Wikipedia:WikiProject Rational Skepticism/Assessment

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Welcome to the assessment department of the Rational Skepticism WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Rational Skepticism related articles. While much of the work is done in conjunction with the WP:1.0 program, the article ratings are also used within the project itself to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.

The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{Rational Skepticism}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Rational Skepticism articles by quality and Category:Rational Skepticism articles by importance, which serves as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.

Contents 1 Frequently asked questions 2 Instructions 2.1 Quality assessments 2.2 Quality scale 2.3 Importance assessment 2.4 Importance scale 2.5 Requesting an assessment 3 Assessment log 3.1 July 8, 2009 3.2 July 4, 2009 3.3 June 30, 2009 3.4 June 25, 2009 3.5 June 20, 2009 3.6 June 16, 2009 3.7 June 10, 2009 3.8 June 5, 2009 3.9 June 2, 2009 3.10 May 18, 2009 3.11 May 14, 2009 3.12 May 8, 2009 3.13 May 4, 2009 3.14 April 26, 2009 3.15 April 22, 2009 3.16 April 18, 2009 3.17 April 14, 2009 3.18 April 11, 2009 3.19 April 8, 2009 3.20 April 2, 2009 3.21 March 30, 2009 3.22 March 26, 2009 3.23 March 22, 2009 3.24 March 18, 2009 3.25 March 6, 2009 3.26 February 18, 2009 3.27 February 14, 2009 3.28 February 11, 2009 3.29 January 31, 2009 3.30 January 23, 2009 3.31 January 14, 2009 3.32 January 9, 2009

[edit] Frequently asked questions

How can I get my article rated? 

Please list it in the section for assessment requests below.

Who can assess articles? 

Any member of the Rational Skepticism WikiProject is free to add or change the rating of an article.

Why didn't the reviewer leave any comments? 

Unfortunately, due to the volume of articles that need to be assessed, we are unable to leave detailed comments in most cases. If you have particular questions, you might ask the person who assessed the article; they will usually be happy to provide you with their reasoning.

What if I don't agree with a rating? 

You can list it in the section for assessment requests below, and someone will take a look at it. Alternately, you can ask any member of the project to rate the article again.

Aren't the ratings subjective? 

Yes, they are, but it's the best system we've been able to devise; if you have a better idea, please don't hesitate to let us know!

If you have any other questions not listed here, please feel free to ask them on the discussion page for this department.

[edit] Instructions

[edit] Quality assessments

An article's quality assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{Rational Skepticism}} project banner on its talk page:

{{Rational Skepticism| ... | class=??? | ...}}

FA

A

GA

B

Start

Stub

???

The following values may be used for the class parameter to describe the quality of the article:

• FA (adds articles to Category:FA-Class Rational Skepticism articles)
• A (adds articles to Category:A-Class Rational Skepticism articles)
• GA (adds articles to Category:GA-Class Rational Skepticism articles)
• B (adds articles to Category:B-Class Rational Skepticism articles)
• Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class Rational Skepticism articles)
• Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Rational Skepticism articles)
• Unassessed (for articles that do not have a rating yet; adds articles to Category:Unassessed Rational Skepticism articles)

Template

Disambig

Category

NA

For pages that are not articles, the following values can also be used for the class parameter:

• Template (for templates; adds pages to Category:Template-Class Rational Skepticism articles)
• Dab or Disambig (for disambiguation pages; add pages to Category:Disambig-Class Rational Skepticism articles)
• Cat or Category (for categories; adds pages to Category:Category-Class Rational Skepticism articles)
• NA (for any other pages where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:NA-Class Rational Skepticism articles)

Articles for which a valid class is not provided are listed in Category:Unassessed Rational Skepticism articles. The class should be assigned according to the quality scale below.

After assessing an article's quality, comments on the assessment can be added either to the article's talk page or to the /Comments subpage which will appear as a link next to the assessment. Adding comments will add the article to Category:Rational Skepticism articles with comments. Comments that are added to the /Comments subpages will be transcluded onto the automatically generated work list pages in the Comments column.

