Talk:James Van Praagh

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[edit] alleged medium ???

The word "alleged" was removed because it, in my opinion, is not NPOV.

The validity of "medium-ship" is discussed later in the article, which may be the issue the person who added the "alleged" has.

Cheers, WIKIPEDIAVI 19:30, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

I don't see how removing "alleged" makes it more NPOV, since now it says that he IS a psychic & medium, implying that such things are real. How about something like "James Van Praagh claims to be a psychic & medium"? BigFatKnowAll 15:23, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

Agreed. "Who claims psychic abilities" is accurate, NPOV and consistent with, for example, the article on Edgar Cayce. LeContexte 11:24, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Agreed. There doesn't seem to be a lot of activity on this page so I'm going to go ahead and add "...who claims to be a psychic and medium". Justinfr (talk) 20:13, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

The ArbCom decided that psychic are cultural artefacts. The Psychic page was re-written accordingly, " The term is also used to refer to theatrical performers who use techniques such as prestidigitation and cold reading to produce the appearance of having such abilities.", and see this. The Edgar Cayce article just needs to be cleaned up. ——Martin^phi ☎ Ψ Φ—— 21:20, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Hmmm, I disagree and I think that most people, when they see the word "psychic" do not recognize it as a "cultural artifact" that does not imply veracity. The word psychic, unmodified, implies that psychics exist. Just throwing in my two cents though; if it's been decided elsewhere then I'll abide by that. Thanks for the link, it was informative. Justinfr (talk) 04:50, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

No problem. What the ArbCom seems to have meant is that if you live on Earth, and you don't know about the controversy over whether there are real psychic abilities, then it doesn't help to put doubt words in front of it. In other words, we can talk about psychics just like in normal speech, because we don't have to worry that much about the reader. ——Martin^phi ☎ Ψ Φ—— 07:39, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Category change

Categories have been changed in accordance with the recent Arbitration on the paranormal, specifically 6a) Adequate framing, and Cultural artefacts. Martin^phi _{(Talk Ψ Contribs)} 21:07, 3 August 2007 (UTC)