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Welcome to WikiProject Science pearls, a collaboration area and group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's lists of publications in science. For more information on WikiProjects in general, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and the Guide to WikiProjects.

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[edit] Goals and scope

WikiProject Science pearls is a Taskforce in WikiProject Bibliographies that concentrates on scientific bibliographies. All bibliographies in Category:Lists of publications in science fall within the scope of this project. In addition, a list of articles is provided in lists of important publications in science.

[edit] Criteria for lists

[edit] List as a whole

Lists of publications are frequently targeted for deletion on the grounds that they either fail to provide a Neutral point of view (because editors decide which publications are important) or they are the result of original research. Editors must be careful to avoid violating these policies. This is best done by satisfying the main Notability criterion for stand-alone lists: There should be at least one reference that discusses the list topic itself as a subject (as opposed to the individual items on the list). However, not every member of the list needs to be mentioned in that reference.

[edit] Inclusion in list

The Manual of Style for Stand-alone lists states that a list should have selection criteria that are unambiguous, objective, and supported by reliable sources. Each entry in the list should state why it meets the selection criteria and provide citations supporting that statement. Any entry not providing citations can be challenged and removed.

The current set of inclusion criteria can be found in this template for the lead section.

[edit] Organization of list

Many publications are important only to one part of the subject. The preferred organization for most such lists is to group them by sub-discipline.

[edit] Assessment

The assessment department gives details of our Quality and Importance statistics.

WikiProject Science pearls articles by quality
 Start   Stub   FL   List   Category   Disambig   File   Portal   Project   Template   NA   ???  Total
1 0 1 35 21 0 0 0 6 1 0 0 65
WikiProject Science pearls  articles by quality     Refresh
WikiProject Science pearls articles by importance
 Top   High   Mid   Low   NA   ???  Total
11 7 9 8 28 2 65
WikiProject Science pearls  articles by importance     Refresh

[edit] Templates

See: Wikipedia:Template messages/Lists and Category:List notification templates

[edit] Project

Place the {{WikiProject Bibliographies}} banner on all talk pages of list articles using the following code:

{{WikiProject Bibliographies|class=|importance=|science=yes |science-importance=}}

which produces output like this:

WikiProject Bibliographies / Science  (Rated FL-class, Top-importance)
WikiProject icon This article is within the scope of WikiProject Bibliographies, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Bibliographies on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.
 FL  This article has been rated as FL-Class on the quality scale.
 Top  This article has been rated as Top-importance on the importance scale.
This article is supported by the Science Taskforce (marked as Top-importance).
 

and includes the article in the project.

[edit] Requests for article improvement

Below are a couple examples of template code to paste at the top of a list section or list article. Paste the code with the curly brackets. The code is followed by what it displays.

This list has no precise inclusion criteria as described in the Manual of Style for standalone lists. Please help by adding inclusion criteria.

[edit] Userbox

User WikiProject Science pearls
Principia Page 1726.jpg This user is a member of
WikiProject Science pearls.

A list of participants can be found at Category:WikiProject Science pearls members.

To add yourself to the project add the following to your userpage.

[[Category:WikiProject Science pearls participants|{{subst:PAGENAME}}]]

Or, if you wish to use the userbox, add {{User WikiProject Science pearls}} to your user page instead as it includes the above wikicode.

[edit] Want to help?

[edit] Joining the list of participants

Those who want to help to the project can use the Userbox template. Or you can go to Participants and add yourself to the list of users for each page.

[edit] Open tasks

[edit] Top priorities

  1. To satisfy the requirements for notability of stand-alone lists and stop the frequent attempts to delete these articles, each list should be provided with a few reliable sources that justify its existence as a standalone list. The Source books in Science is one series that will be useful to more than one list.
  2. Clarify the criteria for inclusion in each list and revise the Lead section to reflect the criteria.
  3. Work on List of important publications in computer science. The decision on its AfD was no consensus, so it is still vulnerable.

[edit] Other tasks

The following articles were deleted and placed in project space:

[edit] Recent ...

[edit] Article alerts and cleanup

No Article alerts at this time.

[edit] Tools

Main tool page: toolserver.org
  • Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare 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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