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* If a viewpoint is in the majority, then it should be easy to substantiate with reference to commonly accepted reference texts. * If a viewpoint is in the majority, then it should be easy to substantiate with reference to commonly accepted reference texts.
* If a viewpoint is held by a significant scientific minority, then it should be easy to name "''prominent''" adherents . * If a viewpoint is held by a significant scientific minority, then it should be easy to name "''prominent''" adherents .
* If a viewpoint is held by an extremely small (or vastly limited) minority, it doesn't belong in Misplaced Pages (except perhaps in some ancilliary article), reguardless if ''it's true or not, whether you can prove it or not''. * If a viewpoint is held by an extremely small (or vastly limited) minority, it doesn't belong in Misplaced Pages (except perhaps in some ancilliary article), regardless if ''it's true or not, whether you can prove it or not''.


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Misplaced Pages is not the place for original research such as "new" scientific theories. Specific factual content is not the question.

From a mailing list post by Jimbo Wales:

  • If a viewpoint is in the majority, then it should be easy to substantiate with reference to commonly accepted reference texts.
  • If a viewpoint is held by a significant scientific minority, then it should be easy to name "prominent" adherents .
  • If a viewpoint is held by an extremely small (or vastly limited) minority, it doesn't belong in Misplaced Pages (except perhaps in some ancilliary article), regardless if it's true or not, whether you can prove it or not.

For scientific theories:

  1. State the valid concepts,
  2. State the known and popular ideas and identify general scientific "consensus", and
  3. Individual ideas (eg. stuff made up) should either goto 'votes for deletion' or be copyedited out.

The following are NOT grounds for exclusion:

  1. Listing claims which have little or no supporting experimental evidence;
  2. Listing claims which contradict experimentally established results;
  3. Including research that fails to provide an experimental possibility of reproducible results; or
  4. Citing viewpoints that violate Occam's Razor (the principle of choosing the simplest explanation when multiple viable explanations are possible).

Further reading:

Other encyclopedias

Places that do allow original research include the Internet-Encyclopedia and Everything 2.