Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stray voltage
Nothing remotely mythical about it.The original article was impermissibly POV and lacked references satisfying  but the rewritten article is ok, but still needs work. Electric utilities in dairy areas have endless headaches and spend a lot of money trying to remediate it,even though it is often due to the customer's equipment. It causes economic problems for dairy farmers. Even a volt or two of potential difference between the grounded or "earthed" neutral and the actual floor of a milking parlor can interfere with milk production. The normal editing process is the venue for removing any myths or pseudoscience which people might seek to add. In a hospital operating room similar concerns led to remarkable precautions to prevent differences of potential from supposedly grounded equipment.A good article can be written from reliable sources such as US Department of Agriculture Handbook No. 67, "Effects of Electrical Voltage/Current on Farm Animals. There is also "Ground Currents and the Myth of Stray Voltage" by O.C. Seevers, P.E. There was an article on this in Electrical World magazine in the early 1990's which would be found in college libraries. Far more than a dictionary definition. The present article may have gone too far in removing material about the earth current sent into the ground by utility ground rods having an effect on dairy herds, but that's an editing issue. To the other extreme, some farmers have irrationally attributed their own every ache and pain to "stray voltage." Stick to evidence from reliable sources
— User:Edison, 15:18, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:A (Wikipedia:Attribution)