Conrad Bairagi
Joined 27 April 2018
Latest comment: 6 years ago by Ian.thomson in topic A summary of some important site policies and guidelines
Conrad Bairagi, you are invited to the Teahouse!
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A summary of some important site policies and guidelines
edit- Please sign your posts on talk pages with four tildes (~~~~, found next to the 1 key), and please do not change others' comments.
- "Truth" is not the only criteria for inclusion, verifiability is also required.
- We do not publish original thought nor original research. We're not a blog, we're not here to promote any ideology.
- Wikipedia is not a general discussion forum, additions to talk pages should be about improving the article within the guidelines, not voicing one's opinion on the subject matter.
- Reliable sources typically include: articles from mainstream magazines or newspapers (particularly scholarly journals), or books by recognized authors (basically, books by respected publishers). Online versions of these are usually accepted, provided they're held to the same standards. User generated sources (like Wikipedia) are to be avoided. Self-published sources should be avoided except for information by and about the subject that is not self-serving (for example, citing a company's website to establish something like year of establishment).
- Articles are to be written from a neutral point of view. Wikipedia is not concerned with facts or opinions, it just summarizes reliable sources. Real scholarship actually does not say what understanding of the world is "true," but only with what there is evidence for.
- Assume other editors are here to help as much as is possible.
Basically, all we do is summarize professionally-published mainstream academic or journalistic sources.
Also, The Wikipedia Adventure was made to give users some practice in editing.