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Revision as of 19:44, 17 December 2005 by SlimVirgin (talk | contribs) (expanding a little; will continue)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff) | The following is a proposed Misplaced Pages policy, guideline, or process. The proposal may still be in development, under discussion, or in the process of gathering consensus for adoption. |
Biographies of living persons deserve a special sensitivity.
Misplaced Pages is not a newspaper
Misplaced Pages is an encyclopedia, not a newspaper, and Wikipedians are encyclopedists, not journalists. It is therefore inappropriate to adopt a publish-and-be-damned philosophy when writing about living people. We don't have a team of fact-checkers, reporters, copy editors, and lawyers to call upon, as newspapers do, and we're not writing in the public interest, where there may be a responsibility to expose wrong-doing.
The job of encyclopedists is simply to document, in a non-partisan manner, what credible third-party sources have said about the subject, and what the subject may have said about him or herself.
Relevant policies and guidelines
Relevant policies include:
- Misplaced Pages:No original research
- Misplaced Pages:Verifiability
- Misplaced Pages:Neutral point of view
- Misplaced Pages:Ownership of articles
- Misplaced Pages:Deletion of vanity articles
- Misplaced Pages:No personal attacks
- Misplaced Pages:Resolving disputes
- Misplaced Pages:Libel.
Relevant guidelines include:
A relevant proposed guideline is:
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