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Wikipedia:Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point

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Examples

  • If someone nominates one of your favorite articles for deletion...
    • do explain why the subject meets inclusion criteria, providing reliable sources to support your assertion.
    • do not nominate an article for deletion that you don't really believe ought to be deleted, giving the same rationale.
  • If you have nominated an article for deletion, and others favour keeping it...
    • do participate in the discussion, basing your argument on policies and guidelines.
    • do not create an article on what you consider to be a similarly unsuitable topic, with hopes that others will make the same arguments for deletion.
  • If someone deletes from an article information which they call "unimportant" or "irrelevant", which you consider to in fact be important to the subject...
    • do explain on the article's talk page why you feel the material merits inclusion.
    • do not delete most of the remaining article as "unimportant".
  • If you think someone unfairly removed a reference to a self-published source...
    • do explain why the use of the source in question was appropriate in that instance, or find a better source for the information.
    • do not summarily remove all references to sources which appear to be self-published.
  • If you think someone unfairly removed "unsourced" content...
    • do find a source for it, make the referencing clear if it was already present, or explain why the content in question shouldn't require a cited source.
    • do not summarily remove from the page everything which appears to be unsourced.
  • If you feel that it is too easy to add misinformation to Wikipedia...
  • If you feel that a particular source does not meet Wikipedia standards...
    • do express your concerns on the talk pages of articles which cite it, or at the reliable sources noticeboard.
    • do not add even more references to the source, with hopes of provoking opposition to its use.
  • If you think that the Arbitration Committee has conducted inappropriate CheckUsers...
    • do express your concerns on one of the CheckUser policy talk pages or at a relevant Arbcom page.
    • do not suggest another frivolous or inappropriate CheckUser.

See also

This page is referenced in the Wikipedia Glossary.
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