Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Overactive Imagination

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The result was Redirect to fantasy prone personality ~Crazytales (talk) (edits) 03:38, 27 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Overactive Imagination[edit]

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The article Fantasy Prone personality also exists - may be better to link to this as disambiguation perhaps? BustOut (talk) 09:27, 15 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Fantasy prone personality. That's where overactive imagination redirects, and the current stub is unreferenced, thus failing WP:V. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 09:42, 15 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to existing synonymous article Candleabracadabra (talk) 20:13, 15 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Behavioural science-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:42, 16 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. No RS, fails GNG. While this is a common English phrase, and is certainly used informally to describe people's personalities, I could not find any sources that suggested this is a formal term for a personality trait. I disagree with redirecting it to Fantasy prone personality, which is an accepted formal term in academic journals, unless some good scholarly sources suggest this is an accepted synonym in the scientific/psychiatric community; I didn't find any. Agyle (talk) 04:29, 17 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Fantasy prone personality. In reference to the concerns mentioned above, I have found a reference which equates “overactive imagination” with fantasy proneness [1] and another which states that it can be used to refer to fantasy or magical thinking as well as differences in creativity with negative connotations (The Oxford Handbook of Developmental Psychology, Vol. 1: Body and Mind, page 792), so they are used synonymously. Sarahj2107 (talk) 12:36, 19 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

By synonymy, I'm looking for an explicit statement, along the lines of "Fantasy proneness, also referred to as having an overactive imagination...", not just a reference that uses both terms near one another.

The first example uses "overactive imagination" independently, to support the correlation between fantasy proneness and reports of past life experiences. "Some researchers (e.g., Alcock, 1981) even go as far as to say that parapsychological occurrences, such as past-life experiences, may just be a 'product of an overactive imagination' (Irwin, 1990, p. 656)."

The second example uses "overactive imagination" on page 792, and "fantasy proneness" on page 804; the sentence on 792 is "Imagination is also used to refer to individual differences in creativity, sometimes with negative connotations (e.g., an "overactive" imagination)." --Agyle (talk) 20:17, 19 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The second example actually says "Imagination is often narrowly equated with fantasy, daydreaming, or magical thinking-contrasting with reality in reference to what has never or could never exist. Imagination is also used to refer to individual differences in creativity, sometimes with negative connotations (e.g., an "overactive imagination")". I thinks that's enough of a connection to allow a redirect. Sarahj2107 (talk) 07:18, 20 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

A connection to what? It doesn't say anything about "fantasy prone personality" or "fantasy proneness". Agyle (talk) 07:38, 20 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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