Wikipedia:Assyrian-Syriac Wikipedia cooperation board/Contribute to This Project

Guidelines

• This Board serves as a notification board for issues that are of importance to specific articles. However, please don't use this notification board to invite people to engage in edit and revert-wars nor to engage them in looping discussions that primarily have nothing to do with the articles in question. It should be just a "shout-out" to get concerned Wikipedians to take a look with good-faith at certain articles to see what they can do to help them achieve a better encyclopedic-standing.

• Other areas that can fall within the grasp of this Board include certain "clean-ups" of certain articles to take off their inflammatory "edge", without betraying the essence of information contained in the articles.

• If you feel that there is a particular "pressure" going on in a particular article by certain POVs or "nationalistic" edits, please sound off here in the talk page to get users dedicated to cooperation and dialogue involved.

• Eventually, certain projects to get a number of Assyrian-Syriac articles to Featured Article can be envisaged as well.

• Please feel free to add and mention articles that need to be worked on and that might need the joint conribution of both sides. Use the talk page to see which pages might need the involvement of this Board.

• disputes regarding Wikipedia:Naming conventions should be informed by Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Syriac). The development of this guideline page should be discussed at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Syriac).

Principles

Every wikipedian subscribing to the board is expected to understand that facts in controversial disputes are usually a prior disputed in themselves. Sources are often perceived as being biased and the interpretation of events is expected to be largely different. We intend on presenting all the aspects and interpretations of facts in a neutral way, allowing readers decide for themselves. There are a number of principles that wikipedians are expected to subscribe to in order to join this effort.

Behavior

• The most important is probably Assume Good Faith. Every wikipedian who wants to participate on this board is expected to assume that other wikipedians (not necessarily of this board) are acting in good faith, until otherwise proven.
• No personal attacks. No ad hominem. We have had enough incivility and personal attacks by seemingly biased editors and we cannot tolerate personal attacks on this board. That is to say, every wikipedian who wants to participate is expected to remain civil and cool in disputes.

Editing

• The Neutral Point of View principle is the means, if not the end, of every wikipedian interested in being a part of this board.
• All claims, either in talks or in articles, have to be cited by independent, verifiable, and reliable sources in due weight. It seems that the lack of academic sources and the lack of judgement in the preminence that must be given to such sources, are the main reasons for the usual disputes.