User:Christopher Thomas/Pseudoscience
This was originally part of my main userpage, and reflected my activities back when I was more engaged with Wikipedia editing. I've since retired from this sort of activity (too much stress and too big a time-sink).
Pseudoscience Windmill-Tilting
One of my hobbies has been to stem the proliferation of strongly-biased pseudoscience pages on Wikipedia. Attempting to delete the pages tends to fail for pseudoscience that's well-enough publicized to be Notable. Whether deletion succeeds or fails, adherents of the pseudoscience in question tend to find ways to return it to Wikipedia. Instead, I try to produce Neutral Point of View articles that accurately summarize the pseudoscience's core tenets (satisfying its supporters), while making clear its departures from mainstream science (satisfying its detractors).
=Articles that I've successfully revised=
- Anti-gravity, May 2005 ([http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anti-gravity&diff=13505492&oldid=13104127 diff] covering the rewrite) (this article has since changed beyond all recognition)
=Articles that I'm presently attempting to revise=
- None, at present.
=Articles that I've failed to revise=
- Harmonics Theory (sane revision archived at User:Christopher Thomas/Harmonics Theory) (deleted article later replaced with a useful redirect)
- Autodynamics (sane revision archived at User:Christopher Thomas/Autodynamics)
=Articles that have been deleted=
Note: Do not recreate these articles; they were deleted with due process and undeletion is a violation of Wikipedia policy.
- Harmonics Theory (original author couldn't accept any rewrite; article deleted as non-notable) (replaced with a useful redirect)
- Chaotic gravitational waves (deleted as original research)