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 January 6, 2009 3.2 January 1, 2009 3.3 December 29, 2008 3.4 December 26, 2008 3.5 December 24, 2008 3.6 December 22, 2008 3.7 December 21, 2008 3.8 December 18, 2008 3.9 December 14, 2008 3.10 December 10, 2008 3.11 December 4, 2008 3.12 November 30, 2008 3.13 November 26, 2008 3.14 November 23, 2008 3.15 November 13, 2008 3.16 October 26, 2008 3.17 October 22, 2008 3.18 October 16, 2008 3.19 October 13, 2008 3.20 October 9, 2008 3.21 October 6, 2008 3.22 October 2, 2008 3.23 September 29, 2008 3.24 September 26, 2008 3.25 September 24, 2008 3.26 September 21, 2008 3.27 September 17, 2008 3.28 September 14, 2008 3.29 September 9, 2008 3.30 September 4, 2008 3.31 September 1, 2008 3.32 August 24, 2008

[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

???

Needed

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)
• Needed (for articles that do not yet exist but have been identified as subjects that should be covered; adds articles to Category:Needed-Class 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:Non-article Rational Skepticism pages)

Articles for which a valid class is not provided are listed in Category:Unassessed-Class 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  ]

Label	Criteria	Reader's experience	Editing suggestions	Example
FA {{FA-Class}}	The article has attained Featured article status. More detailed criteria The article must meet the featured article criteria: A featured article exemplifies our very best work and features professional standards of writing and presentation. 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) factually accurate: claims are verifiable against reliable sources, accurately represent the relevant body of published knowledge, and are supported with specific evidence and external 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[1] 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 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 June 2008)
FL {{FL-Class}}	The article has attained Featured list status. More detailed criteria The article must meet the featured list criteria: Prose. It features professional standards of writing. Lead. It has an engaging lead section that introduces the subject, and defines the scope and inclusion criteria of the list. Comprehensiveness. It comprehensively covers the defined scope, providing a complete set of items where practical, or otherwise at least all of the major items; where appropriate, it has annotations that provide useful and appropriate information about entries. Structure. It is easy to navigate, and includes—where helpful—section headings and table sort facilities. Style. It complies with the Manual of Style and its supplementary pages. Visual appeal. It makes suitable use of text layout, formatting, tables, and colour; it has images if they are appropriate to the subject, with succinct captions or "alt" text; and it has a minimal proportion of red links. 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.			FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives (as of January 2008)
A {{A-Class}}	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 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.	Durian (as of March 2007)
GA {{GA-Class}}	The article has attained Good article status. More detailed criteria The article must meet 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, and at minimum contains a section dedicated to the attribution of those sources in accordance with the guide to layout; (b) at minimum, 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.	International Space Station (as of February 2007)
B {{B-Class}}	The article is mostly complete and without major issues, but requires some further work to reach Good Article standards. B-Class articles should meet the six B-Class criteria. More detailed 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.	No reader should be 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 October 2007)
C {{C-Class}}	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 {{Start-Class}}	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 {{Stub-Class}}	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.	Coffee table book (as of July 2005)

[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.

• Bates method

[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] January 6, 2009

• CSETI (talk) B-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Coalition for Freedom of Information (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.

[edit] January 1, 2009

• Dr. Hay diet (talk) Stub-Class (No-Class) renamed to Hay diet
• Osteopath (talk) Start-Class (High-Class) added.
• Carson Sink UFO incident (talk) Start-Class (No-Class) added.

[edit] December 29, 2008

• Spiritism (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.
• Samuel Sagan (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.

[edit] December 26, 2008

(No changes today)

[edit] December 24, 2008

• Jane Roberts (talk) C-Class (Low-Class) added.
• Robert Bruce (author) (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.

