Wikipedia:WikiProject Paranormal
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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]- 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.
- 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.
- To provide a scholarly set of terminology to describe the paranormal which is technically, culturally, and contextually accurate.
- 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.
- To ensure that each entry approaches its topic from a balanced and neutral perspective.
- To ensure that the notability of each topic can be gleaned from its entry, without the need for additional explanation.
- 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.
- To expand project stubs to full entries and to progress full entries to the next level.
- Patrol frequently vandalized pages within the project's scope.
Scope
[edit]Paranormal articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
FA | 3 | 5 | 2 | 10 | |||
FL | 1 | 1 | |||||
GA | 1 | 5 | 15 | 5 | 26 | ||
B | 6 | 20 | 29 | 63 | 59 | 177 | |
C | 8 | 13 | 55 | 152 | 105 | 333 | |
Start | 1 | 7 | 53 | 322 | 479 | 862 | |
Stub | 4 | 74 | 185 | 263 | |||
List | 1 | 4 | 11 | 26 | 15 | 57 | |
Category | 698 | 698 | |||||
Disambig | 9 | 9 | |||||
File | 17 | 17 | |||||
Project | 20 | 20 | |||||
Template | 20 | 20 | |||||
NA | 1 | 3 | 14 | 139 | 157 | ||
Other | 5 | 5 | |||||
Assessed | 16 | 46 | 163 | 672 | 908 | 850 | 2,655 |
Unassessed | 2 | 31 | 33 | ||||
Total | 16 | 46 | 163 | 674 | 908 | 881 | 2,688 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 7,803 | Ω = 4.67 |
Subjects covered by this project include (but are not necessarily limited to):
- Anomalistics
- Cryptozoology
- Paranormal phenomena
- Paranormal hoaxes and frauds
- Parapsychology
- Fringe science, protoscience, and pseudoscience
- Ufology
- Urban myths and legends
- unexplained disappearances
- Some conspiracy theories
- megaliths and similar
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.
This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by JL-Bot (talk · contribs) (typically on Saturdays). There is no need to edit the list yourself. If an article is missing from the list, make sure it is tagged (e.g. {{WikiProject Paranormal}}) or categorized correctly and wait for the next update. See WP:RECOG for configuration options. |
Featured articles
[edit]Featured lists
[edit]Good articles
[edit]- Area 51
- Borley Rectory
- Conspiracy Encyclopedia
- Curse of the Colonel
- F.E.A.R. (video game)
- Flight 19
- Flight 105 UFO sighting
- Ghost Alley Espresso
- Reportedly haunted locations in Washington, D.C.
- Hollow Moon
- David Icke
- Death of Elisa Lam
- T. C. Lethbridge
- Moberly–Jourdain incident
- Montpelier Hill
- Newton House, Llandeilo
- Nibiru cataclysm
- Occult America
- P.T. (video game)
- Panama Creature
- Piri Reis map
- Roswell incident
- Suspiria (2018 film)
- Wow! signal
- The X-Files (film)
- The X-Files
Featured pictures
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Líneas de Nazca, Nazca, Perú, 2015-07-29, DD 49
Featured article candidates
[edit]Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team release version selections
[edit]To-do
[edit]- Figure out what to do with old to-do lists...
Article alerts
[edit]Articles for deletion
- 24 Oct 2024 – List of West Virginia cryptids (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Fiveby (t · c); see discussion (9 participants)
Proposed deletions
- 26 Oct 2024 – Million Fax on Washington (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Nayyn (t · c): This event appears to be a lobbying activity on behalf of one organization. There does not appear to have been much news activity on this, beyond the lobbying group itself. According to the sources available, it did not appear to create a protest or ...
Redirects for discussion
- 30 Oct 2024 – List of Familiar spirits in popular culture (talk · edit · hist) →Familiar was RfDed by Utopes (t · c); see discussion
Featured article candidates
- 02 Oct 2024 – Roswell incident (talk · edit · hist) was FA nominated by Feoffer (t · c); see discussion
Requested moves
- 25 Oct 2024 – Witch-hunt (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Witch hunt by BarrelProof (t · c); see discussion
Deletion sorting
[edit]- Paranormal articles for deletion:
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Paranormal deletion[edit]
One good source for mothman, others are WBOY-TV and a local station's site w/ news. Only list of cryptids for a state, don't see categories or lists by country. Removed some sources before nominating. fiveby(zero) 22:01, 24 October 2024 (UTC)
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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.
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{{User WikiProject Paranormal}}
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{{User WikiProject Paranormal alt}}
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- Other
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{{User Paranormal2}}
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linked pages | ||
{{User Paranormal3}}
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{{User Paranormal4}}
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{{user paranormal}}
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Templates
[edit]- Paranormal navbar -
({{Paranormal}})
Stub templates
[edit]- General stub -
{{Paranormal-stub}} - Cryptozooloogy stub -
{{Cryptozoology-stub}}, {{Cryptid-stub}} - Parapsychology stub -
{{Para-psych-stub}} - Mythology stub -
{{Myth-stub}} - {{UFO-stub}}
- {{UFO-bio-stub}}
- {{UFO-book-stub}}
Boilerplate templates
[edit]Feel free to use these templates where appropriate. Any major changes should be brought up on the template talk page.
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Infoboxes templates
[edit]- Paranormal terminology -
({{Infobox paranormal term}}) - Cryptids and creatures/entities -
({{Infobox mythical creature}}) - Abductees, contactees, writers, researchers, etc -
({{Infobox person}}) - Paranormal events -
({{Infobox event}})
Barnstar
[edit]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]- Wikipedia:WikiProject Directory/Description/WikiProject Paranormal
- Recently modified entries in Category:Paranormal
- Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Paranormal#Final decision
Related WikiProjects
[edit]- WikiProject Cryptozoology
- WikiProject Mythology
- WikiProject Occult
- WikiProject Parapsychology
- WikiProject Skepticism
- WikiProject Spirituality
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.