Talk:Psychokinesis

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Archives Archive 1 - November 22, 2006 Archive 2 - February 22, 2007

Contents 1 Talk Page Archive 2 A couple of editing tips for use on this psychokinesis talk page 3 Tactile telekinesis - article disappeared from Wikipedia? 4 Poor article 5 Grammatical forms section removed by editor - discussion requested 6 Comment from 75.81.123.105 regarding Belief in TK section 7 Questionnaire 8 Vandal redirecting telekinesis and telekinetic to a performer's article

[edit] Talk Page Archive

Archive 2 has been created with a link at above right. Archive 3, when needed in the future, should be a new page (same as creating an article) titled "Talk:Psychokinesis/archive3" and the link added to the template on this page's code. Some of the prior talk pages (notably Archive 1) may also have used the refactoring method of talk page management. To view other archived talk pages follow these steps: 1. Click on the "History" tab at the top of this page. 2. Click on any date that you wish. That's all you have to do. You will be taken to Wiki's archived talk page for that date. To find the very first talk pages, click on the "Earliest" link at the bottom of the "History" page and scroll down to the links at the bottom of the page. Permission is granted to copy this notice for use on other Talk pages. For further information on archiving see Wikipedia:How_to_archive_a_talk_page. Thank you. 5Q5 18:59, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] A couple of editing tips for use on this psychokinesis talk page

When discussing quoted material from the PK article, you can place it in a light green colored box by copying and pasting the code below.

Another method is to just indent one space on the talk page and then copy the quoted material after it. A colorless box then appears. However, you must include line breaks or it will run as one long line off the page to the right. This method may be easiest for quoting phrases or short sentences. Check out the source code to see what I mean. Use this only for quoted material, not for commenting on someone else's post (use colons to indent for that). 5Q5 19:07, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Tactile telekinesis - article disappeared from Wikipedia?

An editor rightly removed the wiki link for "tactile telekinesis" that had been at the top of the See also section for a long time because it now just redirects to the PK article. It looks like tactile telekinesis (one way of explaining Superman's and Supergirl's powers) has been deleted by someone for some reason as a wiki article. It can still be found on Google [1]. for at least awhile. 5Q5 15:10, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Poor article

This article has little info on for or against psychokinesis. It'd be nice to know the validity of it somewhat :) Genjix 20:37, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

No one has yet had the ambition take on the work of sourcing such a section.Martin^phi _{(Talk Ψ Contribs)} 22:25, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

We can click on "Other Languages" on the left sidebar on the main article and see what's on foreign language wiki pages for PK; albeit in a foreign language. 5Q5 20:08, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Grammatical forms section removed by editor - discussion requested

Editor Sparsefarce on 19:47, 27 February 2007 deleted the "Grammatical forms" section from Terminology without discussion calling it a "silly section which belongs in a dictionary." The sections been in the article for months without complaint. Any agreement or disagreement on this action. I authored it, but will go with the majority. The article is slim and it was filler material. 5Q5 20:04, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

The section might be usefull to someone. I would say, keep it for now. True, this is not a dictionary. I would however think that anyone with the ambition to do as much research as has obviously been done for this article would have a full discussion of the scientific results surrounding this phenomenon. Martin^phi _{(Talk Ψ Contribs)} 21:33, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Comment from 75.81.123.105 regarding Belief in TK section

A person editing the page from 75.81.123.105 added the following to the article. I moved it here since this is where it belongs. --Quintote 16:46, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

The survey question is terrible! If this wasn't presented on the psychokinesis page, a person could interpret it a million different ways none of which would be about psychokinesis/telekinesis. It is true that the word telekinesis was next to this question, but how many people know what this word alone means? For one I only knew the term telekinesis and never knew it went by another name psychokinesis, what if the participant only knew about psychokinesis and not telekinesis? -75.81.123.105

The section was larger at one time with more info (I originated it), but you know wiki editors... everybody's gotta get their tweak in. Here's what it looked like on October 11, 2006. 5Q5 19:14, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Questionnaire

Under "Belief in Telekinesis", there is only a single poll's result. Can this section be filled in a bit more? Also, is there information on where the poll was conducted and the ages, etc. of participants? (Telephone polls should not be the only source of data added, as they are self-filtering; most people when called at home do not choose to take them.) Noclevername 21:42, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes, there are a lot of polls, which say that the beliefs are widespread. No one seems to have access to the original Gallup (and other) data though. Martin^phi _{(Talk Ψ Contribs)} 23:36, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

The published survey is available by following the reference number to the link. I wrote a longer section once (see above). Someone else can try again. 5Q5 18:44, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vandal redirecting telekinesis and telekinetic to a performer's article

NEEDS MONITORING: A vandal with the IP 203.115.128.72 redirected the words telekinesis and telekinetic to the article for a Filipino model and TV host Mariel Rodriguez. I was able to fix the redirects. If it happens again, here are the pages where the codes for the redirects can be fixed: Telekinesis Telekinetic. 5Q5 13:18, 14 March 2007 (UTC)