Mikehenke

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Hello, Mikehenke! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions you can ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you are already excited about Wikipedia, you might want to consider being "adopted" by a more experienced editor or joining a WikiProject to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field when making edits to pages. Happy editing! Alexbrn (talk) 17:03, 5 January 2017 (UTC) Getting Started Contributing to Wikipedia The five pillars of Wikipedia • Tutorial • Your first article How to: edit a page • upload an image Getting Help Frequently Asked Questions New contributors' help page Where to: ask questions • make requests Tip of the day Request administrator attention Policies and Guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Simplified Manual of Style • Three-revert rule Copyrights • Non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism • Sock puppetry Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The Community Community Portal • Adopt-a-user program Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • Resolving disputes Build consensus • Village pump IRC channels • Mailing lists Discover what's going on in the Wikimedia community (The Signpost) Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Maintenance • Peer review • Requested articles Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Categories • Disambiguity • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

A tip on how to "sign" your Talk page comments

Hello Mikehenke, I've appreciated your thoughtful observations about phrasing, grammar, and punctuation on the article Rolfing. Don't get discouraged if some of your edits get reverted; keep floating out your ideas for how to make articles better. Just one suggestion, when you write a note on a Talk page, at the end, click the little button that has a picture of a pen writing some letters (it's above the box you are writing in, usually the fourth file from the left). This will automatically add your name and the date. Or you can type four ~ in a row. Sincerely, --Karinpower (talk) 04:32, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

About WP:NPOV

On my old user page you wrote: "It seems to have a anti bias and not neutral." You fail to understand our NPOV policy. It does not refer to article neutrality, but to editorial neutrality. Editors must remain neutral in their presentation of what is found in reliable sources.

Content in an article must reflect the biases found in the reliable sources it uses. We don't whitewash articles of anything non-neutral or neuter them. We don't write favorable sales brochures. Some subjects are generally viewed by mainstream sources as fringe or other negative things. The article will reflect that bias. It will read more negative than positive, and that will naturally disturb those who view the subject positively.

The only way to change that is to get the subject to become legitimate so the prevailing views in reliable sources are positive about the subject. That can take decades AFTER the change has been made. Chiropractic has still not succeeded because the "profession" is half-hearted in fighting unscientific beliefs and unethical practices, all of which are discussed in numerous reliable sources.

I have written a lot about this in this essay: NPOV means neutral editors, not neutral content. -- BullRangifer (talk) 04:27, 11 January 2017 (UTC)