Wikipedia: Accuracy dispute
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If an article links to this page, it is because someone is concerned that the article may be significantly inaccurate. Such articles have the following warning at the top: "The factual accuracy of this article is disputed: see talk:ARTICLENAME".
The accuracy of an article may be a cause for concern if:
- It contains a lot of unlikely information, without providing references.
- It contains information which is particularly difficult to verify.
- In, for example, a long list, some errors have been found, suggesting that the list as a whole may need further checking.
- It has been written (or edited) by a user who is known to write inaccurately on the topic.
| Ways to fix a page | |
|---|---|
| Topic specific guidelines | WikiProject - For guidelines on the format of everything from Saints to Mammals |
| Pages needing content work | To-do list - Per page lists of jobs to-do. |
| Peer review - For pages that are close to Featured Article status | |
| Requests for expansion | |
| Pages needing attention - For pages which need serious attention from someone familiar with their subject | |
| Cleanup - For pages that don't fit above | |
| Inaccurate or POV pages | Accuracy dispute |
| NPOV dispute | |
| Multiple pages on the same subject | Duplicate articles - To request that two or more pages be merged together. |
| One page on multiple subjects | Disambiguation - when "articles about two or more different topics have the same natural title". |
| Articles to be split - one article that should broken up into more because multiple topics are covered. | |
| Dictionary definitions | Things to be moved to Wiktionary - To request a page be moved to Wiktionary. |
| Non-English pages | Pages needing translation into English - To request attention to non-English content in the English Wikipedia. |
| Deletion | Deletion policy - To start the process of deleting a page |
| Copyright problems | Copyright problems - For pages which may violate copyright |
A related collaboration mechanism is concerned with disputed statements.
If you come across an article with an accuracy warning, please do the following:
- Don't remove the warning simply because the material looks reasonable: please take the time to properly verify it.
- visit the talk page to see what the issues are
- correct it right away if you can. Please take the time to properly verify it. Please also add to the article any sources you used to verify the information in it: see cite your sources.
If you come across an article whose content seems or is inaccurate, please do the following:
- correct it right away if you can. Please take the time to properly verify it. Please also add to the article any sources you used to verify the information in it: see cite your sources.
- if the neutrality of the content is in question, please look at Wikipedia:NPOV dispute
- if only a few statements seem inaccurate:
- insert {{dubious}} after the relevant sentence or paragraph
- insert a "Disputed" section in the talk page to describe the problem
- request peer review to obtain correct information
- if there are more than 5 dubious statements, or if a dispute arises:
- insert a "Disputed" section in the talk page to describe the problem. This will help focus contributions from others.
- paste {{disputed}} in the beginning of the article to add a general warning. Check dispute resolution for ways to resolve it
- request peer review to obtain correct information
- if you find that the article remains unnoticed, you can draw more attention to it by listing it on Wikipedia:Pages needing attention.
- once you've found the correct information, edit the page to correct it, remove the warnings, and put something like the following in your edit summary:
- Verified article -- removed accuracy dispute
When you add an accuracy warning, you are invited to also help resolve accuracy disputes by checking the
- Category:Dubious - Listing of articles containing disputed statements
- recent list of disputed articles (or the latest (noisy) list and related Accuracy disputes).
Current disputes
2004 U.S. Election controversies and irregularities
This article seems to be a conclusion searching for evidence. Except for some very small stories in the mainstream press, this article takes data from unverifiable and dubious (partisan) sources, and attempts to expand the "controversy" into something much bigger than reality. Other editors have produced chartes and graphs based on this dubious data, which firmly goes against Wikipedia:No orignal research. All unverifiable and unreliable data or conclusions should be removed from this article and replaced with brief summaries of the concerns. -- Netoholic @ 17:55, 2004 Nov 11 (UTC) es:Wikipedia:Veracidad discutida ja:Wikipedia:正確さに疑問がある記事