[edit] Quality scale

WikiProject article progress grading scheme [  v • d • e  ]

Class	Criteria	Reader's experience	Editing suggestions	Example
FA	The article has attained featured article status. More detailed criteria The article meets the featured article criteria: A featured article exemplifies our very best work and features professional standards of writing, presentation and sourcing. In addition to meeting the requirements for all Wikipedia articles, it has the following attributes. It is— (a) well-written: its prose is engaging, even brilliant, and of a professional standard; (b) comprehensive: it neglects no major facts or details and places the subject in context; (c) well-researched: it is characterized by a thorough and representative survey of relevant literature on the topic. Claims are verifiable against high-quality reliable sources and are supported with citations; this requires a "References" section in which sources are listed, complemented by inline citations where appropriate; (d) neutral: it presents views fairly and without bias; and (e) stable: it is not subject to ongoing edit wars and its content does not change significantly from day to day, except in response to the featured article process. It follows the style guidelines, including the provision of: (a) a lead—a concise lead section that summarizes the topic and prepares the reader for the detail in the subsequent sections; (b) appropriate structure—a system of hierarchical section headings and a substantial but not overwhelming table of contents; and (c) consistent citations—where required by Criterion 1c, consistently formatted inline citations using either footnotes (<ref>Smith 2007, p. 1.</ref>) or Harvard referencing (Smith 2007, p. 1) (see citing sources for suggestions on formatting references; for articles with footnotes, the meta:cite format is recommended). Images. It has images that follow the image use policies and other media where appropriate, with succinct captions, brief and useful alt text when feasible, and acceptable copyright status. Non-free images or media must satisfy the criteria for inclusion of non-free content and be labeled accordingly. Length. It stays focused on the main topic without going into unnecessary detail (see summary style).	Professional, outstanding, and thorough; a definitive source for encyclopedic information.	No further content additions should be necessary unless new information becomes available; further improvements to the prose quality are often possible.	Tourette Syndrome (as of March 2009)
FL	The article has attained featured list status. More detailed criteria The article meets the featured list criteria: Prose. It features professional standards of writing. Lead. It has an engaging lead that introduces the subject and defines the scope and inclusion criteria. Comprehensiveness. (a) It comprehensively covers the defined scope, providing at least all of the major items and, where practical, a complete set of items; where appropriate, it has annotations that provide useful and appropriate information about the items. (b) In length and/or topic, it meets all of the requirements for stand-alone lists; it is not a content fork, does not largely recreate material from another article, and could not reasonably be included as part of a related article. Structure. It is easy to navigate through and includes, where helpful, section headings and table sort facilities. Style. It complies with the Manual of Style and its supplementary pages. (a) Visual appeal. It makes suitable use of text layout, formatting, tables, and colour. (b) Media files. It has images and other media, if appropriate to the topic, that follow Wikipedia's usage policies, with succinct captions and "alt" text if necessary. Non-free images and other media satisfy the criteria for the inclusion of non-free content and are labeled accordingly. Stability. It is not the subject of ongoing edit wars and its content does not change significantly from day to day, except in response to the featured list process.	Professional standard; it comprehensively covers the defined scope, usually providing a complete set of items, and has annotations that provide useful and appropriate information about those items.	No further content additions should be necessary unless new information becomes available.	Avatar: The Last Airbender (season 3) (as of February 2009)
A	The article is well organized and essentially complete, having been reviewed by impartial reviewers from a WikiProject or elsewhere. Good article status is not a requirement for A-Class. More detailed criteria The article meets the A-Class criteria: Shortcut: WP:A? Provides a well-written, clear and complete description of the topic, as described in Wikipedia:How to write a great article. It should be of a length suitable for the subject, appropriately structured, and be well referenced by a broad array of reliable sources. It should be well illustrated, with no copyright problems. Only minor style issues and other details need to be addressed before submission as a featured article candidate. See the A-Class assessment departments of some of the larger WikiProjects (e.g. WikiProject Military history, WikiProject Films).	Very useful to readers. A fairly complete treatment of the subject. A non-expert in the subject matter would typically find nothing wanting.	Expert knowledge may be needed to tweak the article, and style issues may need addressing. Peer-review may help.	Batman (1989 film) (as of October 2008)
