User:Mediathink

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==Useful pages:==

Wikipedia policy
Article standards
Neutral point of view
Verifiability
No original research
Biographies of living persons
Working with others
Civility
Consensus
No personal attacks
Dispute resolution
No legal threats
Global principles
What Wikipedia is not
Ignore all rules

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[edit] Worthy of Repetition

[edit] Netoholic's Law

As a wiki discussion grows longer, the probability of an accusation by one user of another acting unilaterally approaches one.

[edit] Corollary

One can substitute any of the following for "unilaterally", and the law still works -- "against consensus", "mindlessly", "carelessly". Any of these words indicates you might be facing off against a wiki-warrior.

[edit] Other (stolen) wisdom [1]

  • Wikipedia:Ignore all rules is a paradox. One is expressly failing to "ignore all rules" by citing WP:IAR.
    In other words, if you do something and justify it with IAR, you are implicitly acknowledging that there are rules.
  • <jwales> There are people who have good sense. There are idiots. A consensus of idiots does not override good sense. Wikipedia is not a democracy.
  • Morrissey: "There's always someone, somewhere with a big nose, who knows... who trips you up and laughs When you fall"[2]
  • "So, if Wikipedia is such a popular site, and anyone can add an article, shouldn't savvy PR folks proactively submit an article about their organization or client? Well… maybe. The Wikipedia community takes several concepts very seriously. First, an article topic should only be submitted if it has broad enough appeal to be in a normal encyclopedia. Second, all information should be independently verifiable from external sources. And, finally, all articles should strictly adhere to a "neutral point of view," representing views "fairly and without bias." This is considered an inviolable principle, and articles that show a disregard for the neutral point of view rule will be quickly removed or edited by other users." [3]
  • "Who has written the material should be irrelevant so long as these policies (Neutral_point_of_view, Attribution, No original research) are closely adhered to. The imputation of conflict of interest is not by itself a good reason to remove sound material from articles".[4]

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Mediathink 19:27, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

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