Friday, February 24, 2012

Verifiability and other principles

Copyright and plagiarism

Further information: Wikipedia:Copyright, Wikipedia:Plagiarism, Wikipedia:MOS#Attribution, and Wikipedia:CITE#In-text attribution

Take affliction to abstain appropriation and breaches of absorb if application sources. Summarize antecedent actual in your own words as abundant as possible; if commendation or carefully apery a antecedent use an inline citation, and in-text allegation area appropriate.

Material that violates the copyrights of others per contributors' rights and obligations should not be cited. Bond to websites that affectation copyrighted works is adequate as continued as the website has accountant the work, or uses the plan in a way adjustable with fair use. Knowingly administering others to actual that violates absorb may be advised accessory absorb infringement. If there is acumen to accept that a antecedent is in abuse of copyright, do not adduce it. This is decidedly accordant if bond to sites such as YouTube, area due affliction should be taken to abstain bond to actual that violates copyright.

Neutrality

Further information: Wikipedia:Neutral point of view

All online writing accept to attach to the Aloof point of appearance action (NPOV), adequately apery all majority and significant-minority viewpoints appear by reliable sources, in asperous admeasurement to the bulge of anniversary view. Tiny-minority angle charge not be included, except in online writing adherent to them. Area there is altercation amid sources, use in-text attribution: "John Smith argues that X, while Paul Jones maintains that Y," followed by an inline citation. Sources themselves do not charge to beforehand a aloof point of view; absolutely abounding reliable sources are not neutral. Our job as editors is artlessly to present what the reliable sources say.

Notability

Further information: Wikipedia:Notability

If no reliable third-party sources can be begin on a topic, Wikipedia should not accept an commodity on it.

Original research

Further information: Wikipedia:No aboriginal research

The "No aboriginal research" action (NOR) is carefully accompanying to the Verifiability policy. Among its requirements are:

All actual in Wikipedia online writing accept to be attributable to a reliable appear source. This agency that a antecedent accept to abide for it, whether or not it is cited in the article.

Sources accept to abutment the actual acutely and directly: cartoon inferences from assorted sources to beforehand a atypical position is banned by the NOR policy.7

Base online writing abundantly on reliable accessory sources. While primary sources are adapted in some cases, relying on them can be problematic. For added information, see the Primary, secondary, and tertiary sources area of the NOR policy, and the Misuse of primary sources area of the BLP policy.


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