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== {{#fas:scroll}} WikiLetters.org ==

[https://www.wikiletters.org WikiLetters.org] is a dynamical database highlighting and integrating what seems to genuinely support science (directly/indirectly). WikiLetters also supports the advancement of the following services for #BuildingBetterScience:

* [https://wikiletters.net Wiki-Letters (written Letters about papers)]
* [https://wikicomments.org WikiComments (peer-reviewed Comments about papers]
* [https://wikicitingretracted.org WikiCitingRetracted (papers that cited retractions)]
* [https://wikierratum.org WikiErratum (minor corrections about papers)]
* [https://wikiretracted.org WikiRetracted (papers retracted from the system)]
* [https://archive.org/details/wikiletters-systematic-review WL-Systematic Review SR (a dynamical-method to access and assess literature for a SR)]
* [https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_of_Science/About WikiJournal of Science (transparency in all levels journal)]
* [https://scholia.toolforge.org/ Scholia (connecting wikidata and science)]
* [https://www.wikidata.org WikiData (turning science into data)]
* [https://wikicite.org/ WikiCite (citation processing)]
* [https://en.wikiversity.org Wikiversity]

Additional very important systems supporting #BuildingBetterScience

* [https://retractionwatch.com RetractionWatch (news about retractions)]
* [https://pubpeer.com PubPeer (notes)]

== {{#fas:scroll}} Wiki-Letters (About) ==

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WikiLetters (WL-Letters) is an independent platform supported by WikiLetters. It allows scientists and researchers to anonymously provide a lengthy letter of caveats or limitations that they have identified in published scientific articles. Writing a WL-Letter is quite similar to writing a comment to any scientific journal. However, here you are not required to provide your personal details, and here your submitted letter becomes available online instantaneously so others can benefit from your comments.

If you wish to write one single small piece of critique related to a potential misconduct, such as manipulation of data and results, then WL strongly suggests you to consider [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PubPeer PubPeer], because PubPeer is a recognized platform for properly handling properly such matters. However, if you want to offer a comment not related to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misconduct misconduct], a caveat that could even be appended with other caveats about this same publication, then WL-Letters is very likely to suit your needs. This process of appending and improving information is very similar to the building and growth of any Wikipedia article, and it can support better science for future generations to inherit.

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20220704103255/https://www.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia evolving through time]

WL-Letters welcomes authors aiming to bring light to caveats affecting their own articles, as well as other commenters. Please keep a civil tone, because we all are humans in the end. Traditional peer-review is a good first step in the quality assurance process, but continued discussion and refinement move things further. Some limitations can pass through initial peer review without being noticed. Consequently, WL-Letters provides an unique opportunity to level up the quality of any scientific article by making explicit the caveats or limitations about an article. 

Scrutiny in science sometimes happens in the scientific literature, but there are many good reasons for one scientist not to assess the ideas of other scientists, because some scientists may not well accept critiques or pointed caveats upon their work. This fear of critiques by scientists is also explained by science ([https://www.inc.com/scott-mautz/science-says-were-wired-to-fear-criticism-so-fix-it-with-these-6-tips.html READ]). However, the suppression of critiques of scientific articles prompts reduction in quality, integrity, transparency and a number of other attributes which should be intrinsic to science.

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== {{#fas:scroll}} Wiki-Letters (Caveats) ==

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Caveats, or limitations, is something very common and intrinsic to any scientific article. During the peer-review process of most scientific publications, it is very common for authors of an article to include some degree of awareness and indicate a few limitations about an article under review. The insertion of such information  motivates editors and reviewers to feel more confident that the article is ready of almost ready to be accepted. An editor handling a publication definitely feels more confident about accepting an article in which authors placed efforts towards discussing about (1) what could be missing?, (2) what could be further improved, (3) what we could not cover?, and a few other questions not listed here.

