User:JD April

When to Talk and When to Act

• How much should the community discuss an edit before making an edit?

• More discussion leads to less change. So talk should be reserved for cases where it's necessary, correct?
  • This seems to largely depend on whether the edit is controversial.
    • How is controversy defined? Literally anything can be disputed.

• How does this apply to changing policies and guidelines? Surely they have a different set of standards than regular articles. But then those standards require another set of standards for modification... It's turtles all the way down.

Wikipedia Ecosystem

Glossary

Policies and guidelines

Policies and guidelines

Core content policies

• Neutral point of view (NPOV)
  • FAQ
  • Neutral and proportionate point of view
  • Rewrite proposal draft
  • Challenges
    • Neutral point of view and conflicts of interest
    • Ideological bias on Wikipedia
    • Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train, False balance (and its opposite extreme: overzealous exclusion), Wikipedia:Tendentious editing
• Verifiability
  • Challenges: Biased criteria for topics that rely on news media
• No original research
  • Isn't this just a clarification of verifiability?
  • Challenges: None, really. But a lot of content is marked as citation needed instead of removed. I think unsourced claims should be immediately removed. They don't belong in an encyclopedia at all and should be moved to the discussion if they're worth discussing.

Editing

• Editing policy
• Ten simple rules for editing
• Help:Wikitext (markdown, formatting, etc.)

Controversies, Disputes, etc.

• Wikipedia:Editing controversial subjects
• Disputes on Wikipedia
• Arbitration Committee
  • Arbitration Committee (Wikipedia)
• Contentious topics

Goals

Addressing Wikipedia's Political Bias

Log

2024-12-17

Wikipedia is now making me solve captchas with every edit. This started a few moments ago.

Interestingly, this is happening only when I edit /Addressing Wikipedia's Political Bias and not when I edit this page. Specifically, I was adding sources to the evidence section.

Is the page flagged? For what?

Explanation generously given here: User talk:JD April#Regarding captchas

As much as I appreciate the concern and help, I'm reminded of this Reddit post that I saw earlier today.

See the Hawthorne effect.