GA	The article has attained good article status. More detailed criteria The article meets the good article criteria: Well-written: (a) the prose is clear and the spelling and grammar are correct; and (b) it complies with the manual of style guidelines for lead sections, layout, jargon, words to avoid, fiction, and list incorporation. Factually accurate and verifiable: (a) it provides references to all sources of information in the section(s) dedicated to the attribution of these sources according to the guide to layout; (b) it provides in-line citations from reliable sources for direct quotations, statistics, published opinion, counter-intuitive or controversial statements that are challenged or likely to be challenged, and contentious material relating to living persons; and (c) it contains no original research. Broad in its coverage: (a) it addresses the main aspects of the topic; and (b) it stays focused on the topic without going into unnecessary detail (see summary style). Neutral: it represents viewpoints fairly and without bias. Stable: it does not change significantly from day-to-day because of an ongoing edit war or content dispute. Illustrated, if possible, by images: (a) images are tagged with their copyright status, and valid fair use rationales are provided for non-free content; and (b) images are relevant to the topic, and have suitable captions.	Useful to nearly all readers, with no obvious problems; approaching (although not equalling) the quality of a professional encyclopedia.	Some editing by subject and style experts is helpful; comparison with an existing featured article on a similar topic may highlight areas where content is weak or missing.	Usain Bolt (as of May 2009)
B	The article is mostly complete and without major issues, but requires some further work to reach good article standards. More detailed criteria The article meets the six B-Class criteria: The article is suitably referenced, with inline citations where necessary.It has reliable sources, and any important or controversial material which is likely to be challenged is cited. The use of citation templates such as {{cite web}} is not required, but the use of <ref></ref> tags is encouraged. The article reasonably covers the topic, and does not contain obvious omissions or inaccuracies.It contains a large proportion of the material necessary for an A-Class article, although some sections may need expansion, and some less important topics may be missing. The article has a defined structure.Content should be organized into groups of related material, including a lead section and all the sections that can reasonably be included in an article of its kind. The article is reasonably well-written.The prose contains no major grammatical errors and flows sensibly, but it certainly need not be "brilliant". The Manual of Style need not be followed rigorously. The article contains supporting materials where appropriate.Illustrations are encouraged, though not required. Diagrams and an infobox etc. should be included where they are relevant and useful to the content. The article presents its content in an appropriately accessible way.It is written with as broad an audience in mind as possible. Although Wikipedia is more than just a general encyclopedia, the article should not assume unnecessary technical background and technical terms should be explained or avoided where possible.	Readers are not left wanting, although the content may not be complete enough to satisfy a serious student or researcher.	A few aspects of content and style need to be addressed, and expert knowledge is increasingly needed. The inclusion of supporting materials should also be considered if practical, and the article checked for general compliance with the manual of style and related style guidelines.	Jammu and Kashmir (as of September 2007)
C	The article is substantial, but is still missing important content or contains a lot of irrelevant material. The article should have some references to reliable sources, but may still have significant issues or require substantial cleanup. More detailed criteria The article is better developed in style, structure and quality than Start-Class, but fails one or more of the criteria for B-Class. It may have some gaps or missing elements; need editing for clarity, balance or flow; or contain policy violations such as bias or original research. Articles on fictional topics are likely to be marked as C-Class if they are written from an in-universe perspective.	Useful to a casual reader, but would not provide a complete picture for even a moderately detailed study.	Considerable editing is needed to close gaps in content and address cleanup issues.	Exeter Cathedral (as of June 2008)
Start	An article that is developing, but which is quite incomplete and, most notably, lacks adequate reliable sources. More detailed criteria The article has a usable amount of good content, but it is weak in many areas, usually in referencing. Quality of the prose may be distinctly unencyclopedic, and MoS compliance non-existent; but the article should satisfy fundamental content policies such as notability and BLP, and provide enough sources to establish verifiability. No Start-Class article should be in any danger of being speedily deleted.	Provides some meaningful content, but the majority of readers will need more.	Provision of references to reliable sources should be prioritised; the article will also need substantial improvements in content and organisation.	Real analysis (as of November 2006)
Stub	A very basic description of the topic. More detailed criteria The article is either a very short article or a rough collection of information that will need much work to become a meaningful article. It is usually very short, but if the material is irrelevant or incomprehensible, an article of any length falls into this category.	Provides very little meaningful content; may be little more than a dictionary definition.	Any editing or additional material can be helpful. The provision of meaningful content should be a priority.	Cuthwine (as of August 2008)
List	Meets the criteria of a stand-alone list, which is an article that contains primarily a list, usually consisting of links to articles in a particular subject area.	There is no set format for a list, but its organization should be logical and useful to the reader.	Lists should be lists of live links to Wikipedia articles, appropriately named and organized.	List of aikidoka (as of June 2007)

