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This is a WikiProject, an area for focused collaboration among Wikipedians.
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Project Paranormal
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Project Infoboxes:
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- High-level article categories
- Stub categories
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[edit] Quality articles
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.
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| WikiProject Paranormal is collaboration area for editors who are dedicated maintaining and to improving Wikipedia's coverage of the paranormal, anomalous phenomena and other related areas. |
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If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page. 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). For more information about wikiprojects please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices.
[edit] Mission statement
Project Paranormal's ongoing mission is to provide a centralized area through which its members can work to provide concise and scholarly articles pertaining to the paranormal — which comply in full to the standards set by Wikipedia policies and guidelines — while also maintaining the quality and integrity of existing articles.
- 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.
Subjects covered by this project include (but are not necessarily limited to):
- Anomalistics
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- The use of scientific methods to evaluate phenomena that fall outside of current understanding, with the aim of finding a rational explanation.[1]
- Cryptozoology
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- The search for animals hypothesized to exist, but for which conclusive proof is missing.
- Paranormal phenomena
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- An umbrella term used to describe a wide variety of reported anomalous phenomena, including any phenomenon that in one or more respects exceeds the limits of what is deemed possible/plausible under current scientific understanding.
- Paranormal hoaxes and frauds
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- Incidents in which an attempt has been made to trick an audience into believing that they are witnessing, or reading about, a genuine paranormal phenomenon.
- Parapsychology
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- The study of evidence for "paranormal psychological phenomena" such as telepathy, clairvoyance, and psychokinesis.
- Scientific inquiry which departs significantly from orthodoxy
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- Generally, the research that goes against current thought of a majority of researchers which usually entails something that is extra-ordinary or unusual. This includes elements from fringe science, protoscience, and pseudoscience, as well as claims of a more speculative nature that do not fall into the above categories.
- Ufology
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- The study of unidentified flying object (UFO) reports, sightings, alleged physical evidence, and other related phenomena.
- Urban myths and legends involving the paranormal
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- Modern folklore consisting of stories often said to be factual by those circulating them.
WikiProject Paranormal also covers many topics which have been associated with the paranormal due to myth, legend, and popular belief, or which have involved the presence of a mystery containing paranormal parallels but which are not strictly related to the paranormal (including instances where rational explanations have been established and accepted). Examples of such topics include unexplained disappearances; selected conspiracy theories involving UFOs and/or other factors that exceed the boundaries of accepted science, such as free energy suppression; and locations or objects about which unscientific beliefs exist, such as megaliths.
[edit] Entries
[edit] Membership
[edit] Barnstar
{{The Paranormal Barnstar}}
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The Paranormal Barnstar |
| The Project Paranormal Barnstar, awarded to users who have made a notable contribution to the project |
[edit] To-do / open tasks
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- These articles may require improvement to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. Please discuss the relevant issues on the talk page of the article. Please help improve these articles by expanding them.
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- These articles have been recently improved to meet Wikipedia's quality standards.
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- An RFC being listed here does not mean the project is endorsing the comments; simply that the relevant debate may be of interest to our members. Please use your own judgment and the various policies related to the forum.
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Franks Box. Ghost Box. The Ovilus.
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Feel free to use these templates where appropriate. Any major changes should be brought up on the template talk page.
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This 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. |
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| {{blackproject}} - Notice placed on articles that discuss military/govt. BLACK Projects, such as UFO testing, dealing with aliens. |
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This article deals with a topic widely reported by reliable sources to be an urban legend.
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.
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[edit] Infoboxes templates (full)
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| Template:Infobox paranormal place |
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| Owner |
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| Template:Infobox paranormal creature |
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| Country |
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| Template:Infobox encounter |
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| Alleged abduction |
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| Template:Infobox person |
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File:Image name
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| Born |
(Date of Birth)
(Location of Birth) |
| Died |
(Date of Death)
(Location of Death) |
| Education |
(Education Level, topic, location) |
| Occupation |
(paranormal Researcher, Ufologist, Cryptozoologist) *
(Primary field - non paranormal if exists) *
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| Template:Infobox paranormal event |
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[[file:{{{Image Name}}}|200px]]
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| Definition |
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| Signature |
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[edit] Related projects
- 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] Toolserver
- Main tool page: toolserver.org
- Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. automatically to references
- Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
- Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
- Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.
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