Search Results: Wikipedia:SCIRS
Redirect to:
This page is a redirect. The following categories are used to track and monitor this redirect:
|
Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (science)
Rabu, 2026-05-20 02:07:20contributors. This page is not an encyclopedia article or a Wikipedia policy, as it has not been reviewed by the community. Shortcut WP:SCIRSWP:SCIRS...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Transcendental Meditation research
Selasa, 2025-11-25 05:47:19article is just serving as a POV fork, attempting to ignore WP:MEDRS and WP:SCIRS by listing every study done on the topic (most of which were done by proponents...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:WikiProject Soil
Jumat, 2026-04-17 02:02:50MidnightMayhem (t · c) on 02 Jun 2026 Verify content. Use reliable sources per WP:SCIRS. Read this Signpost editorial. Improve soils-related content at Wikipedia...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Oleogustus
Jumat, 2025-11-14 19:29:09article cites the original research report, as WP:SCIRS allows in a situation like this. WP:SCIRS does not disallow news coverage, although it has advice...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cupiosexual
Jumat, 2026-01-30 20:02:37scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL) Per WP:GNG, WP:NEO, WP:SCIRS/WP:MEDRS, and previous discussions such as apothisexuality, noetisexuality...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 273
Selasa, 2023-02-21 13:18:38will note that this passage in SCIRS came about after an RFC on this board. My questions is thus: How binding is SCIRS? If it is not binding, how would...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 192
Senin, 2026-02-23 02:47:06time to bump SCIRS to guideline status too? – Joe (talk) 11:22, 11 April 2024 (UTC) I've left notifications about this proposal at the SCIRS talk page,...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2015-07-22/Wikimanía report
Rabu, 2024-04-24 06:46:05Wikipedia:WikiProject_Inline_Templates, the closest existing ones I can see are {{SCIRS}} ⇒[unreliable scientific source?], and possibly {{POV-statement}} and the...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Activated phenolics
Sabtu, 2025-11-22 03:59:12ThePlatypusofDoom (talk) 16:06, 9 April 2016 (UTC) Delete: There is no evidence in WP:SCIRS literature that ingested polyphenols ("phenolics") a) have definable roles...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Tiers of reliability
Rabu, 2025-01-15 04:55:12reliable sources (law) (WP:RSLAW) Identifying reliable sources (science) (WP:SCIRS) Identifying reliable sources (medicine) (WP:MEDRS) Identifying and using...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Strengths test
Senin, 2025-12-22 10:08:02for guidance to add relative and reputable sources. ScirIvan (talk) 06:58, 22 July 2024 (UTC) @ScirIvan, the sources are things like "18 Free and Paid...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:WikiProject Weather/Project resources
Jumat, 2021-08-06 03:50:09WikiProject's tropical meteorology articles may also be found at WP:SCICITE and WP:SCIRS. Reports, bulletins, and other products issued by Regional Specialized Meteorological...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sorbyshire
Senin, 2025-12-01 12:45:45800-1100, D.M. Hadley, Bloomsbury, 2001. Sowerby was not a shire; it was a scir, understood as a poorly understood unit of territorial organization under...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Peer review/Animal/archive1
Minggu, 2023-04-02 23:38:51high-quality reliable sources. For science, this means sources that comply with WP:SCIRS. A phylum is not always defines like you described either (could be genetic)...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:When can you cite a preprint invoking expert SPS?
