Wikipedia:Requests for summaries

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Requests for summaries are requests for integrating a summary of certain high quality information into Wikipedia. You can make such a request when you come across an interesting report or study, but either do not fully understand it or do not have the time to write a complete summary. Types of documents that should be listed here are:

• reports of all types
• comprehensive article series
• books which are available online in full text
• shared resources available to other Wikipedians

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• Introduction to Proto-Indo-European Stress

• Pertaining to mathematics of origami:
  • Erik D. Demaine, Martin L. Demaine, Joseph S. B. Mitchell, Folding Flat Silhouettes and Wrapping Polyhedral Packages: New Results in Computational Origami, 1999
  • Marshall Bern and Barry Hayes, The Complexity of Flat Origami, 1996
  • Thomas Hull, On the Mathematics of Flat Origamis, 1994

• Embezzlement statistics, Nikolai Tovologuine, Quick summary

• To incorporate into Cyberchase: this brief review [1]

• This page is very easy; it's a single Web page about one page long entitled NationStates Political Map Project; this should be incorporated into the NationStates article. Thank you!

• Bottled Water: Pure Drink or Pure Hype?, pertaining to bottled water, drinking water, and water

• A Summary of the Archival Institution named Screensound Australia. This is the About Us page on their website

• Heikki Laitinen, The Many Faces of the Yoik. Finnish Music Quarterly, April 1994.

• E. Buckley, et al., A First Encyclopaedia of Tlön. Memphis, Tennessee. 1824 - 1914.

• An explanation of the following quote, relevant to Stephen Hawking and event horizon:

The Euclidean path integral over all topologically trivial metrics can be done by time slicing and so is unitary when analytically continued to the Lorentzian. On the other hand, the path integral over all topologically non-trivial metrics is asymptotically independent of the initial state. Thus the total path integral is unitary and information is not lost in the formation and evaporation of black holes. The way the information gets out seems to be that a true event horizon never forms, just an apparent horizon.

• An incorporation and clarification of material in Visual Distortions Near a Black Hole and Neutron Star by R.J. Nemiroff, American Journal of Physics, Vol. 61, pp. 619-631, 1993.

• A breakdown of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, available here.

• The final report of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board, available here, relevant to Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.

• The August 2003 Waxman report (by Congressman Henry Waxman and others) on Politics and Science in the Bush administration deserves to be summarized. It may need to get its own page, but parts of it are relevant to sexual abstinence, AIDS etc.

• John Taylor Gatto's The Underground History of Education contains some interesting insights that are relevant to school, education etc. A summary of the book can be found at The Memory Hole, and one chapter per month is posted on Gatto's website (currently chapters 1-9).

Posted a brief intro. Am re-reading the book (a good read) for further anecdotes.--azwaldo 23:36, 4 Jan 2004 (UTC)

• This one's a heavyweight: Congressional Reports: Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities before and after the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001 (858 pages). May need to be split up among several participants. Obviously relevant to September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack.

• Tranquility Bay report by the International Survivors Action Committee. Should be summarized in the article about WWASPS.

• Political Conservativism as Motivated Social Cognition is a controversial paper. The full text of the study can be found here. The adjunct, in which the authors address some objections to the study, can be found here. This would probably best be integrated into political conservative.

• Homefront Confidential: How the War on Terrorism Affects Access to Information and the Public's Right to Know by The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press is probably relevant to a variety of articles, such as September 11, 2001 terrorist attack, Freedom of Information Act etc.
• Crude Vision describes oil interests in the United States until the late 1980s. Information contained therein is relevant to 2003 invasion of Iraq, History of Iraq, Gulf War, Bechtel Corporation (which already contains a lot of relevant info) etc.

• Dark Alliance is a multi part article series published in the San Jose Mercury News about the alleged involvement of the CIA in the crack cocaine explosion of the 1980s. Relevant to conspiracy theory but probably deserves its own page.

• A Weird Wee Beastie: Trichoplax adhaerens. Add to Trichoplax adhaerens.

• an article on the resolution of the Katie.com fiasco and the influence bloggers and slashdotters had on the outcome. Illustrate the power of mass mobilization of online communities and whether it has any relavence in the real world.

• Dora ("Heavy Gustav"), the world's largest railway gun -ZeroOne 00:58, 25 Aug 2004 (UTC)