Fundamentals

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• What is Wikipedia’s biography of living persons policy?

  Wikipedia's Biographies of Living Persons (BLP) policy requires every contentious claim about a living person to be supported by high-quality reliable sources. Contentious material that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, even without consensus.

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• What happens when someone vandalizes your Wikipedia page?

  Vandalism on a watched Wikipedia page is reverted in layers that work on different time scales: anti-vandalism bots like ClueBot NG catch obvious patterns within seconds, and volunteer recent-changes patrollers revert what the bots miss within minutes. Monitoring tools such as Five Blocks' WikiAlerts add an alert layer that notifies a corporate communications team in real time when a watched page is edited.

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• What’s involved in getting a Wikipedia article published?

  Publishing a Wikipedia article runs through six steps: (1) sourcing analysis to test notability, (2) drafting in a user sandbox or Articles for Creation, (3) submission with the conflict-of-interest relationship disclosed, (4) review by an uninvolved community editor against notability and policy, (5) substantive response to that feedback, and (6) publication to mainspace once the reviewer accepts the draft.

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• What is Wikipedia’s neutral point of view policy?

  NPOV is Wikipedia's core editorial standard: articles must represent every significant viewpoint in proportion to its weight 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?

  Factual inaccuracies on a company's Wikipedia article are fixed by filing a Talk-page edit request that quotes the wrong text, proposes the corrected replacement, and cites reliable independent secondary sources. An uninvolved community editor reviews the request and implements the change.

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