Talk:Tinfoil hat

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No mention of the study by MIT students that proved that tinfoil hats -amplify- some frequencies? Frequencies that are suspiciously reserved by the US government? I'll look that up and add it to the page. - Mozai 12:11, 26 May 2006 (CDT)

Thanks anon-207.96.182.162

Getting that information onto that page has been on my list of things to do for a long time now.
Thanks for getting it done.

--Umbrax:|Sysop 12:27, 26 May 2006 (CDT)

I deleted the "How to make" section

I have just now deleted the "How to make" section. The encyclopedic style should, as it seems to me, present information from a neutral point of view. This means the article here should talk about what a tinfoil hat is, from various aspects, and put it into contexts, and so on. However, sections that talk like, "If you are in an emergency, place two sheets of tinfoil around your head from front to back", are decidedly not encyclopedic, at least not according to my personal view.

Information on how how tinfoil hats are made, is of course relevant information. Such information should, however, be provided in a strictly neutral and descriptive form. tinWiki should provide encyclopedic information, not emergency crash courses, or any sort of course or instruction, in how to make or do anything at all. Information on how certain things are done, can, yes, be relevant in the encyclopedic context of an article. But such descriptions should not be written to a second-person (you). I have deleted the section on how to make a tinfoil hat. Such information should probably be part of the article, but in a different style from that how this section appeared. Optimist 12:31, 18 May 2008 (CDT)