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Task and info boxes

I think that there should be a template for tasks similar to the philosophy task box: Template:PhilosophyTasks. Also, I like their categorization scheme. It's good that you're focusing on high traffic articles, but the project's organization currently seems to ignore articles that need to be started from scratch and stubs that need to be expanded. A detailed review of a long article is a big project, I would guess that there are many people who wish to contribute, but are daunted by the task of reviewing a comprehensive article on a major topic. If the project were more accessible, this page and discussions might stay a little livelier. --AAMiller 30 June 2005 16:40 (UTC)

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It seems like Template:PhilosophyTasks is for major philosophy pages, which is fine, but I agree that there is a need for a way to improve even minor science-related pages. --Memenen 1 July 2005 13:28 (UTC)

There's a good deal of overlap between science and philosophy anyway. I think this List_of_topics_(scientific_method) is a good organizational tool. We might consider adopting it as a dynamic navigation tool. There's also the List of science topics which is great. I put the {{WikiProjectNotice|Science}} tag on the talk pages of those lists to link them here. The WikiProjectNotice renders identically with {{WPStructure|Science}} for some reason. Anyway its a good way to link discussions about articles to WikiProject_Science, and they're getting pretty stingy with the Template namespace. Quinobi 8 July 2005 16:46 (UTC)

• {{WPStructure|Science}}
• {{WikiProjectNotice|Science}}

General versus Scientific Readership

The following was prompted by this Village pump topic:

The pupa article is fairly typical of many biology-related pages. There are two main directions that such pages tend to move in. The first is a basic description of the topic for students who need help with their homework. Such articles tend to be uninteresting to scientists who actually know something about the topic. The second direction is towards including the types of information that are of interest to scientists. When a few people with scientific training start to take an interest in a wikpedia article, you start to see references and links to on-going research. Biology articles that have not attracted the attention of scientists tend to contain over-simplified generalizations that are technically wrong and ignore the interesting details of the topic. A vague sense of outrage or disgust may be the reaction of many scientists when they see a wikipedia article like pupa for the first time.

Wikipedia:WikiProject Science says, "a good scientific article should be understandable by the "general public", as well as interesting to the scientifically inclined."

I think pages like pupa should have a label like this: Template:Science:Needs Help

What-links-here census method

I've added a methodology for determining if an article has >500 what-links-here entries or not to the main page (Wikipedia:WikiProject Science). Courtland July 1, 2005 09:22 (UTC)

Growing WikiProject_Science

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POLICY DEBATE: Use of source code, mathematical examples and other examples in articles

Apologies if you read this message more than once - I am cross-posting variants of it to science, math and computing wikiprojects.

I have opened a debate on the use of examples in Wikipedia articles (mainly focusing on computer source code and mathematical formulas, proofs, etc.). It seems to me that many examples currently in Wikipedia violate Wikipedia policy, so I believe we need to either clarify or change the situation. Depending on the result of the discussion, this may result in a number of examples being summarily removed from articles!

WikiProject Foresight proposal

Dear WikiProject Science members, User:John_b_cassel and myself have started a proposal for a WikiProject on Foresight and Futures! Please come and take a look on the WikiProject Council proposals page [1] if this sounds interesting to you! We appreciate any tips and help! Zhanli2012 (talk) 01:56, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Big Bang#RFC: Religious interpretations of the Big Bang

You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Big Bang#RFC: Religious interpretations of the Big Bang. Polyamorph (talk) 09:31, 29 February 2012 (UTC)