`Outdent It depends on what supports it being a fringe belief- of course, all the skeptic journals say it's fake and all the paranormal journals say it's real. A hypothesis isn't automatically a fringe idea from the day it's thought up. It really comes down to how many people stand on each side of the debate. If that could be quantified I think we could end a lot of the tug-of-war that goes on over the wording. Has a poll ever been done (by a third party, not one that purports or denies EVP) that tells what percentage of the population believes it is real? If it's a tiny minority, then of course it's a fringe idea, but if it's even close to 50/50 then it's at least not fringe thinking, even if it's not accepted by everyone. Of course, the argument can be made that the general public is gullible, etc., but for the purpose of an encyclopedia, that's about the best neutral indicator we could go by.  Come to think of it, having a numerical statistic in the article could eliminate some of the ``generally accepted``/``generally refuted`` type of word bickering, since we'd have it quantified.  It would really be great to get the initial wording down in an NPOV way due to how much the article contains already. There is a great deal of information included for both sides, with good sources, it just comes down to which side is right and which side is wrong, and that's personal opinion. And thought I'd point out about the definition, clearly some people disagree, because it started an edit war. It stands to reason that if a neutral ground isn't struck it will never be anything but an edit war.     `