[edit] Importance assessment

An article's importance assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the {{Rational Skepticism}} project banner on its talk page:

{{Rational Skepticism| ... | importance=??? | ...}}

Top

High

Mid

Low

???

The following values may be used for importance assessments:

• Top - The article is about one of the core topics of Rational Skepticism. Adds articles to Category:Top-importance Rational Skepticism articles
• High - The article is about the most well-known or culturally or historically significant aspects of Rational Skepticism. Adds articles to Category:High-importance Rational Skepticism articles
• Mid - The article is about a topic within the Rational Skepticism field that may or may not be commonly known outside the Rational Skepticism community. Adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Rational Skepticism articles
• Low - The article is about a topic that is highly specialized within the Rational Skepticism field and is not generally common knowledge outside the Rational Skepticism community. Adds articles to Category:Low-importance Rational Skepticism articles
• Unknown - Any article which has not yet been assessed on the importance scale is automatically added to the Category:Unknown-importance Rational Skepticism articles.

[edit] Importance scale

Label	Criteria	Reader's experience	Editor's experience	Example
Top	The article is one of the core topics about Rational Skepticism.	A reader who is not involved in the field of Rational Skepticism will have high familiarity with the subject matter and should be able to relate to the topic easily.	Articles in this importance range are written in mostly generic terms, leaving technical terms and descriptions for more specialized pages.	Scientific skepticism
High	The article covers a topic that is vital to understanding Rational Skepticism.	A reader who is not involved in the field of Rational Skepticism will have a reasonable level of familiarity with the subject matter, but may need clarifications for some of the more technical terminology.	Articles in this importance range are written in mostly generic terms, however with more specificity and technical terms than the Top-importance articles.
Mid	The article covers a topic that has a strong but not vital role in the history of Rational Skepticism.	Many readers will be familiar with the topic being discussed, but a larger majority of readers may have only cursory knowledge of the overall subject.	Articles at this level will cover subjects that are well known but not necessarily vital to understand Rational Skepticism, such as specific aspects of Rational Skepticism. Due to the topics covered at this level, Mid-importance articles will generally have more technical terms used in the article text. Most people involved in Rational Skepticism will be rated in this level.
Low	The article is not required knowledge for a broad understanding of Rational Skepticism.	Few readers outside the Rational Skepticism field or that are not adherents to it may be familiar with the subject matter. It is likely that the reader does not know anything at all about the subject before reading the article.	Articles at this range of importance will often delve into the minutiae of Rational Skepticism, using technical terms (and defining them) as needed. Topics included at this level include most practices and infrastructure of Rational Skepticism.	Bates method

[edit] Requesting an assessment

If you have made significant changes to an article and would like an outside opinion on a new rating for it, please feel free to list it below.

• Conspiracy Theory

[edit] Assessment log

Rational Skepticism articles: Index · Statistics · Log

The logs in this section are generated automatically (on a daily basis); please don't add entries to them by hand.

This is a log of operations by a bot. The contents of this page are unlikely to need human editing. In particular, links should not be disambiguated as this is a historical record.

[edit] July 8, 2009

• Socionics (typology) (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) renamed to Socionics

[edit] July 4, 2009

• Life extension (talk) B-Class (No-Class) renamed to Anti-aging medicine
• Socionics (esoterism) (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Boiling frog (talk) GA-Class (No-Class) added.
• Mary Tofts (talk) Start-Class (No-Class) added.

[edit] June 30, 2009

• Chinese ghosts (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) renamed to List of supernatural beings in Chinese folklore
• List of scientists opposing the APS position on global warming (talk) List-Class (No-Class) added.

[edit] June 25, 2009

• James Adair (talk) Start-Class (No-Class) renamed to James Makittrick Adair
• Chakra reassessed from B-Class (No-Class) to C-Class (No-Class)
• Physics of the Impossible reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (Low-Class)

[edit] June 20, 2009

• Penn & Teller reassessed from C-Class (Mid-Class) to Start-Class (Mid-Class)
• British Chiropractic Association (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.
• Electromagnetic theories of consciousness reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (Low-Class)
• Richard Saunders (skeptic) (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Socionics (typology) (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.

[edit] June 16, 2009

• Hybrid-origin (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Telepathy and war (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Global warming controversy (talk) B-Class (Mid-Class) added.
• Socionics (esoterism) (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.

[edit] June 10, 2009

• Telepathy and war (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Urban legends about illegal drugs (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.

[edit] June 5, 2009

• Edinburgh Vaults (talk) Start-Class (No-Class) added.
• 2012 doomsday prediction (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Physics of the Impossible (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• The Whaley House (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.

[edit] June 2, 2009

• United States gravity control propulsion research (1955 - 1974) (talk) C-Class (No-Class) renamed to United States gravity control propulsion research (1955–1974)
• Michael Talbot (talk) Start-Class (No-Class) renamed to Michael Coleman Talbot
• Shadow people reassessed from B-Class (No-Class) to B-Class (Mid-Class)
• Kirlian photography (talk) Start-Class (No-Class) added.
• Psychic detective (talk) Start-Class (No-Class) added.
• Terence Hines (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
• After-death communication (talk) Stub-Class (No-Class) added.
• Folk medicine reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to Stub-Class (No-Class)
• Radiesthesia (talk) Stub-Class (No-Class) added.
• Grootslang (talk) Unassessed-Class (Low-Class) added.
• Aurelia and Blue Moon (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• William J. A. Bailey (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.

