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WikiProject Alternative views

heliocentric model
of the solar system as an alternative view in Ancient Greece. His ideas were rejected in favor of geocentric theories for over 1700 years. However, most alternative theories are proved wrong.

Motivation

Wikipedia's policy is to write articles from a

original research
, or to use sources that aren't verifiable and reliable. We are not here to correct real-world coverage. We are here to report real-world coverage. We are not here to counterbalance real-world sources. We are here to balance according to real-world sources.

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Scope & Goals

Scope

Welcome to WikiProject Alternative Views! This project aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of significant "alternative views"—those theories, hypotheses, conjectures, and speculations which, though notable, lack widespread acceptance, and which may challenge a "dominant view" which does have such acceptance. The project encompasses alternative views in every field, from the sciences to the humanities.

Goals

The project's goal of improving Wikipedia's coverage of significant alternative views breaks down as follows.

  • create articles about notable alternative views
  • work to make existing articles about alternative views factual and neutral
  • prevent articles about notable alternative views from being deleted
  • ensure that significant alternative views which are notable in the context of other articles receive adequate, factual, neutral representation in those articles
  • assist in the formulation and clarification of policies, guidelines, and other project-space infrastructure relating to alternative views
  • provide a support group and help forum for editors who are interested in improving Wikipedia's coverage of alternative views, but who may be unfamiliar with Wikipedia's rules and conventions
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Policies & Guidelines

Policies and guidelines

Editors working to improve Wikipedia's coverage of alternative views should respect the boundaries set by Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. In a nutshell, Wikipedia is an

undue weight. Proper implementation of the project's goals hinges on a good understanding of Wikipedia's notability guidelines as applying to minority views or hypotheses, a point addressed in detail at Wikipedia:Fringe theories
.

Articles edited by this project should adhere to all guidelines, including

WP:MEDRS
.

Assessment

This project has an assessment department. If you would like to contribute to or have questions regarding this part of the project please visit this page.

Alternative Views articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
FA 2 1 3 2 1 9
FL 1 1
GA 5 8 15 22 3 53
B 8 30 80 131 18 267
C 6 27 93 275 54 455
Start 2 9 62 414 80 567
Stub 1 4 52 17 74
List 1 4 7 18 1 5 36
Category 1 375 376
Disambig 7 7
File 12 12
Project 8 8
Redirect 1 5 27 89 122
Template 20 20
NA 1 1
Other 12 12
Assessed 24 82 270 941 525 178 2,020
Unassessed 1 1
Total 24 82 270 941 525 179 2,021
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 6,006 Ω = 4.21
  • 2.5% List-Class
  • 5.1% Stub-Class
  • 38.8% Start-Class
  • 31.1% C-Class
  • 18.3% B-Class
  • 3.6% GA-Class
  • 0.7% FA-Class
  • 0.1% remaining
  • Quality operations: A bot-generated daily log which lists articles Reassessed, Assessed and Removed.
  • Popular pages
    :     List of top articles with the most frequent views, updated monthly.


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See Also

See all subpages of WikiProject Alternative views here and here.

Relevant pages and policies

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