Talk:Stefan Ossowiecki

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I propose to change the first sentence (the lede) back to something resembling my original. It has been changed by someone to say that Ossowiecki "claimed" to be a psychic, which is, in my opinion, a departure from the "neutral point of view" ethos of Wikipedia. "Claimed" strikes me as either disparaging or at least questioning his status (or perhaps the whole notion of clairvoyance). According to the source book I used in writing this article, he was regarded by many people including the scientists who tested him as being an outstanding clairvoyant.

Thus, the lede would become something to the effect that he was regarded by researchers as a psychic.

Captqrunch (talk) 01:31, 22 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This article very clearly goes to far into la-la land. "he first exhibited psychokinesis" is an extremely POV-statement, for example.

Regarding the above, "claimed to be" is a neutral statement. Saying that "he was" is definitely taking sides.

"According to the source book I used in writing this article" ... well, yeah, but the source is clearly taking a side that psychics are real, which Wikipedia does not and cannot per our NPOV policy. Other sources (assuming anyone else has ever even heard of this guy) would regard him as not being a psychic. You can't pick certain views and promote those over all others. DreamGuy (talk) 14:25, 16 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Death

"Shot in public park" -- according to which source? A.J. (talk) 13:49, 17 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

10 000 people shot? at one? in one park? Never heard of that while living in Poland for over 30 and in Warsaw for over 10 years... It's maybe of my poor English, but this sentence seems unclear: 10 000 is total number of people killed by Nazi Germans in Warsaw drugin WW2? Or just executed in park/parks?. A.J. (talk) 14:00, 17 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Experiments

There was an experiment mentioned by Eric Dingwall that mentions Ossiwiecki. Eric Dingwall. (1924). An Experiment with the Polish Medium Stephan Ossowiecki. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 21: 259-263. I will see if I can find any reliable sources that cover this. Jack is a skeleton (talk) 23:21, 26 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]