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468:- i will have a go at it tomorrow, and redirect to a new title, and include 'disappearance stories' not simply as phenomena but as folklore ("strange disappearances" is a better title - a websearch turned lots of relevant returns, so that's a better title to go with.) (personal comment: why didn't anyone read the article's discussion page, where there was a consensus building up that it should be 'kept but improved'?)
309:. Provided sources are added, I see no reason to delete this. I have a nice book that could help add to it. There's no doubt gonna be people who find anything remotely paranormal unreliable. The fact is, whether it's true or not, it has been documented. I just think this personal was trying for a legitimate article.
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584:: for reasons mentioned above, as well as the fact that this subject is well-covered at other places on the internet, such as About.com's paranormal pages ("Vanished! Unexplained Disappearances" and "Into Thin Air") and deserves to be adequately described in Knowledge (XXG)'s paranormal section.
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394:: For the same reasons cited above. Sure, you have sources, but the sources also state that they really fall into the fourth dimension as a possible theory. Methinks they are not reliable. Also, a lot of the article seems to be about a single case that was fake. --
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