Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons: Difference between revisions

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* [[Wikipedia:Neutral point of view|Neutral point of view]] (NPOV)

* [[Wikipedia:Verifiability|Verifiability]] (V)

* [[Wikipedia:No original research|No original research]] (NOR)

 

Wikipedia must get the article {{em|right}}. Be very firm about the use of high-quality [[Wikipedia:Verifiability#Reliable sources|sources]]. All quotations and any material {{strong|challenged or likely to be challenged}} must be supported by an [[Wikipedia:Citing sources#Inline citations|inline citation]] to a reliable, published source. Contentious material about living persons (or, in some cases, recently deceased) that is unsourced or poorly sourced—whether the material is negative, positive, neutral, or just questionable—must be {{strong|removed immediately and without waiting for discussion}}.<ref name="ZeroInformation">{{Cite mailing list|url=https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2006-May/046440.html|title=Zero information is preferred to misleading or false information|date=16 May 2006|access-date=22 June 2018|mailing-list=[[WP:WikiEN-l|WikiEN-l]]|publisher=[[Wikimedia Foundation]]|last=Wales|first=Jimmy|author-link=Jimmy Wales|quote=It should be removed, aggressively, unless it can be sourced. This is true of all information, but it is particularly true of negative information about living persons.|archive-url=https://archive.is/20180622205129/https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2006-May/046440.html|archive-date=22 June 2018}}{{pb}}{{Cite mailing list|url=https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2006-May/046732.html|title=Zero information is preferred to misleading or false information|date=19 May 2006|access-date=22 June 2018|mailing-list=WikiEN-l|publisher=Wikimedia Foundation|last=Wales|first=Jimmy|quote=If you see an unsourced statement that would be libel if false, and it makes you feel suspicious enough to want to tag it as {{tlf|citation needed}}, please do not do that! Please just remove the statement and ask a question on the talk page.|archive-url=https://archive.is/20180622205914/https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2006-May/046732.html|archive-date=22 June 2018}}{{pb}}{{Cite web|url=https://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Archives/Jimbo_Keynote|title=Archives/Jimbo Keynote|last=Wales|first=Jimmy|date=4 August 2006|department=[[Wikimania 2006]]|publisher=Wikimedia Foundation|archive-url=https://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Archives/Jimbo_Keynote&oldid=9800|archive-date=8 August 2006|url-status=live|access-date=22 June 2018|quote=One of the social things that I think we can do is [[WP:BIO]]&nbsp;[...] I think social policies have evolved in recent years, I mean the recent months, to actually handle this problem a lot better. A lot of the admins and experienced editors are taking a really strong stand against unsourced claims, which is always a typical example of the problem.&nbsp;[...] And the few people who are still sort of in the old days, saying, 'Well, you know, it's a wiki, why don't we just... ', yeah, they're sort of falling by the wayside, because lots of people are saying actually, we have a really serious responsibility to get things right.}}</ref> Users who persistently or egregiously violate this policy may be [[Wikipedia:Blocking policy|blocked from editing]].