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 | |
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3 | 5 | 2 | 10 | |||
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1 | 1 | |||||
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1 | 4 | 12 | 6 | 23 | ||
B | 5 | 14 | 21 | 50 | 4 | 61 | 155 |
C | 6 | 10 | 45 | 132 | 3 | 107 | 303 |
Start | 1 | 6 | 54 | 270 | 38 | 480 | 849 |
Stub | 5 | 75 | 32 | 188 | 300 | ||
List | 1 | 4 | 5 | 23 | 18 | 51 | |
Category | 1 | 1 | 566 | 568 | |||
Disambig | 7 | 7 | |||||
File | 15 | 15 | |||||
Project | 11 | 11 | |||||
Template | 14 | 14 | |||||
NA | 1 | 1 | 76 | 78 | |||
Other | 7 | 7 | |||||
Assessed | 13 | 36 | 138 | 570 | 773 | 862 | 2,392 |
Unassessed | 2 | 76 | 78 | ||||
Total | 13 | 36 | 138 | 572 | 773 | 938 | 2,470 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 7,778 | Ω = 4.74 |
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). 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. See WP:RECOG for configuration options. |
Featured articles[edit]
Featured lists[edit]
Good articles[edit]
Area 51
Borley Rectory
Curse of the Colonel
F.E.A.R. (video game)
Flight 19
Flight 105 UFO sighting
Ghost Alley Espresso
Great Salt Lake
Reportedly haunted locations in the District of Columbia
Hollow Moon
David Icke
Death of Elisa Lam
T. C. Lethbridge
Moberly–Jourdain incident
Montpelier Hill
Newton House, Llandeilo
Nibiru cataclysm
P.T. (video game)
Panama Creature
Suspiria (2018 film)
Wow! signal
The X-Files (film)
The X-Files
Featured pictures[edit]
Good article nominees[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]
Did you know
- 21 Jan 2023 – Jailangkung (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Arsonal (t · c); see discussion
- 18 Jan 2023 – Empath (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Psiĥedelisto (t · c); see discussion
Articles for deletion
- 28 Jan 2023 – Jenia Meng (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Liz (t · c); see discussion (16 participants)
- 14 Jan 2023 – UFO-Memorial Ängelholm (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by LuckyLouie (t · c); see discussion (11 participants; relisted)
Redirects for discussion
- 31 Jan 2023 – The Sasquatch (talk · edit · hist) →Bigfoot was RfDed by TNstingray (t · c); see discussion
- 31 Jan 2023 – Bigsquatch (talk · edit · hist) →Bigfoot was RfDed by TNstingray (t · c); see discussion
Good article nominees
- 21 Sep 2022 – Roswell incident (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Feoffer (t · c); start discussion
Requested moves
- 29 Jan 2023 – Reportedly haunted locations in the District of Columbia (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Reportedly haunted locations in Washington, D.C. by Thrakkx (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be merged
- 20 Jun 2022 – Fringe science (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Fringe theory by Piotrus (t · c); see discussion
Deletion sorting[edit]
- Paranormal articles for deletion:
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Paranormal deletion[edit]Jenia Meng[edit]
I am not sure how to categorize this individual's profession but given the weight of this article upon her education, I'm going to say that she doesn't meet WP:PROF. In my online search get mentions of her in "the media", her website and social media accounts but being in the press doesn't equate to notability on Wikipedia. Liz Read! Talk! 01:52, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
NOTE: The following comment was posted by an editor who has edited this page both using the account Effortshitconsistentinvest and using IP editing, with the IP address 211.30.131.151. JBW (talk) 20:23, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
NOTE: The following comment was posted by an editor who has edited this page both using the account Effortshitconsistentinvest and using IP editing, with the IP address 211.30.131.151. JBW (talk) 20:23, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
NOTE: The following comment was posted by an editor who has edited this page both using the account Effortshitconsistentinvest and using IP editing, with the IP address 211.30.131.151. JBW (talk) 20:23, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
UFO-Memorial Ängelholm[edit]
Article about obscure statue depends on citations to mentions in unreliable WP:FRINGE sources: a selfpub Lulu book, two UFO websites, and a book by fringe author David Hatcher Childress. It may deserve a line or two at the Ängelholm article, based on a photo listing in a cultural heritage book:[1]. - LuckyLouie (talk) 19:41, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
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Membership[edit]
Project Userboxes
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To join, sign your name at the /Participants page and add the main page to your watchlist.
Members can add {{User Paranormal1}}, {{User Paranormal2}}, {{User Paranormal3}}, {{User Paranormal4}}, or {{user paranormal}} to their user pages to identify themselves as members of the project. A list of members with these userboxes is available at Category:WikiProject Paranormal participants.
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]
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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.