User:Ed Poor/undue weight
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Suppose you want to say that a certain idea is true, and you want to keep another (opposing) idea out of Wikipedia. That's not really allowed here, is it?
Policy[edit]
- Wikipedia:Neutral point of view
- All Wikipedia articles and other encyclopedic content must be written from a neutral point of view (NPOV), representing fairly, and as far as possible without bias, all significant views that have been published by reliable sources. This is non-negotiable and expected of all articles, and of all article editors. []
- Undue Weight
- NPOV says that the article should fairly represent all significant viewpoints that have been published by a reliable source, and should do so in proportion to the prominence of each.
- Views that are held by a tiny minority should not be represented except in articles devoted to those views.
- Wikipedia:Verifiability
- The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth—that is, whether readers are able to check that material added to Wikipedia has already been published by a reliable source, not whether we think it is true.
- Wikipedia:No original research
- This includes unpublished facts, arguments, speculation, and ideas; and any unpublished analysis or synthesis of published material that serves to advance a position. This means that Wikipedia is not the place to publish your own opinions, experiences, or arguments.
Guidelines[edit]
Essays[edit]
- Wikipedia:Tendentious_editing
- You might think that it is a great place to set the record straight and Right Great Wrongs, but that’s not the case. We can record the righting of great wrongs, but we can’t ride the crest of the wave because we can only report that which is verifiable from reliable secondary sources, giving appropriate weight to the balance of informed opinion: what matters is not truth but verifiability. So if you want to expose a popular artist as a child molester or vindicate a murder convict you believe to be innocent on Wikipedia, you’ll have to wait until it’s been picked up in mainstream journals, or get that to happen first. Wikipedia is not a publisher of original thought or original research. (See: Righting Great Wrongs)