User:Rp2006

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My edit stats are [https://xtools.wmflabs.org/ec/en.wikipedia.org/Rp2006 here.]

I have two articles in this category. Only about 0.5% of Wikipedia articles are in this category, so I am particularly proud of this!

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And yes, I wrote (or greatly expanded) each of these. I did not just nominate a page someone else wrote and claim credit. :-)

class="wikitable" align="center" style="text-align:left" | Article |DYK Date & Archive Link |List Position |DYK Hours | Pageviews |Hook: Did You Know...

Alan Hale | 10/19/16 | 1 | 24 | 12,110 |...that Alan Hale, who discovered Comet Hale–Bopp (pictured), said that he "predicted" its appearance would trigger suicides{{mdashb}}and it turned out he was right?

Bob Cenker | 6/29/17 | 8 | 24 | 9,493 |...that RCA's only astronaut, civilian Bob Cenker, narrowly avoided catastrophe during his mission on Space Shuttle Columbia, which experienced several launch-pad aborts and almost exploded?

Science Moms | 12/16/17 | 2 | 24 | 6,462 |...that the goal of the Science Moms documentary is to challenge the anti-GMO, anti-vaccination, pro-alternative medicine culture affecting parents?

Bob Nygaard | 4/12/18 | 7 | 24 | 11,127 |...that Bob Nygaard, a private investigator specializing in psychic fraud, has been instrumental in the return of millions of dollars to victims of this crime?

The Photo Ark | 7/24/18 | 4 | 24 | 3,377 |...that in May 2018, the 8,000th animal was photographed for The Photo Ark project, which aims to document all 12,000 species living in zoos and wildlife sanctuaries worldwide?

Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots | 5/11/20 | 3 | 12 | 3,143 |... that the Netfix miniseries Unorthodox was inspired by Deborah Feldman{{'}}s memoir Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots?

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This is just so cool... Listen to the sound of Wikipedia being edited [http://listen.hatnote.com/ here!]

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• Bells indicate additions and string plucks indicate subtractions.
• Pitch changes according to the size of the edit; the larger the edit, the deeper the note.
• Green circles show edits from unregistered contributors, and purple circles mark edits performed by automated bots.
• You may see announcements for new users as they join the site, punctuated by a string swell.

Here are some articles concerning some of the most important concepts for successful Wikipedia editing, and one bad-ass essay on fighting pseudoscience and woo on Wikipedia:

• [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research#Primary.2C_secondary_and_tertiary_sources Using primary, secondary and tertiary sources]
• [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability Verifiability]
• [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Layout Manual of Style: Layout (Rules for See also, References, External Links, etc)]
• Wikipedia:Lunatic charlatans
• Wikipedia’s Arbitration Committee Decisions on Pseudoscience

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Alternative medicine/Popular pages
• [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:WikiProject_Alternative_Views_articles Alternative Views articles]
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Skepticism/Popular pages
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Paranormal/Popular pages
• List of topics characterized as pseudoscience
• Fringe science
• Wikipedia:Fringe theories
• List of questionable diseases

Looking for an appropriate citation template? See [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_index/Cleanup/Verifiability_and_sources here]

See here for my instructions on doing a DYK nomination.

See here for the official WP guidance on bias and POV issues. Also, here is: the Arbitration Committee Decisions on Pseudoscience.

The founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, once said the following. (This was borrowed from editor Roxy the dog):

:"Wikipedia’s policies around this kind of thing are exactly spot-on and correct. If you can get your work published in respectable scientific journals – that is to say, if you can produce evidence through replicable scientific experiments, then Wikipedia will cover it appropriately."

:"What we won’t do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of 'true scientific discourse'. It isn’t.[https://skeptools.wordpress.com/2014/03/25/wikipedia-jimmy-wales-responds-change-org-alt-med-alternative-medicine-cam/][http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/03/27/jimmy_wales_denies_petition_from_advocates_of_holistic_healing_about_wikipedia.html]"

So yes, we are biased towards science and biased against pseudoscience.

We are biased towards astronomy, and biased against astrology.

We are biased towards chemistry, and biased against alchemy.

We are biased towards mathematics, and biased against numerology.

We are biased towards cargo planes, and biased against cargo cults.

We are biased towards crops, and biased against crop circles.

We are biased towards venipuncture, and biased against acupuncture.

We are biased towards water treatment, and biased against magnetic water treatment.

We are biased towards electromagnetic fields, and biased against microlepton fields.

We are biased towards evolution, and biased against creationism.

We are biased towards medical treatments that have been shown to be effective in double-blind clinical trials, and biased against medical treatments that are based upon preying on the gullible.

We are biased towards astronauts, and biased against ancient astronauts.

We are biased towards psychology, and biased against phrenology.

We are biased towards Mendelian inheritance, and biased against Lysenkoism.

On the subject of Verifiability vs Truth, there are these conflicting WP essays:

• [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability,_not_truth Verifiability, not truth.]
• [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Truth_matters Truth matters]

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If you're new to Wikipedia and have not yet done so, I strongly suggest taking The Wikipedia Adventure which teaches you to "Learn to edit Wikipedia in under an hour." These are the badges I was awarded while learning to edit:

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