Rabu, 2025-10-08 07:04:58but the translated paper can be cite alongside, for convenience to non-French speakers. WP:USESPS WP:RS WP:SPS WP:RSE WP:MEDRS WP:SCIRS WP:EXCEPTIONAL...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Project resources
Minggu, 2026-02-22 22:25:51WikiProject's tropical meteorology articles may also be found at WP:SCICITE and WP:SCIRS. Reports, bulletins, and other products issued by Regional Specialized Meteorological...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Botanical additives
Sabtu, 2025-11-22 10:51:04recent years and most of the sources are out of date and not solid per WP:SCIRS. There is a 3-year old proposal for merger with Phytochemical but such a...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 365
Senin, 2022-02-07 11:07:38linkage to WP:SCIRS across the Wiki itself. Consequently, whenever someone references WP:SCIRS, a user will sometimes retort that that WP:SCIRS is 'just an...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Effects of pornography
Sabtu, 2025-12-13 23:27:55The student popped up a few days ago, my criticism of According to WP:SCIRS, Cite reviews, don't write them is older. To put the finger where it hurts...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/Behavioural genetics/1
Senin, 2019-04-29 17:28:09applied to sourcing for any medical claims contained within. (Ditto WP:SCIRS). So to me this becomes a question of 1) how can the article can be expanded...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Banburyshire
Senin, 2025-11-17 00:23:12Peasantry and the Growth of Lordship, where it is characterised as a 'small scir'. Andrew (talk) 12:01, 8 February 2014 (UTC) Please avoid personal accusations...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Apothisexuality
Jumat, 2025-08-08 06:27:25WP:BEFORE search, "apothisexuality" has not been discussed by any WP:MEDRS/WP:SCIRS—which would be necessary in order to even define the concept since it is...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/PSR B1257+12 D
Jumat, 2025-11-28 03:21:51I consider that quite acceptable given this circumstance. Moreover, WP:SCIRS#Popular_press states that "one possibility is to cite a higher-quality source...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/HD 38801 b
Selasa, 2025-12-09 09:13:42zero eccentricity), so it's not new. It's also pretty weak in terms of WP:SCIRS too. A single primary research article carries different weight depending...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Centralized discussion/Archive/Archive 17
Minggu, 2025-06-22 13:26:50Charter draft review period Added 4 April 2024, archived 4 May 2024 Promoting SCIRS to a guideline Added 30 April 2024, archived 7 May 2024 Voting for U4C candidates...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Biology and political orientation (2nd Nomination)
Sabtu, 2025-11-29 02:36:47I was looking for it and couldn't find it, the relevant guidance is WP:SCIRS. My argument during this AfD has only ever been that there should be an...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 288
Sabtu, 2023-07-22 14:44:13that's original research. I have tried to inform this Kleuske guy that WP:SCIRS makes clear that genetic studies about phenotypes (intelligence, hair color)...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Drum RNA motif
Sabtu, 2025-12-13 23:17:49and ideas taken from primary sources as we define a secondary source. WP:SCIRS is pretty clear that a secondary source is a review or book, which as far...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/3RRArchive444
Minggu, 2021-12-26 09:58:08of view during an ongoing talk page discussion with no consensus or WP:SCIRS sources established to support the user's opinion. Zefr (talk) 19:53, 26...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive905
Senin, 2026-05-04 20:11:58Wikipedia community that WP:MEDRS applies to biomedical matters and WP:SCIRS applies to scientific matters. --Guy Macon (talk) 06:27, 19 November 2015...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Fringe theories/Noticeboard
Jumat, 2026-06-05 20:38:42current version. First, note what isn't in the new version. Not a single WP:SCIRS source that says that earthquakes cause lights in the sky. Plenty of sources...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 249
Jumat, 2023-03-03 12:44:07research is so complicated and so often bitterly controversial [36] that WP:SCIRS and its instructions for finding scientific consensus in authoritative secondary...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2013 November 7
Jumat, 2023-03-03 21:20:47article is just serving as a POV fork, attempting to ignore WP:MEDRS and WP:SCIRS by listing every study done on the topic (most of which were done by proponents...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2010 December 15
Selasa, 2022-03-29 01:46:59material found in a primary source." See the same section as well as Wikipedia:SCIRS#Respect_secondary_sources for other commentary about when it is appropriate...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Antisemitism in Poland/Proposed decision
Senin, 2019-09-23 01:29:19community to develop sourcing guidelines along the lines of WP:MEDRS or WP:SCIRS for controversial historical topics. – Joe (talk) 11:45, 16 September 2019...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1090
