Wikipedia:WikiProject Paranormal
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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in some of the articles related to the paranormal.
This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page.
For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices. To join this Wikiproject sign our participants section (though you may also find it useful to add some of our project pages, particularly the main project discussion page, to your watchlist to help become more involved).
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[edit] Goals
- Achieve, to the extent possible, a scholarly, generally agreed-upon, scientifically accurate, culturally accurate, and clear terminology to be used in paranormal-related articles.
- Edit selected articles concerning paranormal phenomena to achieve an accurate, verified, NPOV state.
- Expand Paranormal Stubs
- Fix the neutrality of disputed, high traffic articles
- Patrol frequently vandalized paranormal articles
[edit] Scope
The purpose of this project is to get articles within our areas of interest out of protection, disputation, and tagged status and create excellent, encyclopedic articles which have broad consensus and may remain stable.
Subjects covered by this project include:
- Anomalistics
- Cryptozoology
- Paranormal phenomena
- Parapsychology
- Ufology
- Paranormal Hoaxes and frauds
[edit] Showcase
The following is a list of articles within the scope of the project that have been noted for their outstanding quality. Project members are encouraged to peruse these at their leisure, as they serve as excellent examples of different writing and organizational styles that one may wish to emulate. Please note that the project does not necessarily claim any authorship or credit for creating these. While some were written by members—sometimes with extensive input from the project as a whole—others were created by uninvolved editors, or predate the existence of the project itself, and are listed here merely because they fall within our scope.
- Spring Heeled Jack
- Archaeoastronomy
- Atlantis
- Curse of the Colonel
- Extraterrestrial life
- Great Salt Lake
- Nikola Tesla
- Witchcraft
[edit] Did you know?
- George Stickney House - 15 January 2007
- Egyptian Theatre (DeKalb, Illinois) - 11 January 2007
- Plant perception (paranormal) - 29 November 2006
- St. Augustine Monster - 10 October 2006
- Curse of the Colonel - 9 October 2006
- Saqqara Bird - 13 September 2006
- Carnac stones - 13 May 2006
[edit] Formerly recognized content
[edit] Former featured articles
[edit] Former good articles
[edit] Open tasks
- Add all articles within the scope of this project to the Wikipedia:WikiProject Paranormal/Articles list by category.
- Check the recent changes function for improvements, other changes, or vandalism to these articles.
[edit] New articles
- American Association of Electronic Voice Phenomena (AA-EVP) (Stub) - December 2006
- Bermuda Triangle source page; this page is strictly a listing of sources related to incidents in the Bermuda Triangle, and the sources are growing to the point where it would be too much to list on the Triangle page.
- North Shore Monster - The Great Salt Lake Monster - Jan 20, 2007.
- David Sereda - Recreated Jan 24, 2007
- Bigfoot in popular culture split from Bigfoot - February 7, 2007
- Evidence regarding Bigfoot - split from main article February 12, 2007
- Cults of Unreason - March 2007
- Herne the Hunter - existing article but added to WikiProject Paranormal scope - March 24, 2007
[edit] Recently Revised Articles
- Paranormal vanishing now a redirect to Unexplained disappearances
- NC16002 disappearance - January 2007
- Loch Ness Monster - December 2006
- Anomalous phenomenon - December 2006
- Kasai rex - December 2006
- Bermuda Triangle - January 2007
- The Devil's Footprints - January 2007
- Flight 19 - January 2007
- USS Cyclops (AC-4) - January 2007
- SS Marine Sulphur Queen - January 2007
- Morgawr (cryptid) - February 2007
- Owlman - February 2007
- Trans-en-Provence Case - March 2007
[edit] Paranormal AFD Noticeboard
This noticeboard is for articles that are related to paranormal subjects only. Please only list articles relevant to this. Also, note that an article being listed here does not mean the project is endorsing the article; simply that the relevant debate may be of interest to our members. Please use your own judgement and the various policies related to the debate.
