Wiki143: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
- 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
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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
- High-level article categories
- Stub categories
Recognized content
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.
Featured articles
- Template:Icon 2012 phenomenon
- Template:Icon Bruce Castle
- Template:Icon Cock Lane ghost
- Template:Icon Cottingley Fairies
- Template:Icon Drowned God
- Template:Icon Ham House
- Template:Icon Mary Celeste
- Template:Icon Roswell incident
- Template:Icon Sisters at Heart
- Template:Icon Mary Toft
- Template:Icon Xenu
Featured lists
Good articles
- Template:Icon Area 51
- Template:Icon Borley Rectory
- Template:Icon Bury St Edmunds witch trials
- Template:Icon Conspiracy Encyclopedia
- Template:Icon Curse of the Colonel
- Template:Icon F.E.A.R. (video game)
- Template:Icon William R. Ferguson
- Template:Icon Flight 19
- Template:Icon Flight 105 UFO sighting
- Template:Icon Flying saucer
- Template:Icon Ghost Alley Espresso
- Template:Icon Reportedly haunted locations in Washington, D.C.
- Template:Icon Hollow Moon
- Template:Icon David Icke
- Template:Icon Death of Elisa Lam
- Template:Icon T. C. Lethbridge
- Template:Icon Moberly–Jourdain incident
- Template:Icon Montpelier Hill
- Template:Icon Newton House, Llandeilo
- Template:Icon Nibiru cataclysm
- Template:Icon Occult America
- Template:Icon P.T. (video game)
- Template:Icon Panama Creature
- Template:Icon Piri Reis map
- Template:Icon Suspiria (2018 film)
- Template:Icon Wow! signal
- Template:Icon The X-Files (film)
- Template:Icon The X-Files
Featured pictures
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To-do
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Article alerts
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Deletion sorting
- Paranormal articles for deletion:
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Membership
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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Templates
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Stub templates
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Boilerplate templates
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
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See also
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Directory/Description/WikiProject Paranormal
- Recently modified entries in Category:Paranormal
- Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Paranormal#Final decision
Related WikiProjects
- WikiProject Cryptozoology
- WikiProject Mythology
- WikiProject Occult
- WikiProject Parapsychology
- WikiProject Skepticism
- WikiProject Spirituality
Tools
- 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.
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