Kamis, 2026-03-05 14:29:13conflict with his personal agenda (or POV), often citing essays such as WP:SCIRS and WP:MEDRS. However he was including similar primary and secondary genetic...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Participants
Jumat, 2026-05-29 03:54:03claims, nutrition PhD, physiology, neuroscience (retired) WP:MEDRS, WP:SCIRS, WP:MEDMOS علاء • Talk • Contribs Medical student WP:Anatomy, WP:MED, Neurology...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive664
Rabu, 2026-03-25 03:56:38topic area. SlimVirgin, I know we disagree about some small matters at WP:SCIRS, but for the most part I edit science articles in preference to adminning...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1069
Minggu, 2022-04-03 23:59:46editorial approach to reliable sourcing was appropriate - cf WP:SCIRS, including WP:SCIRS#Choosing sources). Please note that this is not an appropriate...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive213
Rabu, 2026-02-18 13:37:05or uncivil disagreement over the proper application of WP:WEIGHT and WP:SCIRS, though sockpuppetry and single-purpose accounts out of touch with wider...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1028
Kamis, 2025-10-09 04:03:26accordance to Wikipedia policy/guidelines. When reminded of this, he cites (WP:SCIRS) to justify his recurring behavior of making contentious/bold edits before...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive865
Rabu, 2026-02-25 14:05:24challenging by the persistent insertions of material that does not meet WP:SCIRS or WP:MEDRS. Novice users, who members of WT:MED group say are known students...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive855
Rabu, 2026-02-25 01:11:09removed the source at a later date, I was doing so under under WP:RS and WP:SCIRS after reflecting on the general topic for some time, and EllenCT brought...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive328
Rabu, 2026-02-11 07:25:03practice to enforce a guideline with existing consensus (e.g. WP:MEDRS or WP:SCIRS) more strictly, not invent one out of whole cloth. I think this restriction...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive923
Jumat, 2025-01-24 22:08:10journal, and he removed it too. His reason for removing it? "Please review WP:SCIRS for sourcing and WP:REFB for how to format your references." This is not...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive898
Sabtu, 2026-03-28 20:53:00to policies and guidelines, especially ones like WP:RS (WP:MEDRS and WP:SCIRS in my area) and WP:WEIGHT primarily and frequently cite them. Calling someone...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive949
Selasa, 2026-01-06 03:31:29community on this issue, and he is not following official wp policy from WP:SCIRS which specifically states "Respect primary sources A primary source... may...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement/Archive287
Selasa, 2021-05-25 11:08:13interpretation by individual editors) is very questionable. I am all for MEDRS, the SCIRS essay, and the preference for scholarly sources as specified at SOURCETYPES...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement/Archive189
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 01:56:52references; many of the references meet more stringent criteria including WP:SCIRS and the articles usually provide reasonably weighted coverage of minority...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:WikiProject Equine/Horse breed RS guide
Senin, 2026-03-02 23:14:00controversial or preliminary conclusions that go beyond the evidence. Look at WP:SCIRS and see if breed articles need more nuance (breeds are NOT a species… and...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Jytdog/Evidence
Senin, 2020-04-13 06:35:12the reversions were due to Jytdog misapplying WP:MEDRS standards to WP:SCIRS content. I can't find the diff, but DP saw the community's failure to subdue...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 385
Rabu, 2025-09-24 20:47:35use news media sources for any sort of scientific facts anyway (see WP:SCIRS and WP:MEDRS). And for breaking science news, there are plenty of far more...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 177
Sabtu, 2025-09-27 22:33:20taking a natural sciences approach, or the veterinary medicine approach, WP:SCIRS or WP:MEDRS outline how reliable scientific sources are different from the...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 134
Selasa, 2025-09-23 22:09:34happy. The well-known editor cited WP:SCIRS as evidence that I shouldn't include the discussion. Yet, WP:SCIRS specifically states "Respect primary sources...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 62
Selasa, 2023-03-21 17:31:33or uncivil disagreement over the proper application of WP:WEIGHT and WP:SCIRS, though sockpuppetry and single-purpose accounts out of touch with wider...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/American politics/Workshop
Minggu, 2023-01-29 03:40:41(UTC) Comment by Arbitrators: Comment by parties: Comment by others: WP:SCIRS was never intended to apply to economics. It applies to the natural sciences...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Genetically modified organisms/Evidence
