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::: Thanks so much for your perceptive observations and question. I'll try to answer each of your questions (and the one below) in turn over the next few days as well as make edits elsewhere on the wiki (some of which were already planned on my part) to try to illustrate my points.[[User:EnWikiAdmin|EnWikiAdmin]] ([[User talk:EnWikiAdmin|talk]]) 00:37, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

:::In response to your first paragraph, [[User:Millipede|Millipede]], apologies for any seemingly contradicting and inconsistent descriptions. Some aspects of the wiki are definitely still evolving, but I think we have a good idea of what it ultimately should look like. I will eventually put the bulk of my response in the new section below because it is very long and sort of deals with topics that we don't have fully agreed-upon rules on yet. But just to directly answer your initial question about whether this aims to be unbiased or to counteract mainstream bias with an opposite bias: in short, we intend for it to be the former (unbiased). As I said, I will post a much longer discussion about this, hopefully in the next few days.

:::In response to your second paragraph, yes, the latter, [[alien]]s and [[cosmic conspiracy|all of that stuff]] just happen to be a big interest of contributors so far, but we intend for it to potentially cover at least every subject for which "the picture" "changes" even slightly (compared to Wikipedia or other "standard" sources) when a fuller range of [[Ikwipedia:acceptable sources|] is used. The front page list of topics is really more appropriately called the "quasi-organized selection of topics" and is both sort of a starting point and a way to illustrate (or set a "lower bound" for) the scope of the wiki. We plan to eventually have a more organized and complete catalog, if possible. I should note that we also don't necessarily consider [[Template:Exotic technology]] or other [[:Category:content templates|navigation boxes]] to currently be even close to "balanced", accurate, or comprehensive. We will be adding more sections/content to the list of topics partly in response in to your comments and questions.

:::Regarding your third paragraph, thanks for asking about the [[Rife device]]. That is certainly within the scope of the encyclopedia! All of that stuff... frankly, anything that's a subject of a conspiracy theory is a good candidate for the encyclopedia. Just to illustrate further, I would suggest (only to the extent the following reflects a correct understanding) a whole slew of things like "[[mortal oscillatory rate]]", [[Royal Raymond Rife|Rife]]'s "[[universal microscope]]" and alleged [[history of sub-diffraction-limit microscopy|sub-diffraction-limit-resolved]] optical microscopy, the whole topic of alleged [[individual electromagnetic signature|individual-]] or [[organism-specific electromagnetic signatures]], "[[healing frequencies]]", alleged [[capabilities of electromagnetic radiation of specific frequencies|monochromatic electromagnetic frequencies with specific capabilities]], alleged [[medical advances suppressed by the FDA]] (one of multiple alleged [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_inventors_killed_by_their_own_invention tragic/ironic] categories of [[regulatory capture]] we might cover), alleged [[influence of the Rockefeller Foundation on biomedical research and medical education|influence]] of the [[Rockefeller Foundation]] that allegedly served to co-opt the direction of certain research endeavors [[list of conflicts of interest identified as motives in disputed conspiracy theories|in ways that allegedly benefited corporations owned by its board members]], [[philanthropic capture]], [[elite capture]], [[Flexner Report]], etc.

[[User:EnWikiAdmin|EnWikiAdmin]] ([[User talk:EnWikiAdmin|talk]]) 07:07, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

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== Regarding guidelines on sources and neutrality ==

The response I'm preparing to [[User:Millipede|Millipede]]'s questions above on bias, use of sources, etc. is so long and wide-ranging that it needs its own section, so I will be putting it here. I will be back later to start posting it. [[User:EnWikiAdmin|EnWikiAdmin]] ([[User talk:EnWikiAdmin|talk]]) 17:31, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

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 ::: Thanks so much for your perceptive observations and question. I'll try to answer each of your questions (and the one below) in turn over the next few days as well as make edits elsewhere on the wiki (some of which were already planned on my part) to try to illustrate my points.[[User:EnWikiAdmin|EnWikiAdmin]] ([[User talk:EnWikiAdmin|talk]]) 00:37, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
+:::In response to your first paragraph, [[User:Millipede|Millipede]], apologies for any seemingly contradicting and inconsistent descriptions. Some aspects of the wiki are definitely still evolving, but I think we have a good idea of what it ultimately should look like. I will eventually put the bulk of my response in the new section below because it is very long and sort of deals with topics that we don't have fully agreed-upon rules on yet. But just to directly answer your initial question about whether this aims to be unbiased or to counteract mainstream bias with an opposite bias: in short, we intend for it to be the former (unbiased). As I said, I will post a much longer discussion about this, hopefully in the next few days.
+:::In response to your second paragraph, yes, the latter, [[alien]]s and [[cosmic conspiracy|all of that stuff]] just happen to be a big interest of contributors so far, but we intend for it to potentially cover at least every subject for which "the picture" "changes" even slightly (compared to Wikipedia or other "standard" sources) when a fuller range of [[Ikwipedia:acceptable sources|] is used. The front page list of topics is really more appropriately called the "quasi-organized selection of topics" and is both sort of a starting point and a way to illustrate (or set a "lower bound" for) the scope of the wiki. We plan to eventually have a more organized and complete catalog, if possible. I should note that we also don't necessarily consider [[Template:Exotic technology]] or other [[:Category:content templates|navigation boxes]] to currently be even close to "balanced", accurate, or comprehensive. We will be adding more sections/content to the list of topics partly in response in to your comments and questions.
+:::Regarding your third paragraph, thanks for asking about the [[Rife device]]. That is certainly within the scope of the encyclopedia! All of that stuff... frankly, anything that's a subject of a conspiracy theory is a good candidate for the encyclopedia. Just to illustrate further, I would suggest (only to the extent the following reflects a correct understanding) a whole slew of things like "[[mortal oscillatory rate]]", [[Royal Raymond Rife|Rife]]'s "[[universal microscope]]" and alleged [[history of sub-diffraction-limit microscopy|sub-diffraction-limit-resolved]] optical microscopy, the whole topic of alleged [[individual electromagnetic signature|individual-]] or [[organism-specific electromagnetic signatures]], "[[healing frequencies]]", alleged [[capabilities of electromagnetic radiation of specific frequencies|monochromatic electromagnetic frequencies with specific capabilities]], alleged [[medical advances suppressed by the FDA]] (one of multiple alleged [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_inventors_killed_by_their_own_invention tragic/ironic] categories of [[regulatory capture]] we might cover), alleged [[influence of the Rockefeller Foundation on biomedical research and medical education|influence]] of the [[Rockefeller Foundation]] that allegedly served to co-opt the direction of certain research endeavors [[list of conflicts of interest identified as motives in disputed conspiracy theories|in ways that allegedly benefited corporations owned by its board members]], [[philanthropic capture]], [[elite capture]], [[Flexner Report]], etc.
+[[User:EnWikiAdmin|EnWikiAdmin]] ([[User talk:EnWikiAdmin|talk]]) 07:07, 26 December 2024 (UTC)
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 == Regarding guidelines on sources and neutrality ==
 The response I'm preparing to [[User:Millipede|Millipede]]'s questions above on bias, use of sources, etc. is so long and wide-ranging that it needs its own section, so I will be putting it here. I will be back later to start posting it. [[User:EnWikiAdmin|EnWikiAdmin]] ([[User talk:EnWikiAdmin|talk]]) 17:31, 25 December 2024 (UTC)