[edit] May 18, 2009

• Magick (talk) B-Class (Mid-Class) renamed to Magick (Aleister Crowley)
• International Association for New Science reassessed from Stub-Class (No-Class) to Stub-Class (Low-Class)
• World Trade Center controlled demolition conspiracy theories (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.

[edit] May 14, 2009

• Noni (talk) B-Class (No-Class) added.
• National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomena reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to C-Class (No-Class)

[edit] May 8, 2009

• List of alternative medicine subjects (talk) List-Class (Mid-Class) renamed to Index of alternative medicine articles
• Emerald Tablet (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.
• Flower of Life (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.

[edit] May 4, 2009

• Electromagnetic therapy (talk) Start-Class (No-Class) renamed to Electromagnetic therapy (alternative medicine)
• Hundredth Monkey Effect (talk) Start-Class (No-Class) renamed to Hundredth-monkey effect
• New Energy Times (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.
• UFO sightings in Argentina (talk) List-Class (No-Class) added.
• UFO sightings in Belgium (talk) List-Class (No-Class) added.
• Dionisio Llanca abduction (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Miracle (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Panayiotis Zavos (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.

[edit] April 26, 2009

• U.S. Food and Drug Administration (talk) B-Class (Mid-Class) renamed to Food and Drug Administration (United States)
• Philoprogenitiveness (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.

[edit] April 22, 2009

• New Age spirituality (talk) B-Class (Mid-Class) renamed to New Age
• Expanding Earth reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to C-Class (No-Class)
• Tattwas (talk) Start-Class (No-Class) added.

[edit] April 18, 2009

• New Age (talk) B-Class (Mid-Class) renamed to New Age spirituality
• Darwinism (talk) C-Class (Mid-Class) added.
• Orang Pendek (talk) C-Class (Mid-Class) added.
• Pat Robertson controversies reassessed from Unassessed-Class (Low-Class) to C-Class (Low-Class)
• Bigfoot in popular culture (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.
• Orthopathy (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.
• List of cryptids (talk) List-Class (Mid-Class) added.
• List of reported lake monsters (talk) List-Class (Low-Class) added.
• Perceptions of religious imagery in natural phenomena (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.