Rabu, 2022-04-13 03:09:54also think it is important to hold to clear standards on sourcing, NPOV, SCIRS and so on, the tone I'm seeing has gotten very personal and gone well past...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 157
Senin, 2025-12-08 05:09:58be other pages this could be applicable) A similar stance would be for SCIRS topics. This should be used for content that has general encyclopedic value...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 98
Jumat, 2025-08-29 14:29:53(more information). -- VeblenBot (talk) 02:00, 27 August 2012 (UTC) WP:SCIRS has been around for some time. It's guidelines reflect the current practice...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2015 August 31
Jumat, 2023-03-03 20:47:13article cites the original research report, as WP:SCIRS allows in a situation like this. WP:SCIRS does not disallow news coverage, although it has advice...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:WikiProject Weather/Project resources/Tropical cyclone
Kamis, 2023-05-11 09:02:17WikiProject's tropical meteorology articles may also be found at WP:SCICITE and WP:SCIRS. Reports, bulletins, and other products issued by Regional Specialized Meteorological...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Newsletter/Archive 38
Kamis, 2022-07-07 04:18:16WikiProject's tropical meteorology articles may also be found at WP:SCICITE and WP:SCIRS. Reports, bulletins, and other products issued by Regional Specialized Meteorological...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2021 November 29
Sabtu, 2021-12-11 04:45:40and ideas taken from primary sources as we define a secondary source. WP:SCIRS is pretty clear that a secondary source is a review or book, which as far...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:General sanctions/Climate change probation/RFC
Selasa, 2023-03-14 19:30:51or uncivil disagreement over the proper application of WP:WEIGHT and WP:SCIRS, though sockpuppetry and single-purpose accounts out of touch with wider...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification and Amendment/Archive 118
Rabu, 2023-01-04 15:54:34community to develop sourcing guidelines along the lines of WP:MEDRS or WP:SCIRS for controversial historical topics." And also the points above by Maxim...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hippocampal theory of consciousness
Rabu, 2025-12-03 05:36:32of the WP:COI sources, but I'm just not finding appropriate WP:MEDRS/WP:SCIRS secondary coverage. None of the seemingly independent secondary sources...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Jytdog/Workshop
Rabu, 2022-05-25 17:34:47definitely favor an indefinite site ban. If he’s not indeffed, the MEDRS, SCIRS, etc need to be included. And the noticeboards. I agree that banning him...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2017 August 28
Jumat, 2023-03-03 19:51:35800-1100, D.M. Hadley, Bloomsbury, 2001. Sowerby was not a shire; it was a scir, understood as a poorly understood unit of territorial organization under...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 112
Senin, 2022-05-16 12:54:22are inaccurate. Ghostofnemo (talk) 00:41, 14 December 2011 (UTC) Per WP:SCIRS#Use up-to-date evidence "While articles should be kept up to date by citing...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2012 September 20
Minggu, 2023-02-19 00:12:51I was looking for it and couldn't find it, the relevant guidance is WP:SCIRS. My argument during this AfD has only ever been that there should be an...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 304
Sabtu, 2023-02-11 03:37:17absolutely support what Joe is recommending re: WP:SCIRS. JoelleJay (talk) 15:48, 21 July 2020 (UTC) Yes, WP:SCIRS is a good essay and deserves to be elevated...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2018 March 11
Jumat, 2023-03-03 19:14:16Delete. Lacks secondary independent coverage that we would look for in WP:SCIRS. Something would have to pass muster in Spiral galaxy before seriously considering...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2017 January 7
Jumat, 2023-03-03 19:43:45recent years and most of the sources are out of date and not solid per WP:SCIRS. There is a 3-year old proposal for merger with Phytochemical but such a...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Spiral galaxy dynamics
Rabu, 2025-12-03 07:43:49Delete. Lacks secondary independent coverage that we would look for in WP:SCIRS. Something would have to pass muster in Spiral galaxy before seriously considering...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2018 September 18
Jumat, 2023-03-03 19:06:05zero eccentricity), so it's not new. It's also pretty weak in terms of WP:SCIRS too. A single primary research article carries different weight depending...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 200
Jumat, 2023-04-28 00:01:27(UTC) You need peer-reviewed sources to back up scientific facts. See WP:SCIRS. I pointed out that there doesn't seem to be any peer-reviewed sources that...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2013 March 9
Sabtu, 2024-07-13 00:49:39I consider that quite acceptable given this circumstance. Moreover, WP:SCIRS#Popular_press states that "one possibility is to cite a higher-quality source...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2018 February 19
