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Welcome to WikiProject Common Sense. This project is a collaboration of Wikipedians dedicated to adding sound reasoning, balanced perspectives, and above all common sense into articles and talk pages across the encyclopedia. If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list below.
Although Wikipedia is designed to be a consensus systems, many discussions about article content end up as polemic disputes, with editors locked in endless arguments over minor (even trivial) points. There are different reasons for this: sometimes editors are trying to maintain a certain representation of a topic (e.g., to protect or defame its reputation), sometimes they are reacting emotionally to what they perceive as insulting or stupid edits, sometimes they are defending the status quo or enforcing rules with mindless determination, sometimes... Usually they have good reasons for these polemics, invariably they have good intentions, and as a rule perspectives on all sides would be valuable contributions to Wikipedia if the editors involved could stop fighting about it and get back to editing the article.
What these discussions need is a good dose of common sense. That's the goal of this project.
This project starts from the idea that the Wikipedia as an activity should be closest to journalism, not an exercise in science or philosophy. With that in mind, it advocates the ideal that the only thing that matters on wikipedia is producing fair, thoughtful, balanced articles about the topic in question:
To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Common Sense:
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Please feel free to add yourself to the project here.
Please feel free to list your new Common Sense-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,000 characters, don't have any dispute templates on them, and cite their sources, should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Wikipedia Main Page.
This
WikiProject is defunct. Consider looking for related projects for help or ask at the Teahouse. If you feel this project may be worth reviving,
please discuss with related projects first. Feel free to change this tag if the parameters were changed in error.
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Welcome to WikiProject Common Sense. This project is a collaboration of Wikipedians dedicated to adding sound reasoning, balanced perspectives, and above all common sense into articles and talk pages across the encyclopedia. If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list below.
Although Wikipedia is designed to be a consensus systems, many discussions about article content end up as polemic disputes, with editors locked in endless arguments over minor (even trivial) points. There are different reasons for this: sometimes editors are trying to maintain a certain representation of a topic (e.g., to protect or defame its reputation), sometimes they are reacting emotionally to what they perceive as insulting or stupid edits, sometimes they are defending the status quo or enforcing rules with mindless determination, sometimes... Usually they have good reasons for these polemics, invariably they have good intentions, and as a rule perspectives on all sides would be valuable contributions to Wikipedia if the editors involved could stop fighting about it and get back to editing the article.
What these discussions need is a good dose of common sense. That's the goal of this project.
This project starts from the idea that the Wikipedia as an activity should be closest to journalism, not an exercise in science or philosophy. With that in mind, it advocates the ideal that the only thing that matters on wikipedia is producing fair, thoughtful, balanced articles about the topic in question:
To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Common Sense:
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Please feel free to add yourself to the project here.
Please feel free to list your new Common Sense-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,000 characters, don't have any dispute templates on them, and cite their sources, should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Wikipedia Main Page.