User talk:Doug Coldwell/sandboxes/sandbox 90

Hello. I've tried to edit your version a bit here to try to show where I think you could rearrange your references. I've added a couple of {{fact}} templates, not because I don't think the sentances are true, but because they need to have the appropriate sources matched up to them. Also, if someone has written a good book about it, please try to use them as an inline source rather than write a sentence saying 'this person has written a good book' :-) Also, a page of google search results isn't really an appropriate source in an article. People use them on talk pages, and on the reference desk, but they're not a reliable source for articles. If you want to say that this phenomenon is often discussed in forums, try finding this written in a newspaper or book.

Finally, I don't think it fits policy to descibe your own videos as showing SLI, without a reliable source saying so. You could, however, say that they show what SLI might look like, if people think the videos really add to the article. Also, this article should probably have a little more information, or link to it, on how the lights normally flicker.

Hope this is helpful! Skittle 22:45, 23 February 2007 (UTC)Reply

A streetlight on its concrete mounting pole

Street light interference, or SLI, is an alleged anomalous phenomenon where a person seems to turn off (or sometimes on) street lights, or outside building security lights, when passing near them. A person believed to have this effect is called a "SLIder" by those who believe in this phenomenon^{[citation needed]}.

Although street lights sometimes turn off and on by chance (especially when at the end of their life cycle), most believers of SLI claim that it happens to them on a regular basis^{[citation needed]}, more frequently than chance happenings. SLIders propose various explanations ranging from the scientific to the paranormal^{[citation needed]}. Some propose that the electrical impulses of the brain somehow interfere with street lights^{[citation needed]}. SLI has never been demonstrated to occur in a scientific experiment, and claimed SLIders have been found to be unable to reproduce the effect on demand; they give the explanation that the effect is not within their mental and physical control.^[1] Anecdotes about people's experiences of SLI, however, have been reported in news sources.^[2] ^[3]

Media

The videos of SLI are large files and may take up to 20 minutes to download with dialup. However they only take about 3 to 6 minutes with most broadband internet connections such as found in research facilities, universities, colleges, and Wi-Fi hot spots (i.e. wireless, ethernet, cable, DSL).