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Wikipedia:User's Guide (WP:GUIDE) META-DATA: Due in part to recent developments in the news media, there are quite of few people that are confused as to what the goals of Wikipedia are, what Wikipedia claims within the General_disclaimer and how those two assertions can co-exist. The following is a User's Guide for those people. The primary audience of this document are the casual readers and new editors of Wikipedia. In this guide users will gain valuable knowledge as to what happens in the background of Wikipedia, primarily in the Wikipedia namespace. As most, if not all, new users view Wikipedia's Main namespace, it would be prudent to start there. ArticleseditThe primary purpose of Wikipedia is to write encyclopedia articles. These articles may be in-depth, through, and accurate; or they may be, at most, two sentences long, misspelled, or sadly enough, utter lies. Articles are written by university professors, doctors, historians, as well as, primary schoolers, nitwits, and trolls. It is the belief of the Wikipedian community that with each iteration an article comes closer to being neutral, precise, and complete. However, this project nowhere near a fantastic, utopian state. There are those who feel that an article leans to far in one direction, while other believe that the same article leans more so in the other direction. Also worth noting is that there are a certian minority who finds it fun to vandalize popular articles, create bogus articles and, in general, cause mischeif. In a perfect article, a casual reader would never know the discussions, |
