Changes: Wowpedia:Neutrality policy

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This page is an official policy on Wowpedia.

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Feel free to propose any changes to this policy, but please make sure that changes you make follow the official process and reflect consensus on the discussion page before you put them into practice. Any big changes need to be Adopted or Decreed to be enforced as policy.
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Email is john(price-per-unit)freeq(end-of-sentence)com

Copyediting random Wikipedia articles has lately joined coffee and cigarettes in my morning ritual to get my brain in gear. Evenings, I sometimes work on new articles, expanding stubs, or "translation."

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Copyediting's my main thing (my mom was an English teacher, and it shows). Currently I'm sporadically working on the "1990's" thing, and intend to work my way back through the years. (For what it's worth on "1990's," we'll leave this one, because it's correct, and also this one, because if the 'venerable' New York Times can't even get it right, they deserve to be publicly pilloried.)

Why neutral point of view ?

Writing articles at WoWWiki with a neutral point of view, helps remove conflicts that may occur from conflicting opinions stated in articles. Additionally maintaining neutrality can help prevent personal attacks.

See also: Wikipedia's Neutral point of view policy

How to write with Neutral point of view

To quote Wikipedia; "Neutral point of view is a point of view that is neutral - that is neither sympathetic nor in opposition to its subject." Any subject where there is multiple significant points of view, should be written so that each of these is impartially stated, with equal merit to the other, the article should not imply that one opinion is the correct one.

Additionally when writing about other people or yourself, try to refrain from personal attacks or self promotion, articles should be written in an encyclopedic style.

Dealing with Biased Articles

Upon coming across an article containing non-neutral points of view editing the article to replace contentious sections, writing in a neutral style would be appropriate, if you do not wish to edit the article, then add the Template:Tlink template to the first line of the article, then comment in the article's Talk: page, describing any Neutrality issues in the article.

Conversely, if you see an article with Template:Tlink and wish to edit the article to correct the NPOV issues, do so, leaving the original issues in the Talk: page.

See also: The text removal guidelines

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+Email is john(price-per-unit)freeq(end-of-sentence)com
+Copyediting random Wikipedia articles has lately joined coffee and cigarettes in my morning ritual to get my brain in gear.  Evenings, I sometimes work on new articles, expanding stubs, or "translation."
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+Copyediting's my main thing (my mom was an English teacher, and it shows).  Currently I'm sporadically working on the "1990's" thing, and intend to work my way back through the years.  (For what it's worth on "1990's," we'll leave [[Minority_Report_(movie)|this one]], because it's correct, and also [[September_11%2C_2001_Terrorist_Attack/New_York_Times_articles%2C_October_16-|this one]], because if the 'venerable' [[New York Times]] can't even get it right, they deserve to be publicly pilloried.)