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Line 28: *'''Copying''' things. '''Do not violate copyrights.''' To be safe, do not copy more than a couple of sentences of text from anywhere, and document any references you do use. You can copy material that you are ''sure'' is in the public domain, but even for public domain material you should still document your source. We all are here because of your interest in BattleTech; the best way to keep the line healthy and fresh is to encourage investment in the canon materials. Reprinting them here does the exact opposite. *'''Copying''' things. '''Do not violate copyrights.''' To be safe, do not copy more than a couple of sentences of text from anywhere, and document any references you do use. You can copy material that you are ''sure'' is in the public domain, but even for public domain material you should still document your source. We all are here because of your interest in BattleTech; the best way to keep the line healthy and fresh is to encourage investment in the canon materials. Reprinting them here does the exact opposite. *'''Good research''' and '''citing your sources'''. Articles written out of thin air are better than nothing, but they are hard to verify, which is an important part of building a trusted reference work. Please research with the best sources available to you and cite them properly. Doing this, along with not copying large amounts of the text, will help avoid any possibility of plagiarism. *'''Good research''' and '''citing your sources'''. Articles written out of thin air are better than nothing, but they are hard to verify, which is an important part of building a trusted reference work. Please research with the best sources available to you and cite them properly. Doing this, along with not copying large amounts of the text, will help avoid any possibility of plagiarism. − *'''Advocacy''' and '''controversial material.''' Please do not write articles that advocate one particular viewpoint on factions, politics, religion, BattleTech line or anything else. Understand what we mean by a [[Policy:Neutral point of view|neutral point of view]] before tackling this sort of topic. + *'''Advocacy''' and '''controversial material.''' Please do not write articles that advocate one particular viewpoint on factions, politics, religion, BattleTech line or anything else. Understand what we mean by a [[BattleTechWiki:Neutral point of view|neutral point of view]] before tackling this sort of topic. *'''Redundant articles.''' BattleTechWiki already has a lot of articles. Before creating an article, try to make sure there isn't already an article, perhaps under a slightly different name. If an article on your topic '''is''' there, but you think people are likely to look for it under some different name or spelling, [[Help:Commonly used templates|learn how to add a redirect]] with that name; adding needed redirects is a good way to help BattleTechWiki. Also, remember to check the article's deletion log in order to avoid creating an article that has already been deleted. *'''Redundant articles.''' BattleTechWiki already has a lot of articles. Before creating an article, try to make sure there isn't already an article, perhaps under a slightly different name. If an article on your topic '''is''' there, but you think people are likely to look for it under some different name or spelling, [[Help:Commonly used templates|learn how to add a redirect]] with that name; adding needed redirects is a good way to help BattleTechWiki. Also, remember to check the article's deletion log in order to avoid creating an article that has already been deleted. *'''Extremely short articles''' that are just definitions. Try to write a good short paragraph that says ''something'' about the subject. We welcome ''good'' short articles, called "stubs", that can serve as launching pads from which others can take off. If you don't have enough material to write a good stub, you probably should not create the article. At the end of a stub, you should include a "stub template" like this: '''{{tl|stub}}'''. It helps track articles that need expansion. Definitions belong in the [[Dictionary]]. *'''Extremely short articles''' that are just definitions. Try to write a good short paragraph that says ''something'' about the subject. We welcome ''good'' short articles, called "stubs", that can serve as launching pads from which others can take off. If you don't have enough material to write a good stub, you probably should not create the article. At the end of a stub, you should include a "stub template" like this: '''{{tl|stub}}'''. It helps track articles that need expansion. Definitions belong in the [[Dictionary]].
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*'''Copying''' things. '''Do not violate copyrights.''' To be safe, do not copy more than a couple of sentences of text from anywhere, and document any references you do use. You can copy material that you are ''sure'' is in the public domain, but even for public domain material you should still document your source. We all are here because of your interest in BattleTech; the best way to keep the line healthy and fresh is to encourage investment in the canon materials. Reprinting them here does the exact opposite. | *'''Copying''' things. '''Do not violate copyrights.''' To be safe, do not copy more than a couple of sentences of text from anywhere, and document any references you do use. You can copy material that you are ''sure'' is in the public domain, but even for public domain material you should still document your source. We all are here because of your interest in BattleTech; the best way to keep the line healthy and fresh is to encourage investment in the canon materials. Reprinting them here does the exact opposite. | ||
*'''Good research''' and '''citing your sources'''. Articles written out of thin air are better than nothing, but they are hard to verify, which is an important part of building a trusted reference work. Please research with the best sources available to you and cite them properly. Doing this, along with not copying large amounts of the text, will help avoid any possibility of plagiarism. | *'''Good research''' and '''citing your sources'''. Articles written out of thin air are better than nothing, but they are hard to verify, which is an important part of building a trusted reference work. Please research with the best sources available to you and cite them properly. Doing this, along with not copying large amounts of the text, will help avoid any possibility of plagiarism. | ||
| − | *'''Advocacy''' and '''controversial material.''' Please do not write articles that advocate one particular viewpoint on factions, politics, religion, BattleTech line or anything else. Understand what we mean by a [[ | + | *'''Advocacy''' and '''controversial material.''' Please do not write articles that advocate one particular viewpoint on factions, politics, religion, BattleTech line or anything else. Understand what we mean by a [[BattleTechWiki:Neutral point of view|neutral point of view]] before tackling this sort of topic. |
*'''Redundant articles.''' BattleTechWiki already has a lot of articles. Before creating an article, try to make sure there isn't already an article, perhaps under a slightly different name. If an article on your topic '''is''' there, but you think people are likely to look for it under some different name or spelling, [[Help:Commonly used templates|learn how to add a redirect]] with that name; adding needed redirects is a good way to help BattleTechWiki. Also, remember to check the article's deletion log in order to avoid creating an article that has already been deleted. | *'''Redundant articles.''' BattleTechWiki already has a lot of articles. Before creating an article, try to make sure there isn't already an article, perhaps under a slightly different name. If an article on your topic '''is''' there, but you think people are likely to look for it under some different name or spelling, [[Help:Commonly used templates|learn how to add a redirect]] with that name; adding needed redirects is a good way to help BattleTechWiki. Also, remember to check the article's deletion log in order to avoid creating an article that has already been deleted. | ||
*'''Extremely short articles''' that are just definitions. Try to write a good short paragraph that says ''something'' about the subject. We welcome ''good'' short articles, called "stubs", that can serve as launching pads from which others can take off. If you don't have enough material to write a good stub, you probably should not create the article. At the end of a stub, you should include a "stub template" like this: '''{{tl|stub}}'''. It helps track articles that need expansion. Definitions belong in the [[Dictionary]]. | *'''Extremely short articles''' that are just definitions. Try to write a good short paragraph that says ''something'' about the subject. We welcome ''good'' short articles, called "stubs", that can serve as launching pads from which others can take off. If you don't have enough material to write a good stub, you probably should not create the article. At the end of a stub, you should include a "stub template" like this: '''{{tl|stub}}'''. It helps track articles that need expansion. Definitions belong in the [[Dictionary]]. | ||