[edit] April 14, 2009

• Truthiness reassessed from FA-Class (No-Class) to FA-Class (Low-Class)
• Extraterrestrial life reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to GA-Class (Mid-Class)
• Gillian McKeith reassessed from GA-Class (No-Class) to GA-Class (Mid-Class)
• Archaeoraptor reassessed from GA-Class (No-Class) to GA-Class (Low-Class)
• Flight 19 reassessed from GA-Class (No-Class) to GA-Class (Low-Class)
• Anti-vaccinationist reassessed from B-Class (No-Class) to B-Class (Top-Class)
• Scientific method reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to B-Class (Top-Class)
• Alternative medicine reassessed from B-Class (No-Class) to B-Class (High-Class)
• Astrology reassessed from B-Class (No-Class) to B-Class (High-Class)
• Conspiracy theory reassessed from B-Class (No-Class) to B-Class (High-Class)
• Creation–evolution controversy reassessed from B-Class (No-Class) to B-Class (High-Class)
• Crop circle reassessed from B-Class (No-Class) to B-Class (High-Class)
• Extrasensory perception reassessed from B-Class (No-Class) to B-Class (High-Class)
• Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to B-Class (High-Class)
• MMR vaccine controversy reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to B-Class (High-Class)
• Vaccine controversy reassessed from B-Class (No-Class) to B-Class (High-Class)
• Apollo Moon Landing hoax conspiracy theories reassessed from B-Class (No-Class) to B-Class (Mid-Class)
• Blind experiment reassessed from B-Class (No-Class) to B-Class (Mid-Class)
• Center for Inquiry reassessed from B-Class (No-Class) to B-Class (Mid-Class)
• Confirmation bias reassessed from B-Class (No-Class) to B-Class (Mid-Class)
• Crank (person) reassessed from B-Class (No-Class) to B-Class (Mid-Class)
• L. Ron Hubbard reassessed from B-Class (No-Class) to B-Class (Mid-Class)
• MMR vaccine reassessed from B-Class (No-Class) to B-Class (Mid-Class)
• New Age reassessed from B-Class (No-Class) to B-Class (Mid-Class)
• Osteopathy reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to B-Class (Mid-Class)
• PZ Myers reassessed from B-Class (No-Class) to B-Class (Mid-Class)
• Peer review reassessed from B-Class (No-Class) to B-Class (Mid-Class)
• Penn & Teller: Bullshit! reassessed from B-Class (No-Class) to B-Class (Mid-Class)
• Placebo reassessed from B-Class (No-Class) to B-Class (Mid-Class)
• Project Alpha reassessed from B-Class (No-Class) to B-Class (Mid-Class)
• Psychic surgery reassessed from B-Class (No-Class) to B-Class (Mid-Class)
• Psychokinesis reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to B-Class (Mid-Class)
• Reiki reassessed from B-Class (No-Class) to B-Class (Mid-Class)
• U.S. Food and Drug Administration reassessed from B-Class (No-Class) to B-Class (Mid-Class)
• Vertebral subluxation reassessed from B-Class (No-Class) to B-Class (Mid-Class)
• Chemtrail conspiracy theory reassessed from Start-Class (Low-Class) to B-Class (Low-Class)
• E-meter reassessed from B-Class (No-Class) to B-Class (Low-Class)
• Growing Earth hypothesis reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to B-Class (Low-Class)
• Metaphysics reassessed from B-Class (No-Class) to B-Class (Low-Class)
• Piltdown Man reassessed from B-Class (No-Class) to B-Class (Low-Class)
• Satanic ritual abuse reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to B-Class (Low-Class)
• What the Bleep Do We Know!? reassessed from B-Class (No-Class) to B-Class (Low-Class)
• Wow! signal reassessed from B-Class (No-Class) to B-Class (Low-Class)
• Skepticism reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to C-Class (Top-Class)
• Ghost reassessed from C-Class (No-Class) to C-Class (High-Class)
• Scientific consensus reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to C-Class (High-Class)
• Champ (cryptozoology) reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to C-Class (Mid-Class)
• Chromotherapy reassessed from B-Class (No-Class) to C-Class (Mid-Class)
• Dianetics reassessed from C-Class (No-Class) to C-Class (Mid-Class)
• Flying saucer reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to C-Class (Mid-Class)
• Greys reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to C-Class (Mid-Class)
• Little green men reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to C-Class (Mid-Class)
• Lunar effect reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to C-Class (Mid-Class)
• Michael Shermer reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to C-Class (Mid-Class)
• Past life regression reassessed from C-Class (No-Class) to C-Class (Mid-Class)
• Penn & Teller reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to C-Class (Mid-Class)
• Penn Jillette reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to C-Class (Mid-Class)
• Phrenology reassessed from C-Class (No-Class) to C-Class (Mid-Class)
• Quackery reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to C-Class (Mid-Class)
• Quantum mysticism reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to C-Class (Mid-Class)
• Reptilian humanoid reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to C-Class (Mid-Class)
• Richard C. Hoagland reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to C-Class (Mid-Class)
• Scientific misconduct reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to C-Class (Mid-Class)
• UFO conspiracy theory reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to C-Class (Mid-Class)
• Autism's False Prophets reassessed from C-Class (No-Class) to C-Class (Low-Class)
• Dihydrogen monoxide hoax reassessed from C-Class (No-Class) to C-Class (Low-Class)
• Donna Kossy (talk) C-Class (Low-Class) added.
• Firewalking reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to C-Class (Low-Class)
• Ian Stevenson (talk) C-Class (Low-Class) added.
• Deepak Chopra reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (High-Class)
• Out-of-place artifact (talk) Start-Class (High-Class) added.
• Aura (paranormal) reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (Mid-Class)
• Colloidal silver reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (Mid-Class)
• Detoxification reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (Mid-Class)
• Feng shui reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (Mid-Class)
• Iridology reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (Mid-Class)
• James Van Praagh reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (Mid-Class)
• Joe Nickell reassessed from Stub-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (Mid-Class)
• Magnet therapy reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (Mid-Class)
• Paul Kurtz reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (Mid-Class)
• Phil Plait reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (Mid-Class)
• Rebecca Watson reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (Mid-Class)
• Reproducibility reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (Mid-Class)
• Rod (cryptozoology) reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (Mid-Class)
• Scientific community reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (Mid-Class)
• Scientism reassessed from Stub-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (Mid-Class)
• Snake oil reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (Mid-Class)
• Snopes reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (Mid-Class)
• Teller (magician) reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (Mid-Class)
• Therapeutic touch reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (Mid-Class)
• Victor J. Stenger reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (Mid-Class)
• Ear candling reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (Low-Class)
• Exorcist reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (Low-Class)
• Jackalope reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (Low-Class)
• James Ossuary reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (Low-Class)
• Jamie Hyneman reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (Low-Class)
• Junior Skeptic reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (Low-Class)
• Pet psychic reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (Low-Class)
• Pigasus Award reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (Low-Class)
• Pious fraud reassessed from Stub-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (Low-Class)
• Skunk ape (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.
• The Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (Low-Class)
• The Genius of Charles Darwin reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (Low-Class)
• Johann Beringer (talk) Start-Class (No-Class) added.
• New England Skeptical Society reassessed from Stub-Class (No-Class) to Stub-Class (Mid-Class)
• Self-deception reassessed from Stub-Class (No-Class) to Stub-Class (Mid-Class)
• Bigfoot trap (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
• Cold spot reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to Stub-Class (Low-Class)
• Crackpot index reassessed from Stub-Class (No-Class) to Stub-Class (Low-Class)
• High-finned sperm whale (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
• Pacific Northwest tree octopus reassessed from Stub-Class (No-Class) to Stub-Class (Low-Class)
• Post hoc ergo propter hoc reassessed from Stub-Class (No-Class) to Stub-Class (Low-Class)
• TAM5 reassessed from Stub-Class (No-Class) to Stub-Class (Low-Class)
• List of skeptics and skeptical organizations reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to List-Class (High-Class)
• List of topics characterized as pseudoscience reassessed from B-Class (High-Class) to List-Class (High-Class)
• List of UFO sightings reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to List-Class (Mid-Class)
• List of alternative medicine subjects reassessed from List-Class (No-Class) to List-Class (Mid-Class)
• List of prizes for evidence of the paranormal reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to List-Class (Mid-Class)
• List of scientists opposing the mainstream scientific assessment of global warming reassessed from List-Class (No-Class) to List-Class (Mid-Class)
• UFO sightings in United States reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to List-Class (Mid-Class)
• List of megafauna discovered in modern times (talk) List-Class (Low-Class) added.
• Patterson-Gimlin film reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to Unassessed-Class (Mid-Class)
• Pat Robertson controversies reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to Unassessed-Class (Low-Class)
• Chessie (sea monster) (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Hans Alfred Nieper (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.