[edit] December 22, 2008

(No changes today)

[edit] December 21, 2008

• Phytoestrogens reassessed from B-Class (No-Class) to B-Class (Mid-Class)
• Seth Material (talk) B-Class (Low-Class) added.
• Ayurveda (talk) B-Class (No-Class) added.
• Syun-Ichi Akasofu reassessed from Stub-Class (No-Class) to B-Class (No-Class)
• Abduction phenomenon reassessed from B-Class (No-Class) to C-Class (No-Class)
• Blossom Goodchild (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.

[edit] December 18, 2008

• Ayurveda (talk) B-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Getting It: The psychology of est (talk) FA-Class (Low-Class) added.
• Chiropractic reassessed from A-Class (High-Class) to B-Class (High-Class)
• Erhard Seminars Training (talk) Start-Class (No-Class) added.
• List of alternative medicine subjects (talk) List-Class (No-Class) added.
• List of crimes involving radioactive substances (talk) List-Class (No-Class) added.
• List of scientists opposing the mainstream scientific assessment of global warming (talk) List-Class (No-Class) added.

[edit] December 14, 2008

(No changes today)

[edit] December 10, 2008

• Seth Material (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) removed.
• Jane Roberts (talk) Start-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Johann Bessler (talk) Start-Class (High-Class) added.
• Law of Attraction (talk) Start-Class (No-Class) added.

[edit] December 4, 2008

(No changes today)

[edit] November 30, 2008

• Rebecca Watson (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Apollo Moon Landing hoax conspiracy theories (talk) B-Class (No-Class) added.
• Orthomolecular psychiatry (talk) C-Class (No-Class) added.

[edit] November 26, 2008

• Algae (talk) B-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Witness accounts of the Roswell UFO incident (talk) Unassessed-Class (High-Class) removed.
• Academic views on Falun Gong (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Age of Aquarius (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Ancient astronauts (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Apollo Moon Landing hoax conspiracy theories (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Archaeoastronomy and Vedic chronology (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Ashtar Galactic Command (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Aspartame controversy (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Audiophile (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Champ (cryptozoology) (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Contactee (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Cydonia Mensae (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Donna Eden (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Dore (dyslexia treatment) (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Elliot Abravanel (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Exorcist (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Extraterrestrial life (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Firewalking (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Galileo Gambit (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Game Brain (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Greys (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Growing Earth hypothesis (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Haunting Evidence (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Ian Lawton (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Implicate and Explicate Order according to David Bohm (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Ingo Swann (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• John Ernst Worrell Keely (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Joseph McMoneagle (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• LGM-1 (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Lake Anjikuni (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Law of Attraction (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Lunar effect (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• MMR vaccine controversy (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Magnetospheric eternally collapsing object (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Michael Newton (hypnotist) (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Mt. Blanco Fossil Museum (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• New World Order (conspiracy theory) (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• New Zealand Climate Science Coalition (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Pat Robertson controversies (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Philip J. Corso (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Reasonable doubt (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Reptilian humanoid (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Reverse speech (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Richard C. Hoagland (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Satanic ritual abuse (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Sokal Hoax (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Stochastic electrodynamics (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Suspension of judgment (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• The Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• The Disclosure Project (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• The Genius of Charles Darwin (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• The Monroe Institute (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Torsion field (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• UFO conspiracy theory (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Werecat (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• William A. Tiller (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Worlds in Collision (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Xenoestrogen (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Cold fusion reassessed from GA-Class (Mid-Class) to B-Class (Mid-Class)
• Dean Radin reassessed from Unassessed-Class (Mid-Class) to C-Class (Mid-Class)
• Scientology reassessed from Unassessed-Class (Mid-Class) to C-Class (Mid-Class)
• Lilith (hypothetical moon) reassessed from Unassessed-Class (Low-Class) to C-Class (Low-Class)
• Religulous reassessed from Unassessed-Class (Low-Class) to C-Class (Low-Class)
• Australian ufology reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to C-Class (No-Class)
• Autism's False Prophets (talk) C-Class (No-Class) added.
• British Israelism reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to C-Class (No-Class)
• Dianetics reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to C-Class (No-Class)
• Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to C-Class (No-Class)
• Past life regression reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to C-Class (No-Class)
• Phrenology reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to C-Class (No-Class)
• Susan B. Anthony reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to C-Class (No-Class)