After an article is published, you may eventually notice some caveats that were not displayed in your article, and mostly because you are gaining knowledge through your life experience. However, you believe displaying these caveats could benefit others making use of your article, or maybe another article you are currently reading. These kind of caveats are currently hidden in the present system of science, because so far no other platform, not to our current knowledge, has ever provided an opportunity to researchers to demonstrate higher level of awareness with others.

Our goals it to have most of the content sourced from the actual authors of an article. However, you are more than welcome to provide caveats towards someone else's article as long as you are mindfull about language to be considered, that means the famous "tone down some words". Because in the end, this platform is from humans to humans.

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== {{#fas:scroll}} Wiki-Letters (Content contribution) ==

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To contribute to WL-Letters is fairly simple, and quite similar to creating a Wikipedia article.

A similar written explanation for consideration:

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_create_a_page Wikipedia explanation]

, and a few tutorials for consideration:

* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBCxb9oaz5s‎ Youtube-tutorial]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_k_VbCDm2Y Youtube-tutorial]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CwiZIsaM7s Youtube-tutorial]

You need to initially search for the full title of an article (e.g. TITLE-A) inside WL-Letters to confirm it's non-existence. The confirmation of non-existence would provide you a result displaying the sentence:

<span style="background:#c0c0c0">Create the page "<span style="color:#ff0000">'''TITLE-A'''</span>" on this wiki!</span>

From this point, you are welcome to click over the title in red to create this new WL-Letter.
[[File:WL-Template-02.png|alt=WL-Letter template|thumb|Figure 1: Suggested template displaying minimum sections expected in a WL-Letter.]]

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== {{#fas:scroll}} Wiki-Letters (Letter structure) ==
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It is suggested a letter structure that contains some very basic headings, which may be found in

* [https://wikiletters.net/index.php?title=%E2%80%98Sticky_water%E2%80%99_enables_the_retention_of_larvae_in_a_reef_mosaic WL-Letter (01)]
* [https://wikiletters.net/index.php?title=Flow_through_animal_burrows_in_mangrove_creeks WL-Letter (02)]
* [https://wikiletters.net/index.php?title=Measurement_of_sediment_deposition_rates_using_an_optical_backscatter_sensor WL-Letter (03)]
* [https://wikiletters.net/index.php?title=Spatial_and_temporal_patterns_of_near-surface_chlorophyll_a_in_the_Great_Barrier_Reef_lagoon WL-Letter (04)]
* [https://wikiletters.net/index.php?title=Three_lines_of_evidence_to_link_outbreaks_of_the_crown-of-thorns_seastar_Acanthaster_planci_to_the_release_of_larval_food_limitation WL-Letter (05)]
* [https://wikiletters.net/index.php?title=The_Anthropocene_Equation WL-Letter (06)]
* [https://wikiletters.net/index.php?title=Global_Warming_and_recurrent_mass_bleaching_of_corals WL-Letter (07)]
* [https://wikiletters.net/index.php?title=A_sediment_level_sensor_for_erosion_and_siltation_detection WL-Letter (08)]
* [https://wikiletters.net/index.php?title=Deep_reefs_of_the_Great_Barrier_Reef_offer_limited_thermal_refuge_during_mass_coral_bleaching WL-Letter (09)]
* [https://wikiletters.net/index.php?title=Southward_shift_of_the_global_wind_energy_resource_under_high_carbon_dioxide_emissions WL-Letter (10)]

Note: Please consider the very basic headings displayed in Figure-1. However, if you are welcome to include additional headings and sub-headings whenever needed.

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== {{#fas:scroll}} Wiki-Letters (Fair language expectations) ==

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WL-Letters is meant to be a platform just for science and free from discrimination, dishonesty, impartiality and other attributes drifting away from the goal of making science even better.

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== Comments ==
In WL-Letters you have the freedom to respond to any caveat that may be inaccurate.
<br />-- [[User:Andutta|Andutta]] ([[User talk:Andutta|talk]]) 18:14, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

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<br />--  01:08, 18 July 2022 (UTC)