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WPNPOV #99 Wikipedia Policy
Wikipedia Policy - Summarizing source material without changing its meaning is not synthesis; it is good editing. The best practice is to write Wikipedia articles by taking information from different reliable sources about a subject and putting those claims on an article page in our own words, yet true to the original intent — with each claim attributable to a source that explicitly makes that claim. Editors should not make the mistake of thinking that if A is published by a reliable source, and B is published by a reliable source, then A and B can be joined together in an article to come to the conclusion C. This would be a ''synthesis'' of published material which advances a new position, which constitutes original research. ref Mr. Wales disapproves of synthesized historical theories and states: "Some who completely
Channel: Education
Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
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