Wikipedia:Update/1/Content policy changes during August 2008


 * WP:Biographies of living persons
 * Added subsection: WP:BLP
 * WP:Naming conventions
 * Nutshell was shortened.
 * WP:Neutral point of view
 * WP:NPOV got a substantial rewrite.
 * In WP:NPOV, change to "give precedence to those sources that are most reliable and verifiable."
 * Deleted: "Blinded By Science: How 'Balanced' Coverage Lets the Scientific Fringe Hijack Reality — Chris Mooney, Columbia Journalism Review. A valuable warning to Wikipedians about how some methods used to balance coverage can lead to biased, inaccurate and misleading reporting."
 * WP:No original research
 * New subsection: WP:NOR
 * WP:NOR was moved and became a level-2 heading, with a few additions: "topic or event", videos, maps and patents.
 * WP:Non-free content criteria
 * Added "or publicly displayed" to "Non-free content must have been published outside Wikipedia."
 * Removed "and its omission would be detrimental to that understanding" from point #8
 * WP:Verifiability
 * Added pointer to Reliable sources/Noticeboard
 * See Update/Content policy changes during October 2008 for changes that were reverted in October
 * Added to WP:Verifiability: "Because of this, they can be treated similarly to the way self-published sources are treated."
 * Added to WP:Verifiability: "For example, a reliable self-published source on a given subject is likely to have been cited on that subject as authoritative by a reliable source."
 * In WP:Verifiability, changed "self-published sources" to "most self-published sources"
 * In WP:Verifiability, added False Authority On the importance of looking for many sources.
 * WP:What Wikipedia is not
 * Regarding wiki software, added link to Alternative outlets
 * In See also, added Wikipedia is an encyclopedia