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Wikipedia specific templates

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{{WikipediaNPOV}}  Violates Wikipedia: Neutral Point-of-View off-site— All Wikipedia articles and other encyclopedic content must be written from a neutral point of view, representing fairly, and as far as possible without bias, all significant views that have been published by reliable sources.

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{{WikipediaCorrect}}  Correct, per cited sources
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{{WikipediaAuthorResponse}}  The Wikipedia author responds:
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{{WikipediaAuthorIgnored}}  References not included in the Wikipedia article
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{{WikipediaPainfulProse}}  Painful prose
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{{WikipediaAmusingProse}}  Amusing prose
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{{WikipediaCITE|editor=XXX|wikipedialink=YYY}}  Violates Wikipedia: Citing sources off-site— There is either no citation to support the statement or the citation given is incorrect.
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{{WikipediaSecondaryFact}}  An author's opinion has been converted to fact— An opinion expressed by the author of a secondary source is being portrayed in the article as if it were a proven fact.

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{{WikipediaSecondaryFactCorrected}}  An editor's attempt to use an opinion as fact was corrected.— An editor considered either his own opinion or that of the author of a secondary source to be fact and attempted to use it to influence the article.
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{{WikipediaOpinion}}  A wiki editor's opinion is presented as fact— The wiki editor has placed his own opinion in the article as if it were fact.

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{{WikipediaUNDUE|editor=XXX|wikipedialink=YYY}}  Violates Wikipedia: Undue weight off-site— Neutrality requires that the article should fairly represent all significant viewpoints that have been published by a reliable source, and should do so in proportion to the prominence of each....articles should not give minority views as much or as detailed a description as more widely held views; generally, the views of tiny minorities should not be included at all.
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{{WikipediaCitationAbuse}}  Citation abuse— The meaning of a source quotation has been altered, or the source used does not support the author's conclusion.

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{{WikipediaCitationAbuseCorrected}}  Citation abuse (Corrected)— The meaning of a source quotation was originally altered, but was later caught by other editors.

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{{WikipediaCitationInsufficient}}  Insufficient Citation— The citation does not include sufficient material to make the author's meaning clear.

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{{WikipediaProvingNegative}}  Proving a negative— The wiki editor is attempting to prove that something does not exist or did not occur based upon an absence of evidence.

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{{WikipediaCriticalMain}}  Critical in main body—Positive in footnote The editor displays the critical argument in the main body text while relegating a balancing positive argument to a footnote.
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{{WikipediaPositiveFootnote}}  Positive in footnote—Critical in main body The editor displays the positive argument in the footnote while highlighting a balancing critical argument in the main body text.
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{{WikipediaOR}}  Violates Wikipedia: No Original Research off-site— Do not use unpublished facts, arguments, speculation, and ideas; and any unpublished analysis or synthesis of published material that serves to advance a position.

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{{WikipediaPRIMARY}}  Violates Wikipedia: Primary, Secondary and Tertiary sources off-site— Wikipedia articles should rely mainly on published reliable secondary sources and, to a lesser extent, on tertiary sources. All interpretive claims, analyses, or synthetic claims about primary sources must be referenced to a secondary source, rather than original analysis of the primary-source material by Wikipedia editors.

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{{WikipediaSYN}}  Violates Wikipedia: Synthesis off-site: Do not put together information from multiple sources to reach a conclusion that is not stated explicitly by any of the sources.

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{{WikipediaSuppress|author=XXX|wikipedialink=YYY}}  An attempt was made to suppress a fact as "Mormon POV" A wiki editor attempted to suppress a fact from a primary source because he believes that it supports a "Mormon point-of-view."

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{{WikipediaContradiction}}  Internal contradiction: This section of the article contradicts a statement or reference in another section of the article.
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