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WikiLetters.org is a dynamic-database highlighting and integrating what seems to genuinely support science (directly/indirectly). WikiLetters also supports the advancement of the following services for #BuildingBetterScience:

• Wiki-Letters (Letters of caveats about papers)
• WikiComments (Peer-reviewed Comments about papers
• WikiCitingRetracted (Papers that cited retractions)
• WikiRetracted (Papers retracted from the scientific system)
• WikiErratum (Minor corrections about papers in the level of Erratum/Corrigendum/Improper-Citation)
• WL-Systematic Review SR (a dynamic-method suggested for SR)
• WikiJournal of Science (A scientific journal free and transparent in all levels)
• Scholia (A bridge between Wikidata and Science)
• WikiData (Connecting data to humans and machines)
• WikiCite (Processing Citations that strengthen Wikipedia articles)
• Wikiversity (A bridge between Universities and the Wiki-ecosystem)

Additional very important systems supporting better science

• RetractionWatch (news about retractions)
• PubPeer (notes)

WikiCitingRetracted (About)

WikiCitingRetracted (WC) is an independent platform supported by WikiLetters. WikiCitingRetracted is complementary to a number of other platforms supporting science. It allows journals, scientists, researchers, students and maybe others to store the meta information about articles that have cited a retraction or retracted-article. In other words, the meta about both articles that may have merely cited a retraction or used relevant information such as data, invalid-method and others.

Citing a retraction is becoming more common than you think in the current peer-review system, however, we are missing keeping track of these connections so that WikiCitingRetracted aims to cover this aspect to better support science.

Following the wiki-ecosystem, here you are not required to provide your personal details, and here your submitted connections becomes available online instantaneously so others can have access to all. Furthermore, WL-CitingRetraction gives you the opportunity to append the citation piece, which is most likely to be a "neutral citation" (~ 95% chance). And please remember, the freedom you have here is very much in the core of a wiki-ecosystem.

WikiCitingRetracted (Content contribution)

Figure 1: Suggested template to provide your contribution.

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

A similar written explanation for consideration:

• Wikipedia explanation

, and a few tutorials for consideration:

• Youtube-tutorial
• Youtube-tutorial
• Youtube-tutorial

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

Create the page "TITLE-A" on this wiki!

From this point, you are welcome to click over the title in red to create this new information.

WikiCitingRetracted (Structure)

It is suggested a very simple structure that contains the information about the article being commented upon and the article providing the comments. See examples below

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.

Comments

In WikiCitingRetracted you have the freedom to append new information at any time, and to comment in this section using the box below.
-- Anduttawikierratum1981 (talk) 13:13, 7 July 2022 (UTC)