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'''WikiProject Rational Skepticism''' is the central hub for Skeptical Wikipedians to get together and work on improving Misplaced Pages.
'''WikiProject Skepticism''' is the central hub for Skeptical Wikipedians to get together and work on improving Misplaced Pages.


It was created on ], ]. It was created on ], ].



== Scope == == Scope ==
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'''The ] must be preserved where it exists and created where it does not exist.''' '''The ] must be preserved where it exists and created where it does not exist.'''


This ] aims primarily to coordinate the efforts of Wikipedians who wish to promote science and reason in an effort to improve the general quality and range of Misplaced Pages articles on various topics, while maintaining the NPOV. This ] aims primarily to coordinate the efforts of Wikipedians who wish to promote science and reason in an effort to improve the general quality and range of Misplaced Pages articles on various topics, while maintaining the NPOV.
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# To identify cases of fraud and other unethical/illegal activities undertaken by religious and quasi-religious organizations, as they often go unreported. # To identify cases of fraud and other unethical/illegal activities undertaken by religious and quasi-religious organizations, as they often go unreported.
# To improve those articles which need help. # To improve those articles which need help.
# To serve as a nexus and discussion area for skeptically-inclined contributors. # To serve as a nexus and discussion area for editors interested in doing such work.


===Guidelines proposal=== ===Guidelines proposal===
See the talk page for this discussion. See the talk page for this discussion.



==Project work== ==Project work==

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*] <small><sup>]</sup></small> &ndash; electrical engineer. 23:01, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
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*] <sup>] </sup> - My aim is to help present all articles as straightforward and unbiased towards their subject matter.
*] Checking on POV'ed entries and pseudoscience.
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*] ; wikipedia needs close watch :)
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* <b>]</b> <small>]</small> I'm an expert with almost all Paranormal subjects
*] - Interests: pseudomedicine. 06:12, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
*] - pseudoarchaeology, alternative medicine, neopagan historical appropriation
*] - creationism
*] -- all forms of quackery. At the moment, concerned with the systematic bias in the ] series of articles.
*]: creationism, new age religion, alternative medicine, etc.
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*:'''Reason''': I have other things that I need to be focusing on, so I won't be able to participate in this project as much as I'd like. I'll still be watching this page to keep up with current events. If you feel the need to respond, please do it on my talk page. 06:51, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
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*] <sup>]</sup> - Joined 1/31/06. I was active on pseudoscience articles, but I had to cut down on my Misplaced Pages hours, so I'm mostly inactive now.
*]: alternative medicine, quackery, transcendental mediation, creationism/Intelligent design, science & medical journalism, and other areas of pseudoscience --He blanked his user page and left with the comment "Misplaced Pages is really not worth the enormous effort to write and edit articles and protect them from the myriad of Vandal tribes seeking to plunder the popularity of this source. Fighting against the dishonest changes of anonymous, often Single Purpose Account editors, is just not worth it." Let's hope it's just a temporary bout of wikistress, but perhaps we can contact him and encourage him to come back. ] 11:29, 24 September 2006 (UTC)


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* ] has a number of claims regarding Velikovsky being shown "correct" in his theories or flummuxoing the academic communities that need to be vetted for accuracy.
:What, you mean the way the article states: "''Put most concisely, it can be said that Velikovsky's theories have been wholly rejected by mainstream academia, often vociferously.''", and where it notes that even in the few ironic cases where ideas V was lambasted for have made their way into the mainstream (e.g. extinction of the dinosaurs by an asteroid impact), the "''mainstream academia contends that its acceptance of such ideas has little or nothing to do with Velikovsky's work, which is generally regarded as erroneous in all its detailed conclusions by academia. Moreover, Velikovsky's unorthodox methodology (for example, using comparative mythology to derive scenarios in celestial mechanics) is viewed by most orthodox scholars as an unacceptable way to arrive at conclusions"''? I fail to see the problem.--] 14:51, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

* ] article under attack from newbie. Needs watching and probably reverting until (s)he learns to collaborate and edit properly. -- ] 19:30, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

* New article ] needs to be watched. ] ], 01:03, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

* Help newcomer with ], please! I'm new to "edit wars" and want to develop skills and techniques to make GOOD edits to these articles. I characterize changes on the talk page, address criticisms to my changes, etc. Please lend support and proper constructive criticism and help me deal with those who just don't want information presented, and how to separate them from legitimate feedback. &mdash;] December 21, 2006

*] - skeptic and rationalist from ], ] - article could use expansion, pictures, and more sourced citations. ] 11:56, 24 February 2007 (UTC).

*] and ] - These two articles, as well as a multitude of others if you look hard enough, need to make very clear that the existence of their subjects is thorough unsupported by science. This is analogous to requiring articles about fictional subjects to not be written in an in-universe style. I've tried doing this for the article ], but was promptly reverted for not being NPOV. --] 05:08, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

'''Urgent attention needed here:'''

* ] The article ] has been hijacked and renamed to the above by promoters of alt med.

-- ] 17:29, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

* Some piling on here, where the editing status of a trusted collaborator, ], is under ArbCom consideration: ] .... thanks, ]<sup>(])</sup> 09:28, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

* Would welcome input on this AfD: ]. thanks! ]<sup>(])</sup> 08:02, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

** Would welcome input on this ]. --] 13:15, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

* ] being used for promotion by the that sells the devices; ] concerns. &mdash; ] <sup>]</sup> 19:52, 15 May 2007 (UTC)


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The neutral point of view must be preserved where it exists and created where it does not exist.

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  • Immanuel Velikovsky has a number of claims regarding Velikovsky being shown "correct" in his theories or flummuxoing the academic communities that need to be vetted for accuracy.
What, you mean the way the article states: "Put most concisely, it can be said that Velikovsky's theories have been wholly rejected by mainstream academia, often vociferously.", and where it notes that even in the few ironic cases where ideas V was lambasted for have made their way into the mainstream (e.g. extinction of the dinosaurs by an asteroid impact), the "mainstream academia contends that its acceptance of such ideas has little or nothing to do with Velikovsky's work, which is generally regarded as erroneous in all its detailed conclusions by academia. Moreover, Velikovsky's unorthodox methodology (for example, using comparative mythology to derive scenarios in celestial mechanics) is viewed by most orthodox scholars as an unacceptable way to arrive at conclusions"? I fail to see the problem.--feline1 14:51, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Help newcomer with Quackwatch, please! I'm new to "edit wars" and want to develop skills and techniques to make GOOD edits to these articles. I characterize changes on the talk page, address criticisms to my changes, etc. Please lend support and proper constructive criticism and help me deal with those who just don't want information presented, and how to separate them from legitimate feedback. —Długosz December 21, 2006
  • Ghost and Qi - These two articles, as well as a multitude of others if you look hard enough, need to make very clear that the existence of their subjects is thorough unsupported by science. This is analogous to requiring articles about fictional subjects to not be written in an in-universe style. I've tried doing this for the article ghost, but was promptly reverted for not being NPOV. --JianLi 05:08, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Urgent attention needed here:

-- Fyslee 17:29, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

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