User:Greeneggs/sandbox

I'm trying to figure out why the fourth purpose listed on the main page:

"Analysis and criticism of how these subjects are handled in the media."

seems to be disconnected from all the things that fall within its purview, and why it seems so abandoned that an editor suggests nixing the page 'for' media. This fourth purpose truly seems to represent the overall purpose of RW most accurately. It is given very high priority in the RW mission but seems lost between the cracks. There is a portal for logic full of great stuff. Of the (six?) prominent sparkly portals, this 'Logic' portal comes closest to representing that fourth purpose, and the overriding purpose of RW. It's all about communication; but aside from that portal, the underlying point of all the writing, and tidbits and stubs sprinkled everywhere, the structural design and bulk of content is focused on WHAT, not HOW. 'Media' represents the 'how', so does another neglected stub; 'Liberal Arts', and the high standard of reverence for humor, theater, and play.

The structural layout is the hardest part to map in my head; this is as far as I've gotten in getting the lay of it, and especially this part, where I might be most helpful. Beginning to think this thing is mainly UK/EU, so also negotiating unfamiliar perspectives, terminologies, and 'givens' of shared background info too. Not even getting into my unfamiliarity with and the balkiness of layout functions here.

Here I am working for free again, on mental vacation. It is more productive than playing Bookworm or Sudoku.

4 main purposes:

   Analyzing and refuting pseudoscience and the anti-science movement.
   Documenting the full range of crank ideas.
   Explorations of authoritarianism and fundamentalism.
   Analysis and criticism of how these subjects are handled in the media.