Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Ghost/archive1

The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was not promoted 16:20, 5 November 2007.

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Ghost

I'm nominating this article for featured article because the article is timely for Todos Los Santos or All Saints'/Souls' Day... Tell me what you think... :) ilyk2learn 11:29, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Oppose The lead sentence: "A ghost is defined as the apparition of a deceased person, frequently similar in appearance to that person, and usually encountered in places she or he frequented, or in association with the person's former belongings." OK, except ghosts aren't encountered in places frequented, since ghosts are encountered precisely as often as leprechauns and the tooth fairy. This article is too POV for my tastes, downplaying reality. Take this example: "Skeptics also say that, to date, there is no credible scientific evidence that any location is inhabited by spirits of the dead." Why are we mentioning skeptics? Can't the lack of scientific evidence stand on its own? Why "to date"? Are we expecting some in the near future? Just say "There is no credible scientific evidence that any location is inhabited by spirits of the dead." Pagrashtak 14:22, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Oppose as per Pagrashtak; and there are MOS breaches all over the place. Tony (talk) 02:39, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Question: I'm not even convinced the definition is correct. Surely the apparition doesn't have to come from a dead person... Animals can become ghosts too (non-scientifically speaking). - 87.212.40.234 02:56, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

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