Fundamentals
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What is Wikipedia’s biography of living persons policy?
BLP requires high-quality sourcing, neutral framing, and prompt removal of contentious unsourced material about living people. It is one of Wikipedia's strongest defenses against unsourced negative claims.
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What happens when someone vandalizes your Wikipedia page?
Vandalism is reverted by editors, watchlist subscribers, anti-vandalism bots, and tools like WikiAlerts that flag edits in real time with one-click revert.
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What’s involved in getting a Wikipedia article published?
The publishing path is: sourcing analysis, draft creation in sandbox or Articles for Creation, submission with disclosed COI, community editor review, response to feedback, and publication.
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What is Wikipedia’s neutral point of view policy?
NPOV is Wikipedia's core editorial standard. Articles must represent significant viewpoints in proportion to their representation in reliable sources, without editorial advocacy or undue weight to fringe positions.
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Our founder is mentioned on our company Wikipedia page but the content is inaccurate. How does that get fixed?
Inaccuracies on a company page are fixed through Talk-page edit requests that cite reliable secondary sources for the corrected facts. Community editors review and implement the change.
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