and an example of what our project can do when an editor puts his/her mind to it. it's already worthy of being featured but I'm sure we could come up with some useful additional materials, illustrations etc. it's an interesting piece on a historical personage of paranormal interest - the type of which I'd like to see more of. of course, the Riswell article is actually in dire need, so maybe we should concentrate on that. I just feel if your goal is to get a preject article on the front page, John Lambe is already most of the way there Lisapollison 16:28, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
 * (article creator here) I appreciate your support, but I think this article has a long way to go before approaching FA status. I think it's too short, and I pieced it together entirely from secondary and tertiary sources – ideally, I'd like to take a look at some of the original 17th century documents before considering an FA nomination. I certainly do welcome any additional information, illustrations, and constructive criticism, but I'm not sure the page meets the criteria for Collaboration of the Month. Zagalejo 18:11, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Don't forget, as per the voting section, no negative comments are neccisary. If you think something isn't quite ready for collaboration, simply don't vote for it. --InShaneee 19:10, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Zagalejo, I'm not nominating it for FA status, I'm nominating it as a potential article for our monthly collaberation with an eye towards it someday being a FA. As I understand InShaneee's intent, our monthly collaborations are to beef up exisitng articles with potential.  Your article has lots of potential.  The Roswell article is always going to be problematic POV-wise due to acitivists on oth sides.  This article is a terrific example of the fiune work I hoped to see and participate in when I joined this project.  Even if nobody else wants to collaborate on it with you, I will.  Secondary sources are fine.  very few wikipedia articles of this nature are loaded with primary source references.  Considering the historic nature of the topic, I feel we could get primary ciations, but shouldn't stay up nights worrying about it.  It's a wonderful piece of work BTW.  if you have any other topics you are working on, please do share with us on the project page.  I'd be very interested in anything you are doing!Lisapollison 14:31, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, thank you for your kind words and encouragement. I hope I didn't come across as belittling your suggestion, because, really, I'm flattered to see the article here, and I'm glad someone thinks it's decent. :) Zagalejo 14:42, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
 * That's the spirit. Just because we only name one article a month doesn't mean we can't be finding new articles to help improve in the meantime. :) --InShaneee 15:19, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Rendlesham Forest Incident
Ranks alongside Roswell and Kecksburg as one of the three most blatantly documented UFO cases in history, complete with British ministry of defense files openly admitting the existence of unidentified objects (and more), rather than some pseudo-skeptical "lighthouse" explanation. --Chr.K. 09:59, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Article needs a good clean up, and needs to be made more encyclopedic (Skeptical viewpoint should be put AFTER paranormal viewpoint, otherwise it creates bias in the read), but I don't think that it is collaboration worthy as it would get messy like EVP. Needs one user to give it a good going over, then a peer review.

Reptilian humanoid
Reptilian humanoids are one of the big three (Greys, space brothers, reptilians) in modern ETH and alien conspiracy, they deserve a much better written entry. The current one is very light weight and does not explain clearly the various hypothesis, urban legends and ancient myths surrounding them. It sounds like a bad summery written for a conspiracy website.

perfectblue 11:24, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Paranormal
Seems kind of obvious in hindsight. Looks pretty well filled out, and the talk page shows little to no debate. Needs a good deal of sourcing, but that may mainly be it. Would make a great banner project for us, too! --InShaneee 14:41, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Sweater curse
Having just become familiar with this article, I felt it would benefit from a collaborative effort since it is primarily the work of one editor. It is an amusing superstition that appears to be well-documented within a group of hobbyists and is very similar in nature to the folk beliefs amongst tatto artists that if you get your lover's name tattooed on your body, you will cause the relationship to end. Likewise, myself and other folklorists have collected similar beliefs from novelists and other writers who say that whenver they have dedicated on of their books to a wife, husband, lover, etc, the romance has gone sour and that the only way to preserve a romance is to nevert dedicate a book to the person you love. I believe that we are in a unique position to help expand this article and connect it to other simialr "curses" and superstitions. I have some funny personal experience with this "Curse" in that my college roommate of 3 years decided to gift me a sweater and spent our entire Junior year knitting it not knowing I had no intention of rooming with her again the following year. She was manic-depressive, given to suicidal episodes. I didn't know the sweater she was knitting was for me and asked her many times who it was for and she gave several answers throughout the year. Sadly, she chose to give it to me the day we were filing our housing requests. She blamed the sweater for years for our "break-up" and may well sitll for all I know. I don't believe the sweater was to blame of course, but it was remarkable timing, eh?

I feel we could beef this up, create some parallel articles on similar supertitions, link it up with other like beliefs, create a See Also section and External link section, and clean up some of the structure. The original editor has made a very good start of it. The article just needs some polish, some citations and minor restructuring of the social mechanisms area.Lisapollison 08:53, 7 February 2007 (UTC)