[edit] April 11, 2009

• Psychosocial Hypothesis (talk) Start-Class (No-Class) renamed to Psychosocial hypothesis
• The Zeitgeist Movement (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.
• Oklahoma City bombing conspiracy theories (talk) Start-Class (No-Class) added.
• Chinese ghosts (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.

[edit] April 8, 2009

• Ron Paul (talk) A-Class (Low-Class) added.
• Bates method reassessed from B-Class (Low-Class) to GA-Class (Low-Class)
• Dihydrogen monoxide hoax reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to C-Class (No-Class)
• Pro-aging trance (talk) Stub-Class (Mid-Class) added.
• Melanin theory (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.

[edit] April 2, 2009

• Creation-evolution controversy (talk) B-Class (No-Class) renamed to Creation–evolution controversy
• Jacobs Creature (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) removed.
• Source criticism (talk) Start-Class (Mid-Class) added.

[edit] March 30, 2009

• Australian ufology (talk) C-Class (No-Class) removed.
• José Arigó (talk) Start-Class (No-Class) renamed to Zé Arigó

[edit] March 26, 2009

• Noni (talk) B-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Ending Aging (talk) C-Class (No-Class) added.
• National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to C-Class (No-Class)
• Living dinosaur (cryptozoology) (talk) Start-Class (Mid-Class) added.
• George Vithoulkas (talk) Unassessed-Class (High-Class) added.

[edit] March 22, 2009

• Paleolithic diet reassessed from Unassessed-Class (Mid-Class) to B-Class (Mid-Class)
• Jacobs Creature reassessed from Start-Class (Low-Class) to Stub-Class (Low-Class)

[edit] March 18, 2009

• Risk management (talk) B-Class (No-Class) removed.
• 9/11 conspiracy theories (talk) B-Class (High-Class) added.
• Alternative medicine reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to B-Class (No-Class)
• Trevor Marshall (talk) B-Class (No-Class) added.
• United States gravity control propulsion research (1955 - 1974) (talk) C-Class (No-Class) added.
• Chemtrail conspiracy theory reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (Low-Class)
• Cryptid (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.
• Reasonable doubt reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to Stub-Class (No-Class)
• Paleolithic diet reassessed from FA-Class (Mid-Class) to Unassessed-Class (Mid-Class)
• CTA-102 (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Claim (logic) (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Pet psychic (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Sirians (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• White Lion Inn, Stratford-upon-Avon (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.

