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Albert Fish was one of the Social sciences and society good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

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Date	Process	Result
January 24, 2007	Peer review	Reviewed
February 16, 2007	Good article nominee	Listed
October 1, 2007	Good article reassessment	Kept
September 2, 2013	Good article reassessment	Delisted
Current status: Delisted good article

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Steampianist Song

The VOCALOID producer created a song called "Willow's of Wysteria", which is a song about Albert Fish. Currently the song has 9.1 million views on YouTube, in my opinion that would constitute the song as being culturally relevant enough to add onto the page. 2600:8801:1290:AC00:39EE:AEEE:40C9:5EB0 (talk) 21:04, 12 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This was discussed before, see the archived discussion. Nothing came out of it at that time. Do you know of independent reliable sources discussing the song? That would support the case for adding it, but I wasn't able to find anything at that time. Gawaon (talk) 09:31, 13 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Change "Bedden" to "Kedden"

I believe the name of one of Albert Fish's victim "Thomas Bedden" is misspelled. The correct spelling would be "Thomas Kedden". Most sources refer to him by "Kedden", not "Bedden" Amogusfortnitechungus (talk) 23:16, 29 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made.Slomo666 (talk) 23:31, 29 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thomas beddens letter

someone has decided to add a horrible statement "i did not f*** her tho i wish i had" to bedden's letter, please delete this ~2026-12620-67 (talk) 21:36, 25 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

See Wikipedia is not censored. cheers. anastrophe, an editor he is. 22:00, 25 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

You misread that. And nobody added it, it's part of the original letter. Gawaon (talk) 22:13, 25 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

And why Bedden, anyway? He had nothing to do with the letter. Gawaon (talk) 05:51, 26 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

In popular culture addition

I would like to suggest adding the following sourced entry:

The film House of 1000 Corpses (2003), directed by Rob Zombie, includes a "Murder Ride" sequence featuring an exhibit on Albert Fish.^[1]

The IGN review states that Captain Spaulding's ride includes "an exhibit on Albert Fish."

Thank you for your consideration. Janksr (talk) 18:50, 11 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

^ Bracken, Mike (August 25, 2003). "The Horror Geek Speaks: House of 1,000 Corpses". IGN. Retrieved April 11, 2026.

[1] Bracken, Mike (August 25, 2003). "The Horror Geek Speaks: House of 1,000 Corpses". IGN. Retrieved April 11, 2026.

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