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The Wiki must get the article ''right''. Be very firm about the use of high-quality sources. All quotations and any material '''challenged or likely to be challenged''' must be supported by an inline citation to a reliable, published source. Contentious material about living persons (or, in some cases, recently deceased) that is unsourced or poorly sourced—whether the material is negative, positive, neutral, or just questionable—must be '''removed immediately and without waiting for discussion'''. Users who persistently or egregiously violate this policy may be blocked from editing. | The Wiki must get the article ''right''. Be very firm about the use of high-quality sources. All quotations and any material '''challenged or likely to be challenged''' must be supported by an inline citation to a reliable, published source. Contentious material about living persons (or, in some cases, recently deceased) that is unsourced or poorly sourced—whether the material is negative, positive, neutral, or just questionable—must be '''removed immediately and without waiting for discussion'''. Users who persistently or egregiously violate this policy may be blocked from editing. | ||
Person Articles ("PAs") must be written conservatively and with regard for the subject's privacy. This Wiki is not a tabloid: it is not | Person Articles ("PAs") must be written conservatively and with regard for the subject's privacy. This Wiki is not a tabloid: it is not the Consumer Rights Wiki's job to be sensationalist, or to be the primary vehicle for the spread of titillating claims about people's lives; the possibility of harm to living subjects must always be considered when exercising editorial judgment. This policy applies to any living person mentioned in a PA, whether or not that person is the subject of the article, and to material about living persons in other articles and on other pages, including talk pages. The burden of evidence rests with the editor who adds or restores the material. | ||
==Writing style== | ==Writing style== | ||
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Images of living persons should not be used out of context to present a person in a false or disparaging light. This is particularly important for police booking photographs (mugshots), or situations where the subject did not expect to be photographed. Because a police booking photograph can imply that the person depicted was charged with or convicted of a specific crime, a top-quality reliable source with a widely acknowledged reputation for fact-checking and accuracy that links the photograph to the specific incident or crime in question must be cited. | Images of living persons should not be used out of context to present a person in a false or disparaging light. This is particularly important for police booking photographs (mugshots), or situations where the subject did not expect to be photographed. Because a police booking photograph can imply that the person depicted was charged with or convicted of a specific crime, a top-quality reliable source with a widely acknowledged reputation for fact-checking and accuracy that links the photograph to the specific incident or crime in question must be cited. | ||
There is clear consensus against using AI-generated images to depict subjects of PAs. Marginal cases (such as major AI enhancement or where an AI-generated image of a living person is itself notable) are subject to case-by-case consensus. Images of living persons that have been created by Wiki users or others may be used only if they have been released under a copyright licence that is compatible with [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Image_use_policy|Wikipedia's Image use policy]]. | There is clear consensus against using AI-generated images to depict subjects of PAs. Marginal cases (such as major AI enhancement or where an AI-generated image of a living person is itself notable) are subject to case-by-case consensus. Images of living persons that have been created by Wiki users or others may be used only if they have been released under a copyright licence that is compatible with [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Image_use_policy|Wikipedia's Image use policy]] (Pending the creation of our own image use policy, we will adopt Wikipedia's). | ||
===Recently dead or probably dead=== | ===Recently dead or probably dead=== | ||
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Subjects sometimes become involved in editing material about themselves, either directly or through a representative. Leniency should be shown to PA subjects who try to fix what they see as errors or unfair material. '''Editors should make every effort to act with kindness toward the subjects of biographical material when the subjects arrive to express concern.''' | Subjects sometimes become involved in editing material about themselves, either directly or through a representative. Leniency should be shown to PA subjects who try to fix what they see as errors or unfair material. '''Editors should make every effort to act with kindness toward the subjects of biographical material when the subjects arrive to express concern.''' | ||
Although | Although the Consumer Rights Wiki discourages people from writing about themselves, removal of unsourced or poorly sourced material is acceptable. When a logged-out editor blanks all or part of a PA, this might be the subject attempting to remove problematic material. Edits like these by subjects should not be treated as vandalism; instead, the subject should be invited to explain their concerns. The Wikipedia Arbitration Committee established the following principle in December 2005, and we accept it for this Wiki:<blockquote>Wiki: Please do not bite the newcomers, a guideline, advises Wikipedia users to consider the obvious fact that new users of the Wiki will do things wrong from time to time. For those who either have or might have an article about themselves, there is a temptation—especially if apparently wrong or strongly negative information is included in such an article—to become involved in questions regarding their own article. This can open the door to rather immature behavior and loss of dignity for the new user. It is a violation of don't bite the newbies to strongly criticize users who fall into this trap, rather than see this phenomenon as a new editor mistake.</blockquote> | ||
===Dealing with articles about yourself=== | ===Dealing with articles about yourself=== | ||
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===Legal issues=== | ===Legal issues=== | ||
Subjects who have legal or other serious concerns about material they find about themselves on a Wiki page, whether in a PA or elsewhere, may contact | Subjects who have legal or other serious concerns about material they find about themselves on a Wiki page, whether in a PA or elsewhere, may contact [email protected]. Please e-mail [email protected] with a link to the article and details of the problem. It is usually better to ask for help rather than trying to change the material yourself. | ||
As noted above, individuals involved in a significant legal or other off-wiki dispute with the subject of a biographical article are strongly discouraged from editing that article. | As noted above, individuals involved in a significant legal or other off-wiki dispute with the subject of a biographical article are strongly discouraged from editing that article. | ||
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===Contentious topics=== | ===Contentious topics=== | ||
"All living or recently deceased subjects of biographical content on | "All living or recently deceased subjects of biographical content on Consumer Rights Wiki articles" have been designated as a contentious topic. In this area, the Wiki's norms and policies are more strictly enforced and administrators have additional authority to reduce disruption to the project. | ||
===Deletion=== | ===Deletion=== | ||