Wikipedia:Update/1/Content policy changes during December 2008

• WP:Biographies of living persons
  • Remove from lead section, after removed immediately and without waiting for discussion: "from Wikipedia articles, talk pages, user pages, and project space"
  • A few obvious clarifications, and deletion of some repeated sentences

• WP:Naming conventions
  • Added pointer to Wikipedia:Naming conventions (baseball players)
  • Removed subsection WP:NAME#All Blacks (nickname of New Zealand's national rugby union team)

• WP:Neutral point of view
  • Added link to WP:NPOV#Other resources: the essay Wikipedia:Scientific consensus
  • A paragraph was added but reverted soon after Dec 31
  • Minor rewording for clarity

• WP:No original research
  • Added to lead section: "The "Original research" rule does not forbid routine calculations (like adding numbers, rounding them, turning them into percentages, putting then on a graph, or calculating a person's age, or giving the distances between geographical points) that add no new information not already present."
  • Removed the footnote to WP:NOR#Synthesis of published material which advances a position: "The rule against "A and B therefore C" does not, in general, refer to statements A,B and C that are non-controversial and easily reducible to elementary deductive logic. See also, WP:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence"
  • In WP:NOR#Using sources, changed "Passages open to interpretation" to "Passages open to multiple interpretations"
  • Major rewriting of WP:NOR#Primary, secondary and tertiary sources

• WP:Non-free content criteria
  • Added to WP:NFCC#Enforcement, after "Note that it is for users seeking to include or retain content to provide a valid rationale, not for those seeking to remove or delete it to show that one cannot be created.": "See burden of proof."

• WP:Verifiability
  • Added to WP:V#Burden of evidence, after "Any material lacking a reliable source may be removed, but editors might object if you remove material without giving them sufficient time to provide references,": "and it has always been good practice, and expected behavior of Wikipedia editors (in line with our editing policy), to make reasonable efforts to find sources oneself that support such material, and cite them."
  • Added to list of presumably self-published sources: "podcasts, vcasts, patents, patent applications"
  • In WP:V#Self-published sources, added "and other periodicals": "Some newspapers and other periodicals host interactive columns that they call blogs ...". Also changed "Self-published material may, in some circumstances, be acceptable when produced by an established expert ..." to "Self-published work is acceptable to use in some circumstances, with limitations. For example, material may sometimes be cited which is self-published by an established expert ...". Also added "Self-published work by non-experts may also be used in limited circumstances, as described below."
  • In WP:V#Using self-published and questionable sources as sources on themselves, removed the last condition: "the source in question has been mentioned specifically in relation to the article's subject by an independent, reliable source."
  • Removed from WP:V#See also: Wikipedia:Forum for Encyclopedic Standards

• WP:What Wikipedia is not
  • Added to WP:NOT#Content: "The examples under each section are not intended to be exhaustive; see WP:BEANS."