User:Martin0001

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''I have nothing to say here that was not said before, And I lack any skill in the crafting of verse. Yet, though I lack even the thought to help others, I’ve composed this to familiarise my mind.

For, due to acquaintance with what is constructive, The force of my belief may increase, even just for a moment, And if others equal to myself in fortune happen to see them, Perhaps they might find them meaningful too.''

The Means
The Five pillars
 * Policy List
 * Talk Guidelines

Core content policies: NPOV, V, & NOR
 * Neutral point of view
 * FAQ
 * Tutorial
 * Verifiability
 * No original research
 * Noticeboard

Reliability
 * Noticeboard

Notability

Attribution

Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions

Words to avoid
 * Peacock terms
 * Weasel words

Biographies of living persons
 * Noticeboard

Consensus

The Danger
Wikilawyering
 * Gaming the system
 * Policy shopping
 * Canvassing
 * Forum shopping

Dispute resolution

Mala fides

Abuse of process

Ownership of articles (precious!)

Vandalism

Logic fallacies

The Solution
Ignore all rules
 * Wikipedia is not a bureaucracy

Apology

Use common sense
 * There is no common sense
 * Reasonability Rule

Civility
 * No angry mastodons
 * Drop the stick and back slowly away from the horse carcass
 * Don't edit war over the colour of templates
 * Don't be a dick

Assume good faith
 * Assume the assumption of good faith
 * Assume the assumption of assuming good faith
 * Assume that everyone's assuming good faith, assuming that you are assuming good faith
 * Assume the good-faith assumption of assuming the assumption of good faith was in good faith

What Wikipedia is not

Etiquette
 * No personal attacks
 * Don't accuse someone of a personal attack for accusing of a personal attack
 * Don't call the kettle black
 * Wikilove
 * Wikipeace

How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influence_People

"Neutrality requires views to be represented without bias. All editors and all sources have biases (in other words, all editors and all sources have a point of view) — what matters is how we combine them to create a neutral article. " This is the reason the Neutral Point of View policy exists. News providers have a POV, but we report what they report from a neutral perspective, not exclude them.

Editor Blueboar contributes: "Wikipedia does not equate Bias with Unreliability... thus, a reliable source can be biased (and conversely a biased source can be reliable). The important thing is that we should not be biased in our articles (see WP:NPOV). "

Verifiability: "The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth—that is, whether readers are able to check that material added to Wikipedia already has been published by a reliable source, not whether we think it is true. "

Regarding Fox News, Editor Protonk contributes: "Regardless of what you may think of Fox News, they have news crews, editors, fact checkers and so forth. "

Fox News serves as an excellent case study about how an allegedly bias news body is still considered a reliable source. For the most part, the primary reasons I’ve found regarding it’s exclusion relate more to disliking it than NPOV policy: "...while some editors may dislike certain kinds of information, that alone isn't enough by itself for something to be deleted. This may be coupled with (or replaced by) the unexplained claim that they feel that the information is ‘unencyclopedic’. "