What is the basic logic behind Wikipedia policy, particularly the neutral point of view policy?
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Wiki strives to be reliable encyclopedia. This goal leads to all the other aspects of our content policy:
When writing an article, Wikipedia editors should:
To accurately represent our sources, editors have to do two things:
In order to prove both to readers and other editors that we have been doing our job, all information added to Wikipedia should state where it came from. If you do not tell readers and other editors where you got the information that you put in Wikipedia, it may eventually be removed unless it is common knowledge.
Thus the goal of being a reliable encyclopedia naturally leads us to embrace our policies on reliable sources (RS), no original research (NOR), and the neutral point of view (NPOV), and to cite our sources.
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