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I added the Origins and Criticism sections. - LuckyLouie 23:34, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

I expanded the Origins and added a Growth section. - LuckyLouie 08:49, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

I added 'Ghost hunting equipment and methods' and 'Types of investigators and groups' sections, as well as dozens of references. LuckyLouie 00:19, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] response to Spam template

I removed the Asia Paranormal ref to the photo. I removed the link to Asia Paranormal and replaced it with a footnote. I cleaned up the external links. There is now only one external link to the 'exhaustive list' of ghost hunting groups, and one external link to an article to represent the skeptical side. --LuckyLouie 17:48, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

I have also removed two links used to source the "Ghost hunting equipment and methods" section, [1] and [2]. They are comprehensive and serve to show what tools ghost hunters use, but the fact that they are an advertisement is unfortunate. -- LuckyLouie 18:46, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Weasels

I deleted a few weasels. I think perhaps the sections need to be from a particular perspective, so that weasels can be avoided. Also need sources in the Origins section. Martin^phi _{(Talk Ψ Contribs)} 06:29, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

"Remove weasel, insert my own weasel, viz, "critics often believe" Don't change this to "scientists." Please don't use edit summ. to give orders to Wikipedians. --- LuckyLouie 02:33, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, I needed that for getting annoyed at the way people weasel things on purpose to discredit. Like this and this and this. Still, people give orders to each other all the time on the summaries. Like this: "the point on the talk page has already been made; it's one or the other: recognize that _nobody_ recognizes existence of psychics, or define psychics as those who allege to have abilities". I'll try to notice and do better. This article is a lot better than a lot I've seen. Martin^phi _{(Talk Ψ Contribs)} 04:20, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Paranormal

The word "paranormal" is not a substitute for "alleged", "supposed", "said to be", or "believed", and should not be used as the sole indicator of non-factuality. --- LuckyLouie 21:50, 10 February 2007 (UTC)