Jumat, 2023-03-03 19:22:11of the WP:COI sources, but I'm just not finding appropriate WP:MEDRS/WP:SCIRS secondary coverage. None of the seemingly independent secondary sources...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2016 April 9
Jumat, 2023-03-03 20:23:38ThePlatypusofDoom (talk) 16:06, 9 April 2016 (UTC) Delete: There is no evidence in WP:SCIRS literature that ingested polyphenols ("phenolics") a) have definable roles...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 158
Senin, 2023-01-30 15:50:42those associated with TM, are reliable sources, because WP:MEDRS and WP:SCIRS don't apply to social sciences (and somehow, the effect of meditation on...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 65
Selasa, 2022-06-21 23:00:07better to go to a university press or the peer reviewed literature per WP:SCIRS, but for WP:FRINGE articles it makes sense to go to a publisher who commonly...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Genetically modified organisms/Workshop
Rabu, 2025-09-24 22:05:43newspaper was removed because our guidelines for scientific content WP:MEDRS WP:SCIRS strongly caution against their use. Monsanto: The "you wouldn't believe"...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 114
Senin, 2023-01-30 15:51:47Science" on a list of "peer-reviewed open access journals". I consulted WP:SCIRS, it reads: "This page does not address reliability in context of the social...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 345
Sabtu, 2025-09-27 05:24:48about it. 12:54, 14 June 2021 (UTC) Comment/Bad RfC. One by one: per WP:SCIRS we are generally discouraged to cite popular press for scientific facts...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2014 February 7
Jumat, 2023-03-03 21:08:24Peasantry and the Growth of Lordship, where it is characterised as a 'small scir'. Andrew (talk) 12:01, 8 February 2014 (UTC) Please avoid personal accusations...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 270
Sabtu, 2023-02-11 03:36:59temperature) is a scientific one , and there I would suspect we need a WP:SCIRS-meeting publication - something like Wired, Scientific American, or even...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2007 January 10
Senin, 2023-02-27 17:54:23puzzlement. The abbreviated form is derived from the Old English Hantum plus Scir (meaning a district governed from the settlement now known as Southampton)...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 227
Sabtu, 2023-04-15 21:29:09must be based on secondary sources. Scientific content is discussed in WP:SCIRS which says "Articles published in respected peer-reviewed scientific journals...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:No original research/Noticeboard/Archive 41
Jumat, 2023-03-03 14:51:36namely about what WP:PRIMARY means in respect to WP:MEDRS, WP:HISTRS and WP:SCIRS. Origin of the Romanians#DNA / Paleogenetics seems exclusively based on...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 272
Selasa, 2025-11-18 01:10:31major news sources are running that as fact. This is the type of thing that SCIRS should be covering, whereas the measure of how much forest was lost is far...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 359
Sabtu, 2026-03-07 23:11:45medical topic, that does clarify the primary/secondary distinction. The WP:SCIRS essay may be of interest, and the WP:SECONDARY policy shows that editors...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 195
Senin, 2023-01-30 15:50:00page; this is true. Jytdog (talk) 21:06, 10 August 2015 (UTC) MEDRS and SCIRS are clear that we pull content of this sort from respected academic organizations...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 370
Minggu, 2025-07-06 23:44:59to scholarly/scientific sources when describing scientific topics per WP:SCIRS (not a guideline, sadly). Fox News is just too bad for lay summaries of...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Grey Literature
Selasa, 2024-12-31 10:48:11Large parts of SCIRS are copy-pasted from (an old version of) WP:MEDRS, but with some words changed. There may be a place for a SCIRS but it would need...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Fringe theories/Noticeboard/Archive 60
Sabtu, 2026-03-07 19:43:15archaeology dilettantes"<ref>Quoted by M. Babeș</ref>. According to WP:SCIRS and WP:HISTRS I want to see many mainstream (i.e. not from the walled garden...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 277
Jumat, 2026-02-13 03:04:21different than what you're bringing up, but in both cases, it wouldn't be a WP:SCIRS source and should have limited usage at best anyways. For this overall conversation...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/jdr.sagepub.com
Senin, 2011-05-30 04:25:07t • c • dc • l • ef • b • bl; (116) to User:Short Brigade Harvester Boris/SCIRS (edit | [[:|talk]] | history | links | watch | logs) (diff top) - Link:...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 282
Jumat, 2020-01-03 10:36:02this stuff is FRINGEY. When there is clear scientific-based claims (MEDRS/SCIRS) to demonstrate the FRINGE, that's fine, but I'm reading between the lines...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 356
Jumat, 2023-11-03 13:01:32WP:MEDANIMAL, WP:BESTSOURCES, WP:MEDPRI (policies and guidelines) and WP:RSE, WP:SCIRS, WP:RSUW (essays). I am not pulling these criteria out of nowhere. They...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 381
