User talk:Drum4U

Here's wishing you a welcome to Wikipedia, Drum4U. Thank you for your contributions. Here are some useful links, which have information to help editors get the most out of Wikipedia:
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Again, welcome! Jytdog (talk) 19:33, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

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See here All information on Wikipedia needs a source. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 07:02, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
 * About this - everything needs what we call a "reliable source". Please see WP:RS for what that means. Everybody here understands that you saw that show.  What you are not understanding, is that nobody - nobody - gets to add content to Wikipedia based on "because I said so".  This place would be a slagheap if that were OK.  Really, please actually read the two complemetary policies:  WP:OR says you cannot add stuff to Wikipedia based on your own experience or thoughts; WP:VERIFY says that pretty much everything in Wikipedia must be cited to a reliable source. Jytdog (talk) 19:31, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

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here is a pocket summary of how this place works...

WP has policies and guidelines that govern content and behavior that help the community work together to create neutral content that communicates "accepted knowledge" -- that is the mission! The key policies/guidelines are:
 * WP:NOT (what WP is, and is not -- this is where you'll find that our mission is to work together to create articles that express "accepted knowledge" )
 * WP:OR - no original research is allowed here, instead
 * WP:VERIFY - everything has to be cited to a reliable source (so everything in WP comes down, to the sources you bring!)
 * WP:RS is the guideline defining what a "reliable source" is for general content; and
 * WP:MEDRS defines what reliable sourcing is for content about health
 * WP:NPOV and the content that gets written, needs to be "neutral" (as we define that here, which doesn't mean what you think -- it means that the language has to be neutral, and that topics in a given article are given appropriate "weight" (space and emphasis). An article about a drug that was 90% about side effects, would give what we call "undue weight" to the side effects.  We determine weight by seeing what the reliable sources say - we follow them in this too.  So again, you can see how everything comes down to references.
 * WP:CONSENSUS - disagreements about content are worked out, by talking to each other, to try to reach agreement. The conversation needs to take into account past and enduring consensus as well - and that is what the policies and guidelines listed above, themselves express - enduring consensus of the community about how we do things.

That is the very short story Jytdog (talk) 19:36, 6 March 2016 (UTC)