Wikipedia:WikiProject Paranormal

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 WikiProject Paranormal/Article alerts and WikiProject Deletion sorting/Paranormal is also strongly recommended.

Goals

 * 1) 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.
 * 2) 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.
 * 3) To provide a scholarly set of terminology to describe the paranormal which is technically, culturally, and contextually accurate.
 * 4) 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.
 * 5) To ensure that each entry approaches its topic from a balanced and neutral perspective.
 * 6) To ensure that the notability of each topic can be gleaned from its entry, without the need for additional explanation.
 * 7) 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.
 * 8) To expand project stubs to full entries and to progress full entries to the next level.
 * 9) Patrol frequently vandalized pages within the project's scope.

Scope
(Assessment log) 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 WikiProject Paranormal/Encyclopedic articles.

Categories

 * High-level article categories
 * Category:Paranormal
 * Category:Bermuda Triangle
 * Category:Ghosts
 * Category:Forteana
 * Category:Paranormal hoaxes
 * Category:Paranormal investigators
 * Category:Paranormal places
 * Category:Paranormal terminology
 * Category:Unidentified flying objects
 * Category:Cryptozoology
 * Category:Cryptids
 * Category:Cryptozoologists


 * Stub categories
 * Category:Paranormal stubs
 * Category:Parapsychology stubs
 * Category:Cryptozoology stubs
 * Category:Mythology stubs

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.


 * Full list: WikiProject Paranormal/Recognized content

Featured articles

 * 2012 phenomenon
 * Bruce Castle
 * Cock Lane ghost
 * Cottingley Fairies
 * Drowned God
 * Ham House
 * Mary Celeste
 * Sisters at Heart
 * Mary Toft
 * Xenu

Featured lists

 * List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events

Good articles

 * Area 51
 * Borley Rectory
 * Conspiracy Encyclopedia
 * Curse of the Colonel
 * F.E.A.R. (video game)
 * Flight 19
 * Flight 105 UFO sighting
 * Ghost Alley Espresso
 * Reportedly haunted locations in Washington, D.C.
 * Hollow Moon
 * David Icke
 * Death of Elisa Lam
 * T. C. Lethbridge
 * Moberly–Jourdain incident
 * Montpelier Hill
 * Newton House, Llandeilo
 * Nibiru cataclysm
 * Occult America
 * P.T. (video game)
 * Panama Creature
 * Piri Reis map
 * Suspiria (2018 film)
 * Wow! signal
 * The X-Files (film)
 * The X-Files

Good article nominees

 * Roswell incident

Version 1.0 Editorial Team release version selections

 * Reincarnation

To-do

 * Figure out what to do with old to-do lists...
 * WikiProject Paranormal/to do
 * WikiProject Paranormal/To do list short
 * WikiProject Paranormal/To do list full

Article alerts

 * WikiProject Paranormal/Article alerts:

Deletion sorting

 * Paranormal articles for deletion:

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.


 * Other

Templates
(Paranormal)
 * Paranormal navbar -

Stub templates
Paranormal-stub Cryptozoology-stub, Cryptid-stub Para-psych-stub Myth-stub
 * General stub -
 * Cryptozooloogy stub -
 * Parapsychology stub -
 * Mythology stub -
 * UFO-stub
 * UFO-bio-stub
 * UFO-book-stub

Infoboxes templates
(Infobox paranormal term) (Infobox mythical creature) (Infobox person) (Infobox event)
 * Paranormal terminology -
 * Cryptids and creatures/entities -
 * Abductees, contactees, writers, researchers, etc -
 * Paranormal events -

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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.