Minggu, 2023-08-27 03:48:12issues in clinical psychiatry, pharmacochemistry, and the like while WP:SCIRS should be considered for anything in experimental psychology, theories,...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 219
Senin, 2023-01-30 15:49:11pieces. The fact that it is a self published opinion, contradicts the WP:SCIRS statement that "Most books and monographs that are self-published or published...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/Noticeboard/Archive 15
Rabu, 2025-12-24 11:29:29different states. Yeah i know about the Normans and the first counties. Shires (Scirs) where an Anglo-Saxon thing that the Normans never really understood, but...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 332
Sabtu, 2021-03-20 18:03:38of dollars to try to "re-brand pit bulls as family dogs.". This isn't a SCIRS domain, it's standard journalistic fare. Pearlst is being obstructionist...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Education noticeboard/Archive 3
Minggu, 2026-02-22 05:12:03non-medical biology articles. Choess (talk) 23:19, 29 March 2013 (UTC) WP:SCIRS mentions that review articles are ideal sources. Review articles are a type...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 168
Jumat, 2024-10-04 07:22:08enough to establish facts of marine biology and fishery science? Shouldn't SCIRS apply here? Geogene (talk) 15:42, 1 April 2014 (UTC) I removed the copy...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard/Archive 139
Sabtu, 2025-08-02 13:39:26the topic where they teach. I favor balance and NPOV, but the MEDRS and SCIRS gang need to remember that not all "alternative" medicine consists of quack...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard/Archive 187
Senin, 2022-03-21 06:33:50in conflict with his personal agenda (or POV) based on essays such as WP:SCIRS and WP:MEDRS, while including same or similar primary and secondary content...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 383
Minggu, 2023-12-24 10:31:09been brought up before on RSN, and it seems to be entirely lacking in the SCIRS essay, which is probably where this should be consolidated. Would you consider...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Beta-Hydroxy beta-methylbutyric acid/archive1
Minggu, 2023-01-29 01:56:15remaining evidence for non-effect comes from personal accounts that are not WP:SCIRS. Publication of zero-effect results on true drug candidates is a critical...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard/Archive290
Minggu, 2024-10-20 01:06:06medicine areas , SCIRS and MEDRS do have use the primary sources to speak precisely about the work in those fields (MEDRS more so than SCIRS) as mainstream...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/Noticeboard/Archive 73
Senin, 2024-08-12 01:43:44of thought as the expert. It is important to see how this mirrors MEDRS/SCIRS, in terms of the weight put on peer-reviewed journals (or in this case,...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive/2020/01
Sabtu, 2024-10-19 22:13:04about the male-line genetic origins of people with inadmissable (per WP:SCIRS) low quality references and exclusion of references that don't fit the agenda...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Fringe theories/Noticeboard/Archive 42
Jumat, 2023-03-03 16:01:27keep the article focused on the most reliable research per WP:MEDRS and WP:SCIRS. - 2/0 (cont.) 18:27, 29 June 2014 (UTC) Yes, the problems are continuing...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/Noticeboard/Archive 86
Jumat, 2022-02-25 22:36:26scientific process involved (this would be true if we were talking MEDRS or SCIRS sourcing, and there's the whole aspect of not being able to prove a negative)...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Fringe theories/Noticeboard/Archive 77
Kamis, 2021-04-15 11:05:26them. Hemiauchenia (talk) 18:46, 3 February 2021 (UTC) There is the WP:SCIRS page, but it's only an essay. Perhaps it should evolve into something more...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2019 August 29
Selasa, 2024-07-09 13:25:13Wikipedia requires reliable sources) and I gave Al-sow a link to the WP:SCIRS page on identifying reliable sources. see (Al-sow's comment and my reply...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Fringe theories/Noticeboard/Archive 38
Jumat, 2023-03-03 16:01:38claiming that since these are "social sciences" things like WP:MEDRS and WP:SCIRS don't apply. Gaijin42 (talk) 18:47, 23 October 2013 (UTC) I cannot for the...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates/June 2021
Selasa, 2026-01-06 22:15:12into panic/fears about it but wait for actual published studies on it per SCIRS (in a similar vein as per MEDRS). That these are record breaking temps absolutely...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates/September 2021
Jumat, 2023-03-24 13:26:23debate, based on these sources. This is not censoring news, but upholding SCIRS for all purposes that as an encyclopedia, we're looking to summarize dominate...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Industrial agriculture/Proposed decision