[edit] Active Debates
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of haunted locations
- Image:Paranormallogo1.png / IfD - 1 January 2007
[edit] Closed Debates
- Kenn Thomas / AFD - 17 January 2007 - No consensus
- 11:11 phenomenon / AFD - 20 December 2006 - No consensus
- Oz Factor / AFD - 22 December 2006 - Merge
- Tesla effect / AFD - 11 December 2006 - Delete
- Paranormal seekers society / AFD - 7 December 2006 - Delete
- Gin-Sung / AFD - 30 November 2006 - Delete
- Eth Bombo / AFD - 1 January 2007 - Delete
[edit] Tools
- Contributions by editor - view article history sorted by editor rather than chronologically. This allows all the edits to a given article by a given editor to be seen at once.
- 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.
[edit] Related projects and Wikiportals
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Occult
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Rational Skepticism
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Cryptozoology
[edit] Subprojects
(none at this time)
[edit] Templates
Feel free to use these templates where appropriate. Any major changes should be brought up on the template talk page.
- {{User Paranormal1}}
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This user is a member of WikiProject Paranormal, a project dedicated to expanding all paranormal articles. |
- {{Paranormal3}}
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This user is a member of WikiProject Paranormal. |
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This non-article page 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. |
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This user is a part of WikiProject Paranormal, which aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of the paranormal. If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks. |
- {{blackproject}} - Notice placed on articles that discuss military/govt. BLACK Projects, such as UFO testing, dealing with aliens.
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Because of the nature of such projects, the most authoritative sources (any involved governments and defense contractors) may not even acknowledge its existence. The most reliable sources may be highly speculative. Please ensure that the article is well and reliably sourced and does not contain unverifiable information or vague predictions. |
- {{urbanlegend}}
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It may reference highly speculative information unacknowledged by the government or other involved parties. Please maintain this article to conform with Wikipedia's standards for verifiability, notability, and future events. |
[edit] Stub templates
- {{Paranormal-stub}} - general template for articles related to paranormal
- {{Cryptozoology-stub}} - Notice placed on short articles related to cyrptozoology
- {{Para-psych-stub}} - Notice placed on short articles related to parapsychology
- {{Myth-stub}} - Notice placed on short articles related to mythology
[edit] Infoboxes
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| Grouping: | (Grouping) |
| Description | |
| Also Known As: | (AKA) |
| Country: | (Country) |
| Region: | (Region) |
| Terrain: | (Terrain) |
| Owner: | (Owner) |
| Status: | (Status) |
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| Creature | ||
| Name: | (Creature_Name) | |
| AKA: | (AKA) | |
| Classification | ||
| Grouping: | (Grouping) | |
| Sub Grouping: | (Sub_Grouping) | |
| Data | ||
| First Reported: | (First_Reported) | |
| Last Sighted: | (Last_Sighted) | |
| Country: | (Country) | |
| Region: | (Region) | |
| Habitat: | (Habitat) | |
| Status: | (Status) | |
| (Abductee Name) | |
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| Image:(Image Name) | |
| (Image Caption) | |
| Biography | |
| Name: | (Abductee Name) |
| Born: | (Date of Birth (Place of Birth) |
| Died: | (Date of Death) (Place of Death) |
| Abduction | |
| Status: | (Single/multiple abductee) |
| First Abd Date: | (Date of First Abduction) |
| Location: | (Location of First Abduction) |
| Taken from: | (Where the Person was Taken From, EG Car) |
| Abductor: | (Supercatagory of Alien doing the abducting) |
| Artifact/s: | (Implants?) |
| Media | |
| Book: | (Book of the Incident) |
| Film: | (Film of the Incident) |
| Paranormal Researcher | |
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| Image:(Image name) | |
| (Image Caption) | |
| Biography | |
| Name: | (Researcher Name) * |
| Born: | (Date of Birth) (Location of Birth) |
| Died: | (Date of Death) (Location of Death) |
| Education: | (Education Level, topic, location) |
| Resume | |
| Field: | (Primary field - non paranormal if exists) * |
| Paranormal Area: | (Paranormal field - if different from the above) |
| Affiliates: | (organization and group membership) |
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| Also Known As: | (AKA) |
| Participants: | (Participants) |
| Location: | (Location) |
| Date: | (Date) |
| Status: | (Status) |
[edit] Categories of interest
- High-level article categories
- Stub Categories
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Related WikiProjects
WikiProject Paranormal is one of the religion related WikiProjects.
