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 *User oversight, a well-written summary of why many editors produce content that increasingly approaches truth. Includes great quotes from Linus Torvalds, IBM, and John Stuart Mill.
+Category:Wikipedia guidelines
+Category:Wikipedia official policy
 Wikipedia:3O (third opinion)
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 Wikipedia:Arbitration committee
+Wikipedia:Avoid instruction creep
 Wikipedia:BB (be bold)
+Wikipedia:Citing sources
 Wikipedia:Conflict of interest
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 Wikipedia:Dispute resolution&nbsp;
-Wikipedia:Forking
+Wikipedia:Disrupt
+Wikipedia:Don't be a fanatic
+Wikipedia:Don't disrupt Wikipedia to prove a point
+Wikipedia:Edit war
+Wikipedia:Five Pillars
+Wikipedia:Forking
+Wikipedia:Game
 Wikipedia:Help desk
+Wikipedia:Ignore all rules
 Wikipedia:NPOV (neutral point of view)
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 Wikipedia:RfM (request for mediation)
+Wikipedia:The rules are principles
 Wikipedia:Single-purpose account
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 Wikipedia:Vandalism
+Wikipedia:Verifiability
 Wikipedia:Village pump
+Wikipedia:Wikilawyering
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 *The control known as flagged revisions is being rolled out as of 2007[update]. It aims to differentiate the version shown to most readers, from the draft "cutting edge" version being edited, and in the first instance to only show the latter when it has been checked for reasonableness. Flagged revisions are expected to provide a powerful way to prevent most vandalism or poor quality edits from being seen by readers, once it is fully operational.
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+=== There is no inner circle&nbsp;of editors<ref name="WiSt" />  ===
+....Another aspect is that because of the wide-open nature of the editorial process, there is no bottleneck of control through which the content can readily be controlled or massaged by any given individual or interest group. As well, all edits and actions, including past historical versions, are visible to all editors. The Wiki model itself mitigates extremely strongly against control of articles being manipulated by any one interest group, as there are no obvious applicable points of weakness or "approved circle", through which editorial decisions must pass. As a result, maintaining vandalism or a specific viewpoint is all but impossible in the long term, and Wikipedia is extremely resilient long-term against bias, censorship, or manipulation of its articles.
+=== Miscellaneous items ===
+*Editors who disagree are unable to write alternative articles or versions to express their differing viewpoints. Ultimately there is only one page upon which all must edit.<ref name="WiSt">from "The wiki structure" in Wikipedia:Editorial oversight and control at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editorial_oversight_and_control</ref>
+== Ahas ==
+#Wikipedia's policies are vetted and community-approved before becoming policies. So it seems there should be some way of requesting that an idea become policy, so that the community can be flagged and can vet the idea.
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