This article is part of a Wikipedia Religious UnReliable Sources series.
Imagine this, if you will. You’re a member of a church, charity, religious group or organization. You’re reading an article on Wikipedia and are shocked or vexed to run across something you know personally to contain misinterpretation, misinformation or blatant falsehoods about your beliefs or practices.
“Easy,” you think. “Wikipedia’s for everybody, right? I’ll just set up an editor’s account and contribute the truth to the article.”
You do that and leave a note in the talk page explaining that as a member of the faith, you know what the article stated was wrong, and so you corrected it. You even provide a link to your scripture or a manual or guidebook proving your information to be accurate.
You go back to the page. Your edit was reversed because your documentation was not “reliable.” Coming from a primary source (from texts of the religion itself) it cannot be cited as it violates the Wikipedia policy of NPOV (Neutral Point of View).
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