Policy:Real People
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 | This page in a nutshell: 1. Articles about living people require particular care from editors and administrators to ensure that the content is accurate and respectful. 2. Be mindful of peoples' privacy; this includes images. 3. If you are the subject of an existing Sarna BattleTechWiki article then you are allowed, even encouraged, to edit it. 4. Articles may cover conflicts and disputes, but Sarna BTW will not take part in them. |
In lieu with our Policy:Notability, Sarna BattleTechWiki includes articles about real people - living or dead - who are linked to BattleTech in some way, though with a focus on those aspects of their work or biography that are relevant for BattleTech.
- Due diligence
Due to the nonfictional and sensitive nature of the subject matter, editors need to take care to maintain a neutral point of view. Information needs to be properly sourced.
- Privacy
This ties into the previous point: Information about real people needs to comply with privacy laws and should only be sourced from publicly available sources. This does extend to images; see also Policy:Images. Information and images can be used if they have been legally published online or in a book, magazine or similar print product.
- Articles about yourself
You are free, even invited and encouraged, to edit an article about yourself. There seems to be a widespread presumption to the effect that people should refrain from editing articles about themselves; this is explicitly not true. Since nobody knows your affairs better than you do, your input is welcome to improve the article.
- Contentious content
Some people will be involved in disputes with each other, in legal conflicts, or otherwise have contentions information about them that may be covered in the respective articles, to the extent it is relevant in a BattleTech context.
It is important to remember that Sarna BTW, while covering such content in a factual and encyclopedic way, should not get involved in such a dispute or be judgmental about it.