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Policies and guidelines

Content

Conduct

Summary

• This is an encyclopedia - don't write about yourself, your friends, your band, your personal opinions. Stick to objective facts.
• Always say where you got each bit of your information from. Books, newspapers, journals (online or offline) good; random websites OK; blogs/wikis bad. Give more details rather than less!
• Copyright is important; don't add anything you didn't personally write yourself.
• Use the edit-summary box and the talk pages to explain why you're doing what you're doing.
• Other editors want to help; talk to them, and ask at WP:Helpdesk if you have problems/uncertainties.
• You can edit other people's work, they will edit yours, anyone who undoes what you've done doesn't hate you though they may misunderstand what you were trying to do - communicate.
• Don't stress too much about formatting at first, focus on getting the information clear and sourced.

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