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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 WikiProject Physics is basically anything on Wikipedia that is related to physics. As of June 2008, about 9,000 articles have been identified as being physics-related.

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

• Bringing every physics article as close to Featured Article or Featured List status as possible.
• Maximizing MoS compliance.
• Cleaning up tagged articles.
• Organization of categories in at every level of Category:Physics.
• Making sure all articles are properly referenced.
• Watching out for pseudoscience in physics articles and categories (see the list of these topics).
• Keeping the Physics Portal in good shape.
• Keeping the WikiProject Physics community active, growing, and well-supported.
• Discussing the content of physics articles on Wikipedia and what direction WikiProject Physics should take (see talk page).

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Quick Help

If you can help with any of these topics, please add your name to the third column

WikiProject Physics Quick Help Table

I need help with	Try	Or alternatively, try contacting
Bots	Bot policy and subpages
Copy-editing	League of Copyeditors	Headbomb
Content dispute	Requesting for comments WikiProject Physics talk page	WikiProject Physics participants
Editing a protected page	Placing {{editprotected}} on the article's talk page	SCZenz, Mike Peel
General Assistance	Editor Assistance
General Feedback	WikiProject Physics talk page Requesting for comments	WikiProject Physics participants
Getting around WikiProject Physics	WikiProject Physics talk page	Headbomb
Images (creating)	Graphic Lab
Images (uploading)	Wikimedia Commons	Mike Peel
Improving an article	Using the Reviewing Cheatsheet WikiProject Physics talk page	WikiProject Physics participants
Vandalism	Administrator intervention against vandalism	SCZenz, Mike Peel
Templates	Template messages and subpages	Mike Peel, Headbomb

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Current status of physics articles

Main article: Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics/Current status of physics articles

See also: Template:Physics and Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics/Cleanup listing

This table is automatically updated by Oleg Alexandrov's WP 1.0 bot. See Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Physics articles by quality log for the latest changes.

Physics articles Importance Top High Mid Low None Total Quality FA 10 10 6 2 28 FL 1 2 3 6 A 2 7 5 3 17 GA 14 6 3 7 30 B 134 216 274 159 783 C 30 122 150 90 392 Start 51 518 1013 924 1 2507 Stub 2 68 408 670 2763 3911 List 9 16 28 36 89 Assessed 253 965 1890 1891 2764 7763 Unassessed 1063 1063 Total 253 965 1890 1891 3827 8826

Assessment categories Assessment categories Importance? Class? Top High Mid Low NA ??? Rated Total FA 10 10 6 2 0 0 28 28 FL 1 2 3 0 0 0 6 6 A 2 7 5 3 0 0 17 17 GA 14 6 3 7 0 0 30 30 B 134 220 273 159 0 0 786 786 C 30 122 150 90 0 0 392 392 Start 51 519 1,015 927 0 0 2,512 2,512 Stub 2 68 408 672 0 2,767 1,151 3,918 List 9 16 28 36 0 0 89 89 Template 0 0 0 0 90 0 90 90 Category 0 0 0 0 454 0 454 454 Disambig 0 0 0 0 31 0 31 31 Image 0 0 0 0 5 0 5 5 NA 0 0 0 0 5 0 6 6 Redirect 0 0 0 0 264 0 264 264 Portal 0 0 0 0 3 0 3 3 Project 0 0 0 0 3 0 3 3 Unassessed 0 0 0 0 0 1,066 -1 1,065 Assessed 254 972 1,893 1,898 853 2,773 5,879 8,646 Total 254 972 1,893 1,898 853 3,839 5,877 9,710

Progress

Assessment	Assessed/Total	Percentage	Updated
Quality	7,657/8,618	88.85%	Headbomb {ta?????t??ß? – WP Physics} 00:50, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
Importance	4,915/8,618	57.03%	Headbomb {ta?????t??ß? – WP Physics} 00:50, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

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Pages needing attention

Pages needing attention

• Modern physics
• Classical physics
• Other physics topics
• Isometries in physics
• Lubricity