Minggu, 2023-12-17 21:57:04concerned in these contexts about the attempt by KoA at passing off WP:SCIRS as if it were actually a guideline. There are some essays that have guideline-like...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/Archive 63
Kamis, 2020-06-18 07:27:34applied to sourcing for any medical claims contained within. (Ditto WP:SCIRS). So to me this becomes a question of 1) how can the article can be expanded...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard/Archive 179
Sabtu, 2026-03-07 23:09:37not mentioned in the Wikipedia vitamin A article, and not supported by WP:SCIRS reviews. The only edits this user has made in their editing history since...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Fringe theories/Noticeboard/Archive 49
Sabtu, 2023-03-25 19:01:23I'm happy that set of guidelines exist, but when we tried to implement WP:SCIRS, the pushback we got from fringe POV-pushers prevented implementation. We're...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard/Archive 57
Jumat, 2024-05-10 12:34:28NPOV of the article? My position is that WP:RS is suitable, perhaps WP:SCIRS though, clearly, MEDRS sources are great - when available. Further, the...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates/December 2022
Minggu, 2026-02-08 19:01:30Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 18:13, 13 December 2022 (UTC) There is a reason we have SCIRS alongside MEDRS. If a major medical reported a breakthrough in treating...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:No original research/Noticeboard/Archive 16
Senin, 2024-05-06 20:19:44you? Gigs (talk) 04:57, 15 December 2010 (UTC) The relevant page is WP:SCIRS, a controversial policy proposal similar to WP:MEDRS but for all Science...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Australian Wikipedians' notice board/Archive 58
Rabu, 2024-01-17 08:12:17self reverted my misleading additions. Sorry for the mess. I also read WP:SCIRS, which suggests that only teritery studies are used, and no primary research...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2024 July 22
Selasa, 2024-07-30 10:38:35for guidance to add relative and reputable sources. ScirIvan (talk) 06:58, 22 July 2024 (UTC) @ScirIvan, the sources are things like "18 Free and Paid...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard/Archive 209
Jumat, 2024-05-10 12:40:37use of the concept; it would make the page grow to hundreds of pages. WP:SCIRS: "The fact that a statement is published in a refereed journal does not...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 506
Sabtu, 2026-03-07 17:11:3621:41, 29 January 2026 (UTC) First source is a thesis, so no in terms of WP:SCIRS/WP:MEDRS depending on use. The second is from the National Hog Farmer, so...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Industrial agriculture/Evidence
Minggu, 2023-12-17 21:54:45comment, I'll just highlight what I said back then As is typical per WP:SCIRS or WP:MEDRS, we generally wait for secondary scientific sources (i.e. not...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2026 January 23
Sabtu, 2026-01-31 07:19:58scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL) Per WP:GNG, WP:NEO, WP:SCIRS/WP:MEDRS, and previous discussions such as apothisexuality, noetisexuality...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard/Archive346
Sabtu, 2023-03-04 10:51:52experts here - claim must be true. Its the reason MEDRS (and to an extent, SCIRS) exist, to point out that there are only certain soruces that can make authorative...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 509
Minggu, 2026-03-08 00:34:37objective truth of anything they claim., and I had this essay saved: WP:SCIRS#White_and_grey_literature, which says: "Advocacy organizations formed for...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Archived nominations/October 2016
Minggu, 2016-10-30 12:56:26remaining evidence for non-effect comes from personal accounts that are not WP:SCIRS. Publication of zero-effect results on true drug candidates is a critical...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 189
Kamis, 2024-07-25 13:14:03December 2023 (UTC) There is already WP:RSLAW, which is an essay (like WP:SCIRS and others but not MEDRS). It seems pretty thorough, however it is almost...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Fringe theories/Noticeboard/Archive 99
Minggu, 2024-05-19 00:11:35The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 435
Senin, 2024-07-22 00:41:33criteria, though there is a general "science" sources recommendation at WP:SCIRS. My point is that any organized subject area, typically meaning something...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2025 July 31
Jumat, 2025-08-08 10:25:28WP:BEFORE search, "apothisexuality" has not been discussed by any WP:MEDRS/WP:SCIRS—which would be necessary in order to even define the concept since it is...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates/December 2023
Rabu, 2026-01-21 15:02:59media to confirm this. And more preferably from sources that would meet SCIRS (not necessarily a peer reviewed paper, but some source with a good foundation...
Click to read more »Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates/March 2023
Rabu, 2026-04-08 06:16:02medical-based stories (this is one), we expect a peer-reviewed source per SCIRS and MEDRS. Newspapers and the general media are not experts to be able to...
Click to read more »