Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Intelligent haunting
In https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Intelligent_haunting&diff=706533800&oldid=530538850 this diff I have listed some potential sources on the article talk page. Checking the logs for the page I see an unreferenced article by this name was deleted in 2007, so I began my search for sources looking specifically for ones that pre-date 2007 to avoid |circular referencing issues. I found evidence of its use among "paranormal researcher" types dating back at least to 2001 and evidence of its use in ghost fiction at least as far back as 2004. I found at least one book that begins to meet |reliable source standards and can be used to begin to re-write this article.  I found evidence of a page describing the concept published on the Appalachian Paranormal Center website as far back as 2002, and the current page there is an extensive treatment of it, which is also a usable reference, though it should be treated with caution (seems to be written and maintained by a pair of paranormal investigators or ghost hunters; I'd have to do more research on them before I could state with confidence that it's a RS). I found an excellent article in the South Jersey Times which is also a RS and gives an in-depth treatment.  The South Jersey Times article does not pre-date the Wikipedia page, but given the other results that ''do'' I am confident in asserting that this is not a neologism which has made its way from Wikipedia into the mainstream. Over the next few days I'll see if I can't re-work the article into something more acceptable
— User:ONUnicorn, 21:27, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:REFLOOP||WP:RS (Wikipedia:Verifiability)