Stubs

• Physics stubs
• Physicist stubs
• Atomic, molecular, and optical physics stubs
• Classical mechanics stubs
• Condensed matter stubs
• Nuclear and atomic physics stubs
• Optics stubs
• Particle physics stubs
• Quantum physics stubs
• Relativity stubs
• Thermodynamics stubs

Others

• Requested articles
• Requested images

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Selected subpages

Main article: Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics/Subpages

• List of participants
• 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.
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics/Cleanup listing for articles tagged with various cleanup tags

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Current activity

Article Alerts

Articles for deletion

• 3 Dec 2008 – Einstein's accomplishments (talk) has been deleted (see discussion).
• 1 Dec 2008 – Scientific Equipment Optician (talk) nominated for deletion by Headbomb (see discussion).
• 30 Nov 2008 – De Sitter invariant theories (talk) has been deleted (see discussion).
• 29 Nov 2008 – Terence Rudolph (talk) nominated for deletion by Headbomb (see discussion).
• 28 Nov 2008 – De Sitter relativity (talk) has been redirected to De Sitter invariant theories (see discussion).
• 22 Nov 2008 – Scale relativity (talk) was kept (see discussion).

Good article nominations

• 4 Dec 2008 – Optical properties of carbon nanotubes (talk) is not promoted; see discussion.
• 14 Nov 2008 – Electron (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by RJHall; see discussion.

Good article reassessment

• 24 Nov 2008 – Cold fusion (talk) has been demoted; see discussion.

Featured article candidates

• 3 Dec 2008 – Gerard K. O'Neill (talk) is nominated by Wronkiew; see discussion.
• 19 Nov 2008 – Acid dissociation constant (talk) is nominated by Petergans; see discussion.

Featured article reviews

• 2 Dec 2008 – Speed of light (talk) is nominated by Unpopular Opinion; see discussion.
• 10 Nov 2008 – Photon (talk) is nominated by RJHall; see discussion.

Peer review

• 26 Nov 2008 – Peer review opened for List of mesons (talk) by Headbomb.
• 22 Nov 2008 – Peer review for Gerard K. O'Neill (talk) closed.
• 22 Nov 2008 – Peer review for Quark (talk) closed.
• 17 Nov 2008 – Peer review opened for Lepton (talk) by Headbomb.

Requests for comments

• 19 Nov 2008 – RFC (maths, science, and technology) opened for List of pseudosciences and pseudoscientific concepts (talk).
• 31 Oct 2008 – RFC (biographies) opened for Heinrich Hertz (talk).

Did you know

• 27 Nov 2008 – A fact from Advanced Thin Ionization Calorimeter (talk) appeared on the main page.

Miscellaneous

• 2 Jul 2008 – There is currently a poll about WikiProject Physics in general. Please take some time to answer it (or part of it), as it will help coordinate and guide the future efforts of the Project.

• 8 Jun 2008 – The MOSNUM—Units of measurement had a major rewrite. Head there to catch up on the latest guidelines on how to write units and how to disambiguate.

Articles needing attention

See also: Category:Physics articles needing expert attention

Other things you can do

• Update Portal:Physics.
• Update Portal:Gravitation.
• Tag physics-related articles with {{physics}}.
• Check that ratings of physics articles are appropriate, and suggest possible improvements to articles.
• Find images for Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of physics subjects
• Update and improve this list!

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Related projects

See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/Science

Portals

• Portal:Physics
• Portal:Electromagnetism
• Portal:Gravitation

Other physics Wikiprojects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Acoustics
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Elements
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Fluid dynamics (currently inactive)
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Pseudoscience
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Relativity

Related WikiProjects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Science
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Chemistry
• Wikipedia:Missing science topics

• Part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles. Has a list of missing physics articles.

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Space
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Astronomy
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Astronomical objects
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Constellations
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Mars
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Telescopes
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Moon

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Spaceflight
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Launch vehicles
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Space missions
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Unmanned space missions
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Timeline of spaceflight
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Space Colonization

Peer Review

• Wikipedia:Peer review
• Wikipedia:Scientific peer review (No longer active)
  • Wikipedia:Scientific peer review/archived reviews