User talk:JonQue

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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia!

You have made several edits to the article Cleon Skousen, some of which are problematic. I am not reverting the edits at this time, but other editors may.

In several edits, you deleted material and gave as your reason that the material deleted was "biased." However, that is not necessarily a valid reason to remove material in Wikipedia.

Wikipedia has a rule regarding Neutral Point of View. However, that rule relates to the way material is presented, not to the substance of the material itself. In several edits, you seemed to be simply removing material that was "negative" regarding the subject of the article, Cleon Skousen. Those edits were probably not proper to the extent that the removed materials had been sourced and had clearly indicated that it was the source that was making the critique of Skousen. Sources are are allowed to be biased, and Wikipedia articles are allowed to report the statements or opinions of biased sources. A bias in a source in and of itself does not violate the Wikipedia rule on Neutral Point of View. The fact that the result of including negative material in an article on a person may result in a negative impression of that person does not mean that such material is objectionable from the standpoint of Wikipedia's rules and guidelines, even if that source is clearly biased.

Instead, Neutral Point of View means that Wikipedia presents the material -- some of it clearly biased -- without taking a position as to whether Wikipedia agrees or disagrees with the biased material. Famspear (talk) 18:27, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

Here are some helpful links:

WP:POL (official policy)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_policies (list of policies)

"Neutral Point of View": WP:Neutral point of view (official policy)

WP:Neutral_point of view/FAQ (official policy)

WP:NPOV dispute (maintenance process, including the rule prohibiting drive-by tagging)

"Verifiability": WP:Verifiability (official policy)

"No Original Research": WP:No original research (official policy)

WP:No original research (primary, secondary and tertiary sources)

WP:Attribution (summary of Verifiability and No Original Research)

Yours, Famspear (talk) 18:33, 26 September 2012 (UTC)