Talk:Mentalism

message: You should add a ref to the TV series.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.207.164.6 (talk) 20:25, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Disambig to 'The'

message: Is it fair to say that a difference between a mentalist and a magician is that a magician will generally admit that he is doing tricks, while mentalists usually insist that they have supernatural (or metaphysical, however you wish to call it) abilities? That's been my (limited) experience. The last mentalist I saw insisted his powers were not illusions and he had psychic/telekenitic abilities. He was pretty convincing too, much more than any magician I've ever seen. Not that I believe him, but I was stymied. -R. fiend 00:23, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Magic vs. Mentalism

message: A series of edits have added an long and unwieldy list of mentalist performers to the body of the text.  Several of those mentioned are corporate and Vegas performers - not really "notable" in Wikipedia terms.  As an indicator of how arbitrary this list is, Luke Jermay has been removed several times despite the fact that he is now listed as an advisor to Derren Brown on his latest TV series and is well respected in the UK magic community.
It's proven time and time again too easy to secrete advertisments in these lists.
If a performer is notable enough to be included in this list, then they're notable enough to be moved to the "Famous Mentalists" section - otherwise they're just cluttering up the listing.  If there's no objection, I will Wikify the list in 30 days time, removing the non-notable and repeated entries and reordering those categorised xenophobically as "England, Europe and elsewhere". Mr Twain 02:38, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mentalist lists. 

message: I see little or no valid reason for the petition to merge these two entries.  A substantial amount of the "mentalist" entry contains material that is not relevant to the "mentalism" entry, discussing, as it does, different meanings of the word.  There's also a precedent for keeping the description of a practice separate from the description of practioners.  "Stage Magic" and "Magician" both maintain separate entries. Mr Twain 22:06, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: FWIW I'm amazed that the merge hasn't been made already.  By this standard every pursuit would have two articles: "cryptography" and "cryptographer", "archery" and "archer"... ciphergoth (talk) 16:55, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Merger sat proposed and not done for a long time, so I just did it. WP:BOLD and all that! ciphergoth (talk) 17:02, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merging "Mentalism" and "Mentalist" 

message: :Moving comment from anon user into its own section before replying to it ciphergoth (talk) 16:47, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Derren Brown and the supernatural

message: * http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=Mentalism+%E5%94%AF%E5%BF%83%E4%B8%BB%E4%B9%89+edu.au&btnG=Search&meta=
--222.64.26.148 (talk) 22:28, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  A Chinese translation of the term is based on the following... 

message: This section is poorly done.  For starters, Sherlock Holmes is listed as a historical figure.  Also, the link for "Weiner" goes not to an individual but a list of people with that name, and as near as I can tell none of them are the one being referenced (though several might be).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.1.225.206 (talk) 20:10, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alleged Mentalists 

message: I think it would be useful to include a section on techniques that mentalists use to practice their craft. I know it involves memory and cold reading but there must be more information out there on this subject. Since mentalists are open about the fact that they do not have psychic powers and there are techniques involved, I think it would be valuable to include some information on this. 63.143.219.45 (talk) 18:12, 23 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Section on Techniques? 

message: It's completely bs. Mentalism is a form of entertainment based on cold reading/suggestion. It has nothing to go with weird magical powers. 50.187.216.93 (talk) 06:47, 20 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  The lead 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: In recent months, I've gone down a mentalism rabbit hole - reading and watching all about it. They really are incredible! Will do what I can here to improve the article and remove the tag here. MaskedSinger (talk) 06:54, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Verification tag