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Requests for summaries are requests for integrating a summary of certain high quality information into Wikipedia. You can make such a request when you come across an interesting report or study, but either do not fully understand it or do not have the time to write a complete summary. Types of documents that should be listed here are:

  • reports of all types
  • comprehensive article series
  • books which are available online in full text
  • shared resources available to other Wikipedians

Please list articles a particular document may be relevant to.

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The Euclidean path integral over all topologically trivial metrics can be done by time slicing and so is unitary when analytically continued to the Lorentzian. On the other hand, the path integral over all topologically non-trivial metrics is asymptotically independent of the initial state. Thus the total path integral is unitary and information is not lost in the formation and evaporation of black holes. The way the information gets out seems to be that a true event horizon never forms, just an apparent horizon.

--GR Conference website summary of Hawking's talk.

  • John Taylor Gatto's The Underground History of Education contains some interesting insights that are relevant to school, education etc. A summary of the book can be found at The Memory Hole, and one chapter per month is posted on Gatto's website (currently chapters 1-9).
Posted a brief intro. Am re-reading the book (a good read) for further anecdotes.--azwaldo 23:36, 4 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Political Conservativism as Motivated Social Cognition is a controversial paper. The full text of the study can be found here. The adjunct, in which the authors address some objections to the study, can be found here. This would probably best be integrated into political conservative.
  • Dark Alliance is a multi part article series published in the San Jose Mercury News about the alleged involvement of the CIA in the crack cocaine explosion of the 1980s. Relevant to conspiracy theory but probably deserves its own page.
  • an article on the resolution of the Katie.com fiasco and the influence bloggers and slashdotters had on the outcome. Illustrate the power of mass mobilization of online communities and whether it has any relavence in the real world.