[edit] November 23, 2008

• Hollow moon (talk) Stub-Class (No-Class) renamed to Hollow Moon
• Integratron reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (Low-Class)
• Linda Moulton Howe reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (No-Class)
• Omega point (talk) Start-Class (No-Class) added.
• Polywater (talk) Start-Class (No-Class) added.
• Lee Carroll (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
• Courtney Brown (researcher) reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to Stub-Class (No-Class)
• Lilith (hypothetical moon) reassessed from Start-Class (Low-Class) to Unassessed-Class (Low-Class)
• Australian ufology (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Magnetospheric eternally collapsing object (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.

[edit] November 13, 2008

• Ancient astronaut theories (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) renamed to Ancient astronauts
• Jerry Andrus reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (Low-Class)
• Seth Material (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.
• Criss Angel reassessed from B-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (No-Class)
• Seattle Windshield Pitting Epidemic (talk) Start-Class (No-Class) added.
• Andy Tomlinson (talk) Stub-Class (No-Class) added.
• Ashtar Galactic Command (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Ian Lawton (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Michael Newton (hypnotist) (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Past life regression (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Rebecca Watson (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• The Monroe Institute (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.

[edit] October 26, 2008

• Expanding Earth theory (talk) Start-Class (No-Class) renamed to Expanding Earth
• L. Ron Hubbard reassessed from GA-Class (No-Class) to B-Class (No-Class)
• Marfa lights (talk) B-Class (No-Class) added.
• Jerry Andrus (talk) Start-Class (No-Class) added.
• Donna Eden (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Phrenology reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to Unassessed-Class (No-Class)
• William A. Tiller (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.

[edit] October 22, 2008

• Derren Brown (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Skvader (talk) Start-Class (No-Class) added.
• Susan Blackmore reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (No-Class)
• Audiophile (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.

[edit] October 16, 2008

• Followers of Christ (Oregon church) (talk) Start-Class (No-Class) renamed to Followers of Christ

[edit] October 13, 2008

• Insulow (talk) Stub-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Firewalking (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.

[edit] October 9, 2008

• Jane Roberts reassessed from B-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (No-Class)

[edit] October 6, 2008

• Area 51: The Alien Interview (talk) Start-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Anomaly (Forteana) (talk) Stub-Class (No-Class) renamed to Fortean anomaly

[edit] October 2, 2008

• Religulous (talk) Unassessed-Class (Low-Class) added.

[edit] September 29, 2008

(No changes today)

[edit] September 26, 2008

• Evidence regarding Bigfoot reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (Low-Class)
• Formal studies of Bigfoot (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.
• New Zealand Climate Science Coalition (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.

[edit] September 24, 2008

• Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions reassessed from Stub-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (No-Class)

[edit] September 21, 2008

• Void power (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) removed.

[edit] September 17, 2008

• Astrotheology (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.

[edit] September 14, 2008

• Pharmaceutical company (talk) B-Class (No-Class) renamed to Pharmaceutical industry
• Derren Brown (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• Exorcist (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
• The Genius of Charles Darwin (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.

[edit] September 9, 2008

• De Grey Technology Review controversy (talk) B-Class (No-Class) renamed to De Grey Technology Review debate
• Void power (talk) Stub-Class (Low-Class) added.
• Violet wand reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to Stub-Class (No-Class)
• Astrotheology (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.

[edit] September 4, 2008

• Shag Harbour incident (talk) B-Class (No-Class) renamed to Shag Harbour UFO incident
• Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor reassessed from B-Class (No-Class) to Unassessed-Class (No-Class)

[edit] September 1, 2008

• Skeptic's Dictionary (talk) Start-Class (Mid-Class) renamed to The Skeptic's Dictionary
• David Michael Jacobs (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.
• Mt. Blanco Fossil Museum (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.

[edit] August 24, 2008

• Chemtrail conspiracy theory (talk) Start-Class (No-Class) added.