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![]() | This template was considered for deletion on 2008 February 3. The result of the discussion was "no consensus". |
![]() | This template was considered for deletion on 2011 February 26. The result of the discussion was "no consensus". |
This infobox template is intended for use with Wikipedia:WikiProject Pseudoscience. Please check Wikipedia Talk:WikiProject Pseudoscience before making changes. -- Christopher Thomas 07:03, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
I've rolled back some of the changes that were recently made to the template. I appreciate the effort made; it just turns out that there are a few quirks of how tables seem to work in Wikipedia that required them. Specifically:
The efforts to improve the template were definitely appreciated, however! -- Christopher Thomas 20:33, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
Update: I've balanced newlines in the rows that have them, so things look good either way and format is a non-issue. I'm embarrassed that it took me several days to think of this. -- Christopher Thomas 05:17, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
These are test instances of the infobox designed to assess rendering under varying conditions. Any revised version of the infobox should be checked to make sure it still looks good for all test cases. New cases may be added as new pathological situations are identified. Please don't add comments to this section (instead, put it in a new thread heading above). -- Christopher Thomas 20:42, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
Claims | The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
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Related scientific disciplines | Foo |
Year proposed | Bar |
Original proponents | Baz |
Subsequent proponents | Qux |
(Overview of pseudoscientific concepts) |
Claims |
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Related scientific disciplines |
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Year proposed | Baz (not a list) |
Original proponents |
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Subsequent proponents |
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(Overview of pseudoscientific concepts) |
Claims | The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. So does the slow brown fox. |
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Related scientific disciplines | Foo, Bar Baz, Long topic name here, Qux Poit, Narf Wibble |
Year proposed | Foo |
Original proponents | Bar Baz, Extremely long name here, Qux Poit, and Narf Wibble |
Subsequent proponents | Bar Baz, Extremely long name here, Qux Poit, and Narf Wibble |
(Overview of pseudoscientific concepts) |
This template seems to repeatedly cause controversy. I figure that the best means to deal with that would be to place it up for deletion, using the common objections: Template:Infobox Pseudoscience has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. - LinaMishima ( talk) 21:36, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
How can the infobox be improved, so as to counter the objections of its critics? Most significantly, some means to address the NPOV might be a good idea. How about adding a required "Current research" or similarly named section? Or "Claims to science title" (which is what needs to be countered for something to be a pseudoscience)? LinaMishima ( talk) 23:03, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
Since this series box applies the label "pseudoscience" without qualification, we should be careful to use it strictly according to WP:PSCI criteria for category:pseudoscience, i.e., only
Per WP:RS#Claims_of_consensus, attributing sci consensus requires a particular type of source, in this case a statement from a mainstream scientific body such as an Academy of Sciences. We can't rely on statements from an individual scientists or signatories to a petition, since these are self-selected and don't establish what the consensus view is. There is nothing preventing using statements from individual RS's in articles, but they aren't sufficient for categorizing or using series boxes. -- Jim Butler ( t) 07:26, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
...is sort of redundant isn't it? On all the transclusions I looked at, editors the name of the article in the "name" field. Presumably a reader will already know what article they're reading... it's in big bold letters at the top of the article : ) I'm going to remove the field unless there's any objections. -- Nealparr ( talk to me) 15:49, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
I added a documentation page at Template:Infobox_Pseudoscience/doc. It's automatically added by the "Documentation" template that I added [1]. Notice the "noinclude" tags to prevent the documentation page from being added to all the pages that use the template -- Enric Naval ( talk) 08:49, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
I added an image field to the top of the infobox. It doesn't show up if no image is specified, so the appearance of the infobox won't have changed on the pages it's transcluded in. To see an example of it in use see Brain Gym. -- HughCharlesParker ( talk - contribs) 16:18, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
Please see [4] Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 20:06, 29 June 2011 (UTC)