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WikiSynergy in a nutshell

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Here's what WikiSynergy is about:

A place to tell the world about frontier ideas and resources.

A place to explore controversy in a collegial environment.

A place to meet people who are interested in frontier thought.

A place to develop frontier ideas to higher levels of understanding.

A place to document and explain skepticism about frontier ideas, and discuss differences in a collegial atmosphere.

A place where the best arguments for and against frontier ideas can be gathered.

A place where those who hold frontier ideas can come for aid when they are under attack.^[1]

How it works

A given topic may have many separate articles. Proponents of frontier topics are welcome and invited to write articles expressing their perspectives (multiple articles are quite possible, written from different proponent perspectives). Likewise, skeptics are invited to write separate articles expressing their views on the topic. Each "side" will be able to develop their articles without being overwritten or whitewashed by the other. The hope is that the articles, and their challenges, will improve all articles on a given topic. The proponents will address legitimate skeptical arguments, and the skeptics will learn what parts of the proponents' presentation is legitimate. These articles on any given topic should all link to each other at the top. Different viewpoints can also be put in different sections or paragraphs of the same article, as long as editors are in agreement about this format.

As a result, ideally, a "cluster" of articles on any given topic will result - one or many articles from varying proponents' points of view, experience, and research, and one or more articles expressing skeptical points of view.

Collegial discussions and editor-to-editor arguments are encouraged on the talk pages, but should not be expressed in edit wars over each others' article contents.

In due respect of this site's desire to present frontier topics in a comfortable environment, the "simple" title of a topic (i.e., EVP) will belong to the proponent, and the "rebuttal" (if any) by skeptics (or pseudoskeptics) will be subtitles (i.e., "EVP, a skeptical view").