Talk:Lord Lucan

er... why do we have this? Totnesmartin (talk) 18:57, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Mmmm. Let's see.  Pseudoscience - no. Cranks - no. Fundamentalism - no.  I give up.  Why do we have this?--BobBring back the hat! 19:07, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Tagged. Sprocket J Cogswell (talk) 19:09, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
 * There's some mention of conspiracy theories, which Jackiespeel left us to go and find on wikipedia. If s/he can't be arsed copying them over, why should anyone else? Totnesmartin (talk) 19:10, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
 * There are interesting conspiracy theories fitting the crank subsection of the RW charter, and there are, or may be, gzillions of mundane conspiracies to conceal the whereabouts of murder suspects on the run. The former may be on mission, the latter not, I think. Sprocket J Cogswell (talk) 21:58, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, the conspiracy here runs to "his powerful friends had him spirited away to a safe country" - Botswana or some such. Not really our line, is it? Totnesmartin (talk) 22:05, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

'Topic outside my main interests' - and just enough conspiracyitis to start floating the boat.

Perhaps another entry for 'the list of topics for the proverbial someone to develop further.' Jackiespeel (talk) 23:34, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Perhaps another use for the "vaporize" tab. 02:20, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

Delete
Delete. or have tons of boring articles about Amelia Earhart, Percy Fawcett, the princes in the tower, Jimmy Hoffa, Martin Bormann et bloody cetera. Totnesmartin (talk) 11:58, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete, or lump the whole lot of them into one page of disappearance conspiracies.  12:06, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete - or do as Aboriginal Noise suggests. Though even then I'm not quite sure what the mission point would be.--BobBring back the hat! 12:45, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

If there were a page 'Alien abductions - the historical examples' I would have added Lord Lucan. Format - brief explanation and ELs as appropriate (in LL's case the Wikipedia page) - and then 'the proverbial someones' can develop particular articles as they wish. (Would add the Marie Celeste to the list) Jackiespeel (talk) 12:58, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm not convinced that these mysteries are our sort of thing. Ok sometimes there's all the paranormal bumf around (eg) the Mary Celeste that someone can develop further laugh at, but for plain missing persons/people-who-did-a-runner cases there's not a lot we can say. Totnesmartin (talk) 11:39, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Perhaps a page with the long working title "List of persons who vanished for which it is not necessary to create RW pages unless sufficiently creative about it" - eg (ship)wormholes for the Marie Celeste, Lord Lucan, Shergar and Jimmy Hoffa involved in some sort of X-Men activity. This would resolve multiple-reincarnation-deletion cycles of such articles. Jackiespeel (talk) 15:12, 7 January 2010 (UTC)