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List of Intelligence Squared US Debates

Hi TheCrimsonLegacy! I am sorry to inform you that I nominated your article List of Intelligence Squared US Debates for deletion. It is outdated, hard to maintain and users are much better served by going to the site itself and looking at the current list of debates. Please don't be mad, I am just learning the ropes and was told that this is the correct way of doing this. But please, by all means comment on the articles talk page or here, if you disagree. RainyVision (talk) 01:41, 3 February 2019 (UTC)

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June 2025

Hello, I'm Doniago. I noticed that you recently removed content from Zombie without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the removed content has been restored. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. You claimed the content you removed was vandalism, but it appears to be sourced to The New York Times? DonIago (talk) 03:36, 21 June 2025 (UTC)

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Here is the text that I deleted:

"Zombies are real-life individuals in Haiti who have undergone a religious punishment called zombification for committing crimes such as rape or land theft. They are drugged, buried alive, exhumed and then enslaved by secret societies in Haiti. This practice became the basis for the zombie myth of a resurrected corpse."

Upon reading this passage, it immediately sounded like a clear case of simple vandalism on the page, especially when contrasted with the quality of the rest of the article. The claims of secret societies, unnamed mysterious drugs supposedly capable of making someone capable of being buried alive and living, and the sweeping claims that there are 50,000 of these people that are now enslaved by these secret societies, all given without any hint of evidence all point to this conclusion.

Since you reverted my edit, I have since done a bit of research and learned that there seems to be some small group of people that seem to have developed a myth or folklore which roughly follows some version of the claims made in this paragraph. So, although I am now aware that my suspicion that this was a case of vandalism was incorrect, I strongly feel that this section needs to be deleted or completely recontextualized. It currently reads as though these claims are facts, which they clearly are not. In the New York Times article cited, the article is simply showcasing an exhibition being put on by a single person who evidently believes these pieces of folklore to be factual. The New York Times did not fact check the claims he made and did not present them as facts in the article.

I ask that you please rewrite the article to make the fact that these beliefs are a part of the mythos surrounding the origins of the concept of "zombies", remove the section completely, or reply here with ideas of your own regarding how to improve the article. If no action is taken, I will proceed making an edit to the article based on what I've written above along with a number of new citations. TheCrimsonLegacy (talk) 23:30, 21 June 2025 (UTC)

I'm not familiar enough with the subject matter to adjust this portion of the article, but you're certainly welcome to ask at the article's Talk page so that editors who are more familiar with the subject matter can weigh in on the best way to proceed. Otherwise, I'm happy to offer what advice I can. It certainly may be that this is WP:UNDUE, but I'd be hesitant to label it thusly without supporting opinions from other editors. Cheers! DonIago (talk) 23:53, 21 June 2025 (UTC)

@Doniago

Thanks! will do! TheCrimsonLegacy (talk) 01:29, 22 June 2025 (UTC)