[edit] March 6, 2009

• Naturopathic medicine (talk) B-Class (Mid-Class) renamed to Naturopathy
• Abduction phenomenon (talk) C-Class (No-Class) renamed to Alien abduction
• Paleolithic diet (talk) FA-Class (Mid-Class) added.
• Pseudoscience reassessed from Start-Class (Top-Class) to B-Class (Top-Class)
• Bigfoot reassessed from B-Class (Low-Class) to B-Class (High-Class)
• Phoenix Lights reassessed from Start-Class (Mid-Class) to C-Class (Mid-Class)
• Reverse speech reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to C-Class (Low-Class)
• Jacobs Creature (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.
• Biological transmutation (talk) Start-Class (No-Class) added.
• Brigido Lara (talk) Start-Class (No-Class) added.
• Earth Changes (talk) Start-Class (No-Class) added.
• Intellectual dishonesty reassessed from Stub-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (No-Class)
• D. J. Grothe (talk) Stub-Class (Mid-Class) added.
• Paul Solomon (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Soviet space program conspiracy accusations (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Vladimir Ilyushin (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.

[edit] February 18, 2009

• Cydonia Mensae (talk) B-Class (No-Class) renamed to Cydonia (region of Mars)
• Bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (talk) Start-Class (Mid-Class) removed.
• Earth mysteries reassessed from Stub-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (No-Class)

[edit] February 14, 2009

(No changes today)

[edit] February 11, 2009

• Multiple chemical sensitivity/Archive 1 (talk) Start-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Jordan Maxwell (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Ethics reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to C-Class (Mid-Class)
• Frequency Specific Microcurrent (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
• Earth mysteries (talk) Stub-Class (No-Class) added.

[edit] January 31, 2009

• List of pseudosciences and pseudoscientific concepts (talk) B-Class (High-Class) renamed to List of topics characterized as pseudoscience
• Samuel Sagan (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) removed.
• Freedom From Religion Foundation reassessed from Stub-Class (No-Class) to B-Class (Mid-Class)
• Seth Material reassessed from C-Class (Low-Class) to B-Class (Low-Class)
• Unidentified flying object reassessed from B-Class (High-Class) to C-Class (High-Class)
• Ghost (talk) C-Class (No-Class) added.
• Witness accounts of the Roswell UFO incident (talk) Unassessed-Class (High-Class) added.
• 2012 (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Academic views on Falun Gong (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Age of Aquarius (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Ancient astronauts (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Angikuni Lake (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Aquatic ape hypothesis (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Archaeoastronomy and Vedic chronology (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Ashtar Galactic Command (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Aspartame controversy (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Audiophile (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Blacklight Power (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Cartomancy (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Champ (cryptozoology) (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Chinese herbology (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Cold spot (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Contactee (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Donna Eden (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Dore (dyslexia treatment) (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Elliot Abravanel (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Exorcist (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Extraterrestrial life (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Firewalking (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Galileo Gambit (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Game Brain (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Greys (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Growing Earth hypothesis (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Haunting Evidence (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Hybrid-origin (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Hymen (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Ian Lawton (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Implicate and Explicate Order according to David Bohm (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Ingo Swann (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• John Ernst Worrell Keely (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Jordan Maxwell (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Joseph McMoneagle (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• LGM-1 (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Lunar effect (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• MMR vaccine controversy (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Magnetospheric eternally collapsing object (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Michael Newton (hypnotist) (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Mt. Blanco Fossil Museum (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• New Zealand Climate Science Coalition (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Pat Robertson controversies (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Patterson-Gimlin film (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Philip J. Corso (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Polychlorinated biphenyl (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Reasonable doubt (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Rebecca Watson (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Reptilian humanoid (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Reverse speech (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Richard C. Hoagland (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Robert A. Baker (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Satanic ritual abuse (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Stochastic electrodynamics (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Suspension of judgment (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Tarot (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• The Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• The Disclosure Project (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• The Genius of Charles Darwin (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• The Monroe Institute (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Torsion field (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• UFO conspiracy theory (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Werecat (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• William A. Tiller (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Worlds in Collision (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Xenoestrogen (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.

[edit] January 23, 2009

• New World Order (conspiracy theory) (talk) C-Class (High-Class) added.
• Seth Material reassessed from B-Class (Low-Class) to C-Class (Low-Class)
• Robert C. Priddy reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (Mid-Class)
• Joseph P. Farrell (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.

[edit] January 14, 2009

• Japanese Paleolithic Hoax (talk) Start-Class (No-Class) renamed to Japanese paleolithic hoax
• Cydonia Mensae (talk) B-Class (No-Class) added.

[edit] January 9, 2009

• Thomas Sowell reassessed from Stub-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (No-Class)
• Debunker reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to Stub-Class (No-Class)