Jump to content

Wikipedia:WikiProject Paranormal

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Redirected from Wikipedia:UFO)
WikiProject
Paranormal
General information
Main project page talk
Participants talk
Project banner talk
Project category talk
Departments
Assessment talk
Collaboration talk
Newsletter talk
Peer review talk

Welcome to WikiProject Paranormal, a WikiProject that aims to provide a framework for the improvement and organization of articles related to the paranormal, anomalous phenomena and other similar areas. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask us on our discussion page.

Anyone is welcome to join by listing their username on the /Participants page and contributing to the project. Make sure to put our discussion page to your watchlist so you're notified of new discussions. Watchlisting Wikipedia:WikiProject Paranormal/Article alerts and Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Paranormal is also strongly recommended.

Goals

[edit]
  1. To provide a concise and accurate record of notable beliefs, organizations, experiments, individuals and events which are associated with the paranormal, including their history, background and their current status.
  2. To provide a framework (including infoboxes, categories, and examples of Best Practice) from within which scholarly entries about the paranormal, and related topics, may be produced.
  3. To provide a scholarly set of terminology to describe the paranormal which is technically, culturally, and contextually accurate.
  4. To seek out and apply verifiable mainstream sources to pages within the projects scope with the aim of A) addressing any issues of verifiability and reliability that have been highlighted in existing entries, and B) ensuring that new entries are of sufficient quality that their verifiability and reliability do not become an issue.
  5. To ensure that each entry approaches its topic from a balanced and neutral perspective.
  6. To ensure that the notability of each topic can be gleaned from its entry, without the need for additional explanation.
  7. To ensure that a clear dividing line is established between reporting the belief in/background of the topic in a scholarly manner, and advocating/denouncing the topic itself.
  8. To expand project stubs to full entries and to progress full entries to the next level.
  9. Patrol frequently vandalized pages within the project's scope.

Scope

[edit]

Subjects covered by this project include (but are not necessarily limited to):

The beginnings of a list of topics which are covered in reference books directly related to this topic can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Paranormal/Encyclopedic articles.

Categories

[edit]
High-level article categories
Stub categories

Recognized content

[edit]

The following articles fall within the scope of the project and have been noted for their outstanding quality. Project members are encouraged use them as examples of good practice and to note their different writing and organizational styles.

Full list: Wikipedia:WikiProject Paranormal/Recognized content
[edit]
[edit]

Good articles

[edit]
[edit]

Featured article candidates

[edit]

Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team release version selections

[edit]

To-do

[edit]

Article alerts

[edit]
Wikipedia:WikiProject Paranormal/Article alerts:

Featured article candidates

Requests for comments

  • 10 Nov 2024Bermuda Triangle (talk · edit · hist) RfC by Guninvalid (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Deletion sorting

[edit]
Click "[show]" to expand

Paranormal deletion

[edit]
Timeline of UFOs (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
(Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs· FENS · JSTOR · TWL)

Article was created by one editor to document, among other things, "institutional countermeasures against the UFO disclosure process". Originally titled Timeline of UFO investigations and public disclosure, it was moved by a concerned editor to Timeline of UFOs, as a stopgap measure pending further evaluation. Since then, there has been some discussion on the article Talk page from which it seems clear the article creator doesn't understand WP:INDISCRIMINATE, WP:SELCRIT, or why WP:PRIMARY sources (including links and citations to conspiracy-themed material like [1] and [2]) can't be assembled to WP:SYNTHesize an article in order to highlight a particular theme. There has been some peripheral discussion regarding the usefulness of a rewrite to create a generic "UFO Timeline" article, however I don't see any upside, since it would duplicate content already contained in List of reported UFO sightings, UFO conspiracy theories, Investigation of UFO reports by the United States government, etc. - LuckyLouie (talk) 15:01, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If anyone is willing to do it, I very much do see the upside in keeping it as a generic UFO timeline article. It wouldn't be purely duplicative if it incorporated material from several other pages in a different format. Otherwise, no opinion. PARAKANYAA (talk) 16:55, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]


Membership

[edit]

To join, sign your name at the /Participants page and add the main page to your watchlist. Members can add the following userboxes to identify themselves as members of the project. A list of members with these userboxes is available at Category:WikiProject Paranormal participants.

Wikitext userbox where used
{{User WikiProject Paranormal}} linked pages
{{User WikiProject Paranormal alt}}
This user is a member of WikiProject Paranormal.
linked pages
Other
Wikitext userbox where used
{{User Paranormal2}}
This user is a member of WikiProject Paranormal, which is dedicated to improving articles on paranormal subjects.
linked pages
{{User Paranormal3}}
This user is a member of WikiProject Paranormal, a project dedicated to improving articles on paranormal subjects.
linked pages
{{User Paranormal4}}
This user is a member of WikiProject Paranormal, a project dedicated to improving articles on paranormal subjects.
linked pages
{{user paranormal}}
This user thinks you're watching them. Watch other paranormal activity at WikiProject Paranormal.
linked pages

Templates

[edit]

Stub templates

[edit]

Boilerplate templates

[edit]
Feel free to use these templates where appropriate. Any major changes should be brought up on the template talk page.
{{WikiProject Paranormal}}
WikiProject iconParanormal Unassessed
WikiProject iconThis article falls under the scope of WikiProject Paranormal, which aims to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to the paranormal and related topics on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit the attached article, help with current tasks, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and discussions.
???This article has not yet received a rating on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
???This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.
{{WikiProject Paranormal user}}
{{blackproject}} - Notice placed on talk pages of articles that discuss black projects — "highly classified military/defense projects, unacknowledged publicly by the government, military personnel, or defense contractors"

Infoboxes templates

[edit]

Barnstar

[edit]

{{The Paranormal Barnstar}}

The Paranormal Barnstar
The Paranormal Barnstar, awarded to users who have made a notable contribution to the project

{{WikiProject Paranormal Barnstar}}

The Paranormal Barnstar
The Project Paranormal Barnstar, awarded to users who have made a notable contribution to the project

See also

[edit]
[edit]

Tools

[edit]
  • Cat scan - view recent changes to all articles in a given Category.
  • Duesentrieb's category tree - enhanced Category viewing, easily see parents and subcategories of a Category and the articles in them.