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Revision as of 07:03, 13 October 2006
WikiProject Rational Skepticism is the central hub for Skeptical Wikipedians to get together and work on improving Misplaced Pages.
It was created on January 9, 2006.
Scope
Dedicated to creating and adding to articles related to science and philosophy, while checking the POV currently present in various Misplaced Pages articles dealing with such topics as psychics, magick, "alternative" medicines, etc.
The NPOV must be preserved where it exists and created where it does not exist.
This WikiProject 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.
The goals of this WikiProject are as follows:
- To create new articles relating to science and reason.
- To create new Misplaced Pages articles regarding those topics not yet covered by Misplaced Pages, but which are covered by The Skeptic's Dictionary.
- To place pseudoscience tags on articles related to pseudoscience, fraudster tags on articles concerning convicted fraudsters, and add to criticisms sections where criticism is due.
- 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 serve as a nexus and discussion area for skeptically-inclined contributors.
Guidelines proposal
See the talk page for this discussion.
Project work
Collaboration
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To do
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- Open tasks:
Remove pseudoscience from the articles needing immediate attention.
Turn our Good Articles into Feature Articles.- Monitor the Fringe theories noticeboard.
- Improve our top-importance articles and high-importance articles.
- Improve:
- Subliminal stimuli - Includes some pseudoscience but no mention of such for WP:PSCI
- Illusion - Currently listed at article for improvement (WP:TAFI)
- Objections to evolution - From Good Article to Feature Article
- Correlation does not imply causation - Improve
- Allopathic medicine - Improve or merge (has been considered POV fork)
- Second sight - Has been proposed as mostly Celtic/Gaelic context of extrasensory perception but suggestions to merge in it have also been made. Recently called to attention via WP:FTN.
- Chris Kilham - BLP: Promotional tone and unbalanced pseudomedical claims
- Dosha - Needs mostly rewriting
- Maharishi Vedic Approach to Health - WP:PSCI
- Items inactive for too long can be removed
- Active subprojects
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Project team
Please list your interests and specialties.
Active members
- Matthew Provonsha
- Frexe
- Fyslee - Interests: chiroquackery, sCAM, homeopathy, etc.
- Pain
- Hitchhiker89 17:23, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
- CCMichalZ 17:27, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
- Qarnos 23:09, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
- Michaelfavor 02:41, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
- dino
- Andries
- Prosfilaes 20:07, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
- Krash (Talk)
- BillC – electrical engineer. 23:01, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
- Jredwards
- DartFrog - My aim is to help present all articles as straightforward and unbiased towards their subject matter.
- Lundse Checking on POV'ed entries and pseudoscience.
- MaxMangel Skeptic, with interest in false memory
- porges ; wikipedia needs close watch :)
- Bhumiya - My specialties are creationism, bioconservatism, and other political/religious topics, but I also have some experience with Scientology, astrology, etc.
- SuMadre- Interests: Creationism and Evolution
- Smiloid- Interests: Paranormal occult
- jpowell - Interests: sCAM and general quackery.
- fel64 19:10, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
- User:ScienceApologist
- Mulder talk I'm an expert with almost all Paranormal subjects
- David Mestel - Interests: pseudomedicine. 06:12, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
- TurabianNights - pseudoarchaeology, alternative medicine, neopagan historical appropriation
- Cybercobra - creationism
- User:Cri du canard -- all forms of quackery. At the moment, concerned with the systematic bias in the orthomolecular medicine series of articles.
- User:Davidstrauss: creationism, new age religion, alternative medicine, etc.
- User:Edhubbard: adding data from neuroscientific explanations, where applicable, for unusual experiences such as auras (see synesthesia), phantom limbs, out of body experiences, religious visitation (see temporal lobe epilepsy), and deja vu to combat bias towards mystical POVs.
- K-UNIT: interested in pretty much anything, with a major interest in the historicity of Religions, Abduction phenomenon/Sleep Paralysis and the like.
- xSAMIx. Have knowledge on paranormal and occult and believe that Misplaced Pages needs people who know about the subjects yet can remain neutral involved.
Inactive members
- Jokermage
- 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)
- Hob Gadling
- Same reason here. --Hob Gadling 20:09, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
- —Nightstallion (?)
- I lack the time due to other wikiactivities, but still consider myself part of this particular WikiProject in spirit. =]
- Same reason here. Feureau 10:46, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
- Bubba73 - 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.
- User:Askolnick: 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. Edhubbard 11:29, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
Community items
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Skeptic watchlists
A page for skeptics to post their watchlist suggestions, or links to their own watchlists: