User:SlimVirgin/Policies
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| Selection of policies and guidelines I've helped to write |
Content policies
Biographies of living personsEditors must take particular care when adding information about living persons to any Wikipedia page. Such material requires a high degree of sensitivity, and must adhere strictly to all applicable laws in the United States, to this policy, and to Wikipedia's three core content policies. ... Contentious material about living persons ... that is unsourced or poorly sourced – whether the material is negative, positive, neutral, or just questionable – should be removed immediately. ...
- No original researchWikipedia articles must not contain original research (OR). The phrase original research is used on Wikipedia to refer to material ... for which no reliable, published sources exist. This includes any analysis or synthesis of published material that serves to reach or imply a conclusion not stated by the sources.
- VerifiabilityThe threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth – whether readers can check that material added to Wikipedia has been published by a reliable source, not whether editors think it is true. Editors should provide a reliable source for quotations, and for any material that is challenged or likely to be challenged.
Guidelines
Conflict of interestConflict of interest (COI) editing involves contributing to Wikipedia about yourself, family, friends, clients, employers, or your financial or other relationships. ... COI editing is strongly discouraged. It undermines the public's confidence in Wikipedia, and risks causing public embarrassment to the individuals being promoted.
- SockpuppetryThe use of multiple Wikipedia user accounts for an improper purpose is called sock puppetry ... Improper purposes include attempts to deceive or mislead other editors, disrupt discussions, distort consensus, avoid sanctions, evade blocks or otherwise violate community standards and policies. ... Wikipedia editors are generally expected to edit using only one (preferably registered) account.
Essays
- Writing about women
- When writing about women on Wikipedia, make sure the content and titles do not inadvertently use sexist language or promote sexist stereotypes. Women comprise between 8.5 and 16.1 percent of editors on the English Wikipedia. This means that most articles are written by men, as are most of the content policies, including the notability and referencing policies. Those policies determine which articles about women can be hosted and frame many of the ways in which they are written. The combined effects of personnel and policies, then, may be responsible for the gender imbalance of our content.