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==Policies and guidelines== | ==Policies and guidelines== | ||
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RationalWiki has a set of [[Wiki community|community]] standards to which it sometimes / somewhat adheres. For example, it states "Talk pages should ''never'' be deleted", but in actual practice, [[talk page]]s deemed to consist of [[troll]]ing sometimes are deleted. [[:Category:Policy|Policies]] are few, and readily disregarded. RationalWiki does not aspire to be a general purpose [[:Category:Encyclopedia|encyclopedia]] like [[:Category:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]]; therefore, pages deemed to be [[Off-topic|off-mission]] are deleted. Such decisions are made through a mobocratic process. | RationalWiki has a set of [[Wiki community|community]] standards to which it sometimes / somewhat adheres. For example, it states "Talk pages should ''never'' be deleted", but in actual practice, [[talk page]]s deemed to consist of [[troll]]ing sometimes are deleted. [[:Category:Policy|Policies]] are few, and readily disregarded. RationalWiki does not aspire to be a general purpose [[:Category:Encyclopedia|encyclopedia]] like [[:Category:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]]; therefore, pages deemed to be [[Off-topic|off-mission]] are deleted. Such decisions are made through a mobocratic process. | ||
==Culture== | ==Culture== | ||
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[[RationalWikian]]s generally tend to frown on editing articles from a non-leftist point of view, and favor instead having talk page discussions with dissenting viewpoints. | [[RationalWikian]]s generally tend to frown on editing articles from a non-leftist point of view, and favor instead having talk page discussions with dissenting viewpoints. | ||
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*[[Debatepedia wiki]] also discusses controversial topics – but puts both viewpoints side-by-side on the same page – RationalWiki also has side-by-side articles | *[[Debatepedia wiki]] also discusses controversial topics – but puts both viewpoints side-by-side on the same page – RationalWiki also has side-by-side articles | ||
*[[Psiram]] — a wiki similar in attitude (multilingual)<includeonly> | *[[Psiram]] — a wiki similar in attitude (multilingual)<includeonly> | ||
[[Category:Wikis with a strong viewpoint]] | [[Category:Wikis with a strong viewpoint]] | ||
[[Category:Ideology]] | [[Category:Ideology]] | ||