Help:Articles
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Point-of-view
PoliceWiki strives for a neutral point of view. To accomplish this, please keep in mind the following style notes:
- The use of "I", "we", or "you" in editing articles, with the exception of User pages, is discouraged. (Ex: I think this is the best Police song would be bad style on the wiki.)
- Sometimes multiple points of view should be represented, in a fair and equal way, so that no one point of view is given more weight or suggested as more the truth than another.
- Citations of verifiable souces should be provided whenever possible, especially on controversial topics. See Help:Citations for more information.
- Do not delete content from an article just because you disagree with its content, unless it can be factually proven as inaccurate. If you feel an article suffers from lack of neutrality, please discuss the matter on the article's discussion page, or provide more information to the text to balance the points of view represented.
- Articles which may suffer from lack of neutrality should be marked with the {{POV}} template.
For more information, please see PoliceWiki:Neutral point of view.
Articles about historical people
Unlike wikipedia, PoliceWiki encourages and invites individuals featured in this wiki for their contribution to Police history to contribute to and edit the pages about themselves. Also, if such an individual would like information about themselves removed from a page in the wiki, he or she should contact User:Sockii or User:DM-Kellie to discuss this as we will endeavor to make sure no one's privacy is compromised.
Articles about fans
Fans have been an integral part of Police history and as such we encourage members of Police fandom to create pages about themselves (using the Fan template) or to contribute to entries that may already name or list them for their involvement in certain activities, websites, fan clubs, etc. However, we also understand that privacy may be a concern and we will honor any request by a fan to have an entry about themselves deleted, and to remove mention of their names/pseudonyms from any PoliceWiki articles. Fans who wish this should do the following:
Procedure for requesting deletion of an article about yourself
Place the following text on the talk page (see the "talk" tab) for the article to be deleted:
- {{ADR}}
This will add a text box that looks like:
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The person featured in this article requests that wiki contributors not recreate the article. The user who made that request understands that PoliceWiki is a wiki and that anyone can recreate the article using a different title. They ask that you do not. Please respect their wishes. |
. After you have done that, type (or copy and paste) the following message:
- I have requested that this article be deleted from PoliceWiki. I ask that other contributors to the wiki please respect my wishes to not be included. I understand that this is a wiki and that other contributors may choose to create another article about me or reference me elsewhere in the wiki. Because of that, I understand it is my job to regularly check that no one has created a similar article against my wishes. --~~~~
Then, contact either User:Sockii or User:DM-Kellie directly (methods of contact are provided on the administrators' user pages) to indicate you are the individual requesting deletion of the article and/or mention of your name in other articles in the wiki.
The administrative team will handle your request in a timely fashion.
Rules for content on fan pages
We would also ask the following, if you are editing a page or entry about a fellow fan:
- Use only that individual's fannish name or pseudonym in an article, unless they actively use their real name openly in fandom.
- Do not post a photograph of another fan unless you have documented approval from them to do so.
- Never post personal information such as a phone number or mailing address for another fan.
- Do not use PoliceWiki to engage in personal wank or kerfluffles with other fans (see PoliceWiki:Neutral_point_of_view). While articles may make note of conflicts which have occurred in fandom as part of our fan history, any statements of obvious bias against an individual will be flagged and deleted by the administrators.
Use of templates
PoliceWiki encourages the use of the wiki's suggested Category:Article templates for building new pages. This helps ensure a consistency in how information is presented and makes the information easier to follow. However, it is understood that templates are general and may contain suggested sub-headers or sections which do not fit the topic of an article precisely, or may require more information. Please use best judgment and edit templates as necessary.
