Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics

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WikiProject Physics

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This WikiProject exists to improve the quality of existing articles related to Physics, to create articles to cover a broader range of physics topics, and to categorize and link them in appropriate ways. The result of this work should be articles that are accessible to the lay reader and yet are also useful to the professional working in the field. Some articles will be of interest to grade-school students, others only to advanced graduate students and post-docs: all such communities should be served.

If you plan to be active in editing articles relating to physics, please add your name and your interests to the participants list. Concrete proposals, suggestions and activities are discussed on the Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Physics page, and any and all interested parties are encouraged to join up and participate.

Please be aware that the caliber of the current participants is quite high: many, if not most of the active participants of this project are either graduate students in physics, or are practicing professionals and academics. This is stated not to discourage membership, but to encourage it: we need a few more amateurs to tell us when the articles have become too obtuse and difficult to understand, and a few more professionals to oversee the accuracy of the content in assorted subfields. Either way, when you talk here, you'll be talking with peers.

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Scope

The scope of this project is basically everything on Wikipedia that is concerned with physics. Please be aware that, as of November 2005, there are over 11,000 articles on mathematics and physics (See Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics/Current activity), and so this scope is very broad.

Of particular interest are issues dealing with core physics concepts and issues. In particular:

Organization of categories in the top level Category:Physics
General physics discussions, e.g. concerning the content of physics articles on Wikipedia (use the talk page).
Making sure all articles are properly referenced.
Watching out for pseudoscience in physics articles and categories (see the list of these topics).
Helping to keep the Physics Portal in good shape.

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Subpages

Participants list
List of templates
Alternative, speculative and disputed theories - volunteers needed to watch fringe science.
Worklist of central experiments - Help to create GA class articles on all foundational experiments in Physics.
Scientific citation guidelines for WikiProject Physics to write readable and well referenced articles.

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Article ratings

There is a list of articles sorted by quality and importance at Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Physics articles by quality, which is automatically created by Oleg Alexandrov's Mathbot. See Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Physics articles by quality log for the latest changes

To add an article to the list, simply add the WikiProject template to the talk page of the article with the following parameters:

where class is chosen from this assessment scale, and importance is the importance within physics according to this scale.

Physics articles		Importance
Physics articles		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA	8	8	5	2	4	27
	A	7	11	3	3		24
	GA	6	16	4	3	2	31
	B	47	109	68	30	73	327
	Start	12	78	84	81	284	539
	Stub	4	17	38	78	3069	3206
	Assessed	84	239	202	197	3432	4154
	Unassessed	4	10	7	9	4603	4633
	Total	88	249	209	206	8035	8787

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Pages needing attention

Stubs

Others

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Scientific peer review

Scientific Peer Review - Recent requests for review

This is a list of articles that have been nominated for scientific peer review. i.e. by scientists with expertise in the topic. Please contribute by adding new requests at the top of this list:

then add {{scipeerreview}} to the top of the talk page of the article you want reviewing and add a good description of what you want out of the review on the discussion page.

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Chemistry/Peer review for some related reviews.

Reviews of articles that have been nominated for review and the review completed are archived here.

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Current activity

Good articles

Currently nothing (known) needing attention.

Articles needing attention

Experimental physics needs content to become an encyclopedic article.
Frame-dragging needs mathematical detail, and incorporation of references as in-text cites
D-Wave Systems needs review for its statements about quantum computation
Boltzmann brain needs review for accuracy of its description

Miscellaneous

The category Category:Quantum Gravity physicists has been proposed for deletion.
The articles Battery (electricity), Benjamin Franklin, Earth, Liquid, Lunar eclipse and Occam's razor are nominees for The Article Creation and Improvement Drive

Other things that need doing

Help with the Physics rewrite
Update Portal:Physics
Update Portal:Gravitation
Tag physics articles with {{physics}}
Check that ratings of physics articles are appropriate, and suggest possible improvements to articles
Update and improve this list!