Parapsychological Association (Wikipedia)

The Wikipedia article on the Parapsychological Association is a community edited encyclopedic summary of the organization, its 1969 founding, its affiliation with the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and its stated purpose of advancing methodologically rigorous research into psychic phenomena. Its strength is that a well trafficked Wikipedia article on a decades old organization typically collects and cites a range of independent sources on the organization's history and status, useful for stable factual detail such as founding dates and affiliations. Its limit is that Wikipedia is a continuously and anonymously editable reference rather than a peer reviewed publication, appropriate for ordinary factual and biographical claims about the organization but not as the source for a contested or specialist claim about the scientific standing of parapsychology itself, which belongs to the peer reviewed literature and its critics rather than to an encyclopedia entry describing the association.