Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics/Taskforces/Relativity

The Relativity Taskforce is set up to better organize and present information in all articles related to the theories of Special and General relativity. We hope that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians to improve all relativity-related articles in order to make Wikipedia the premier online resource for relativity-related information for all who visit. In order to maintain a reasonable length of relativity articles (and avoid possibly unnecessary duplication), editors are encouraged to peruse the wikibooks:

• Wikibook Special Relativity.
• Wikibook General Relativity.

The project's main aim is to concentrate solely on the classical aspects of relativity (i.e. no quantum mechanics), although some articles may mention aspects of quantum relativity. More specific goals for the project are to:

• Present an up-to-date and mainstream view of the status of special relativity and general relativity as physical theories.
• Carefully assess articles on non-mainstream views of relativity to determine if they should be in Wikipedia.
• Incorporate a variety of reliable references into relativity articles.
• Improve the quality and quantity of relativity related articles, including improving special relativity and general relativity to featured article status.
• Include more (and expand current) articles on actual experiments to test relativity.

Participation in this project is open to all users who want to contribute to relativity articles. Please add your name to the list of participants below using {{user|username}} to join the project. If you don't have a Wikipedia account yet you can sign up here.

Participants:

• Cjayross (talk · contribs)
• Mpatel (talk · contribs)
• Clinton (talk) 14:40, 9 April 2017 (UTC) [reply ]
• ems57fcva (talk · contribs)
• Harald88 (talk · contribs)
• JRSpriggs (talk · contribs)
• Alfred Centauri (talk · contribs)
• ErNa (talk · contribs)
• Gaussyful (talk · contribs)
• Timb66 (talk · contribs)
• Temurjin (talk · contribs)
• Lantonov (talk · contribs)
• Lsfinn (talk · contribs) consult me on gravitational wave astronomy, data analysis, detection, detectors
• John C. Huang (talk · contribs)
• Michael C Price (talk · contribs)
• smenge32 (talk · contribs)
• Terry0051 (talk · contribs)
• Magmalex (talk · contribs)
• NOrbeck (talk · contribs)
• Bruce_rout (talk · contribs)
• Sridattadev (talk · contribs)
• DWHalliday (talk · contribs)
• D.H (talk · contribs) (History of relativity)
• Orentago (talk · contribs)
• trodemaster (talk · contribs)
• Phn229 (talk · contribs)
• Wasee Ahmed (talk · contribs)
• kenanwang (talk · contribs)
• Hipatia (talk · contribs)
• LCcritic (talk · contribs)
• RFNo (talk · contribs)
• ManitouLance (talk · contribs)
• Sk8forether (talk · contribs)
• Heuh0 (talk · contribs)
• ChemicalG (talk · contribs)
• TheHecster (talk · contribs)
• jwill530 (talk · contribs)
• PennyDarling (talk · contribs)
• Kebl0155 (talk · contribs)
• RLO1729 (talk · contribs)
• QRUnifier001 (talk · contribs)
• Flappy Pigeon (talk · contribs) - I know about neutron stars, black holes, wormholes, and the fabric of space in particular.
• Tarnoob (talk · contribs)
• Cinescienza (talk · contribs)
• Sleyece (talk · contribs) - I'm very happy to be here; the focus of my work will be page creation.
• theophilus71 (talk · contribs)
• Crawsome Crustacean (talk · contribs)
• Least Action (talk · contribs)
• Shocksingularity (talk · contribs)

'For old notices, see Relativity Taskforce Noticeboard.

Articles for deletion

• 16 Oct 2025 – Black hole electron (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Johnjbarton (t · c) was closed as merge by Liz (t · c) on 23 Oct 2025; see discussion (11 participants)

Proposed deletions

• 15 Oct 2025 – Black hole electron (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Johnjbarton (t · c) was deproded by Eva UX (t · c) on 16 Oct 2025

For a planned rewrite of Variable speed of light, see my comment on the talk page.ClassicalPhysicist (talk) 22:48, 12 January 2013 (UTC) [reply ]

Please post any announcements pertaining to new articles at New Relativity Articles

The following list gives various tasks needed to be performed and issues to be addressed in articles. Articles should be listed alphabetically for ease of identification.

• Black hole
• Mass–energy equivalence
• Principle of relativity
• Solutions of the Einstein field equations
• Spacetime
• Special relativity
• Theory of relativity

Many articles on relativity are missing.

A comprehensive list of relativity resources can be found at general relativity resources, but here is a general selection including some popular sources:

• General Relativity by Robert M. Wald.
• Gravitation by Charles W. Misner, Kip Thorne and John Archibald Wheeler.
• The Large Scale Structure of Spacetime by Stephen Hawking.

• Living Reviews in Relativity
• Physical Review Letters
• Classical and Quantum Gravity
• E-print archive general relativity and quantum cosmology

• Wikipedia:Citation templates

Type {{physics|class=|importance=|relativity=yes}} at the top of an article's talk page to indicate that it's in the relativity project; it will produce: