WikiSynergy:To-do list

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• You can edit and improve any article. The Most popular and Site Map links under the navigation menu to your left are a good place to start. We are especially interested in controversies and issues surrounding skepticism.

Here is a quick tutorial on wikis

• You can start a new article on any controversial subject. We allow many different formats, and especially value FAQs and articles formatted as criticisms/responses. For example see Controversy in parapsychology and Parapsychology FAQ. Here is a list of articles on Wikipedia which we need to write, rewrite or improve. But see Importing articles below.

• You can start an article on yourself (if you are even slightly notable in the fringe/frontier community), your blog, you website, your book... etc.

• You can ask for help. We are here to help you if you are being picked on by the "other side" of a debate. One way we can help is to offer our own expertise, or try and get you in touch with the right people. Another is to issue a debate challenge where both sides of the argument are held up side by side so they can be judged purely on their merit, rather than on rhetoric or other devices. We may not agree with you. But we will do our best to help each side of any fringe debate show its best qualities.

• Red links: red links indicate that an article has not been created yet. Click on them to get an edit window.

Articles that need you

Currently working on: Logical fallacies and their use in skepticism. Do you have good examples?

Listing

Another list of articles which need help or need to be started

Lists on Wikipedia which might inspire you:

• List of skeptics and skeptical organizations
• List of topics characterized as pseudoscience
• Index of alternative medicine articles
• Basic parapsychology concepts

Other articles

A word or phrase that is red indicates that it is a link to an article that does not exist. Click on the red links to start the article. To request more pages, put the title between [[]] brackets at the end of the list below.

• Academic-practical peer apartheid: Academically trained researchers often maintain a separation between themselves and people who have only practical experience in a field. The cost is omission of important research and knowledge leading to myopic protocols and reports.

• Literature sources: Literature reviews which are conducted at the beginning of a research project to discover prior art are generally restricted to academic libraries and doctorate-level peer-reviewed journals. This omits virtually all of the work done by practical peers (non-academic people) with whom virtually all of the knowledge base is vested. To counter this narrow view, a list of web pages on the Internet should be developed that provide well-considered reports and articles that should be considered in such state of the art surveys. This list should categorized by frontier subjects.

• Literature source best practice: What are the minimum standards for a web page to be included in a list of literature sources?

• Faster than light travel
• UFO's
• SENS
• Living forever
• Auras
• Acupuncture
• ESP
• Miracles
• Spontaneous recovery
• Black swan
• Outliers
• Statistical anomalies
• Faith
• Levitation
• Teleportation
• Telekinesis
• Soul travel
• Spiritual plane
• Levels of existence
• Plains of existence
• Time travel

Importing articles

Importing articles from Wikipedia: we do not want to clone Wikipedia. If you import Wikipedia articles, please significantly correct or expand them at the same time.

We are glad to accept imported articles when they are highly relevant to our mission. And we are especially glad to have them if they appear nowhere else on the web— for example, the Zetetic Scholar recently came online. WikiSynergy would have been an alternate place to post them. But if an article is good enough, perhaps having a local copy will enhance the wiki, filling in necessary details. Please read our Copyright policy.