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Since this article is about an event that (1) has been reported on extensively by most media outlets, (2) elicits strong emotions in many people, and (3) is (like most of English Wikipedia) likely being read and edited mainly by people who are getting/have gotten most of their information from Western news outlets (which are largely sympathetic to the U.S. coalition's goals in Syria), the opposing views of the other major actors (i.e. Russia and Syria) and their media outlets are likely to be omitted, ignored, and/or play a less prominent role in the resulting article. So I'd like to remind editors of this article of some of Wikipedia's policies, in particular of WP:NPOV policy:
WP:NPOV - " neutral point of view (NPOV), which means representing fairly, proportionately, and, as far as possible, without editorial bias, all of the significant views that have been published by reliable sources on a topic."
WP:WEIGHT - "Neutrality requires that each article or other page in the mainspace fairly represent all significant viewpoints that have been published by
reliable sources, in proportion to the prominence of each viewpoint in the published, reliable sources."
WP:SOURCES - Articles should rely on reliable, third-party published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy.
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Since this article is about an event that (1) has been reported on extensively by most media outlets, (2) elicits strong emotions in many people, and (3) is (like most of English Wikipedia) likely being read and edited mainly by people who are getting/have gotten most of their information from Western news outlets (which are largely sympathetic to the U.S. coalition's goals in Syria), the opposing views of the other major actors (i.e. Russia and Syria) and their media outlets are likely to be omitted, ignored, and/or play a less prominent role in the resulting article. So I'd like to remind editors of this article of some of Wikipedia's policies, in particular of WP:NPOV policy:
WP:NPOV - " neutral point of view (NPOV), which means representing fairly, proportionately, and, as far as possible, without editorial bias, all of the significant views that have been published by reliable sources on a topic."
WP:WEIGHT - "Neutrality requires that each article or other page in the mainspace fairly represent all significant viewpoints that have been published by
reliable sources, in proportion to the prominence of each viewpoint in the published, reliable sources."
WP:SOURCES - Articles should rely on reliable, third-party published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy.