Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Reported haunting of Alcatraz (2nd nomination)
Pointy nomination based on an invalid WP:FRINGE theory. Article was originally deleted without me being informed of the AFD and the consensus to delete was not apparent as had been claimed. Alcatraz has been cited in numerous reliable publications as allegedly one of the world's most haunted locations, it passes GNG with flying colours.. It is such a subject that it has at least 3 books dedicated solely to Haunted Alcatraz and countless books documenting it as being notable for ghosts. A search on a major newspaper archive picked up 2747 articles for it in newspapers, magazines and journals. JSTOR sources document something known as the "Alcatraz effect" in relation to psychology and also well document the Native American superstition to the island. As an encyclopedia it is not our job to decide whether ghosts exist or not but to reflect in summary what has been widely documented already. This is such a subject and the article is entirely written in a way which says "reputed" and and "alleged" and in no way tries to claim it as fact. We widely accept articles which document theories, folklore and superstition. It is clearly a notable subject and one which I think will provide a lot of interest to many editors. As for "enlarged mish-mash of |synthesis", most of wikipedia is written that way finding scraps from various sources and if you check all of the sources you'll see no original research or problems with verification. This is a respectable entry for such a subject and better already than most of our articles on similar topics and I'm sure I'm not the only one who can see this
— [[User talk:Dr. Blofeld|Dr. ☠ Blofeld]], 13:09, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:SYN (Wikipedia:No original research)