User:Tmckenne/sandbox

The 5 Pillars of Wikipedia--Tmckenne (talk) 03:21, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

1. An Encyclopedia

Very similar to traditional encyclopedias.

2. Neural Point of View

Articles are written to document facts without opinions.

3. Free Content

Contains free content, where no editor owns an article.

4. Respect and Civility

Editors are required to treat each others with respect.

5. No Firm rules

Has the ability to change over time and adapt with the times.

Summary of characteristics of target article

- References - An article should have many references that contain no original research. In-line citation should also be in the article.

- Well Written - The article should be well written, spelling, grammer, and copyright rules should all be applied in the article.

- Focused - The article is focused in it's coverage of the topic.

- Neutral - The authors biased opinion is not included in the article. It remains unbiased and fair.

- Stable - The article is not being changed frequently.

- Images - Has images to help support and illustrate the article.

Tmckenne (talk) 02:37, 19 February 2014 (UTC)