Talk:Alien abduction insurance

Out of date information?

I can't find any real insurance company that sells this insurance. The one mentioned in Florida clearly presents itself as a joke, and not as actual insurance. All the sources for the article are either out of date, broken links or of dubious veracity. (Someone posting on their website that this article was once in a newspaper is hardly a reliable source.) So even if it were once true that you could buy this type of insurance in the late 90's, it doesn't seem to be possible now. At the very least, this article should be updated to reflect that it is past tense.Subversified (talk) 01:11, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

How do you claim?

Thinking of taking this out, but am worried that if I have to claim, no one will believe me.--MacRusgail (talk) 15:49, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

As the article says "Of course, the burden of proof lies with the claimant.". Would you be able to provide incontrovertable proof that you were abducted? If so, I don't see why they wouldn't pay out - but for sure it wouldn't be enough for you to just say "I was abducted" in order to get the money. SteveBaker (talk) 23:49, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

I'm joking of course, but it's a difficult one. I suppose some kind of shrink or regressive therapist would count as a witness... --MacRusgail (talk) 15:26, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

I very much doubt that would be enough evidence to get a claim paid out! SteveBaker (talk) 20:07, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

Sounds about right. I bet there's a clause that says, "this insurance does not include impregnation in the event of a mass extraterrestrial invasion" as well...--MacRusgail (talk) 15:31, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Well if 2 people have been paid, then they proved it somehow, and who actually knows what happens when you get abducted? So in a way, people could make up their own evidence and who is to say that they are wrong when no one knows the true answer? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.122.237.252 (talk) 01:29, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Let's get to work!

This is the stuff that truly interesting FAs are made of. What's the first step? 50.193.171.69 (talk) 14:12, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

This definitely should be nominated for a featured article!Greg Holden 08 (talk) 06:21, 4 September 2017 (UTC)

PROD and tag-bombing

An editor put this article up for PROD and tagged it with no less than 9 concerns here, without any talk page explanation. Another editor and I have removed the prod and reduced the tags to three. The ones removed were:

• external links (there were none)
• advert (does not appear to be an advert at all. Article does not promote a particular company's product, or the use of the alien abduction insurance in general)
• ref improve (virtually every statement is referenced, and any dead links or substandard references are covered by the cleanup-deadlinks and unreliable sources tags)
• POV (the article is simply stating what insurance is or was available and what has been said about alien abduction insurance, without commenting on the existence of aliens or the probability of being abducted by aliens)
• lead rewrite (there is no lead, and creating one is covered by the sections tag)
• cleanup-reorganize (seems redundant with the sections tag)

If anyone thinks any of these tags are still needed please replace them and give an explanation. Meters (talk) 16:14, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

Thank you, Meters, for restoring common sense, not to mention dignity, to this vital article. --Seduisant (talk) 17:01, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

Weekly World News is a source?

This article states that the first company to offer alien abduction insurance has paid out at least two claims. The source is Weekly World News, a satirical tabloid. This is like citing The Onion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pjfront (talk • contribs) 21:50, 30 November 2014 (UTC)

Thank you, I have addressed your concerns. Royalbroil 04:43, 1 December 2014 (UTC)

Official sources

It would be nice to have some official source for some bits of information in this article, for instance something by the Prudential Regulation Authority (United Kingdom) or some other MiFID-provided source. --Nemo 11:31, 14 December 2017 (UTC)

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