Anarchopedia:Truth

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Anarchopedia will endeavor to communicate the truth, first and foremost. Anger is understandable, and can be moving, but it is not intellectually convincing and should be avoided; however, it should never be replaced by the insipid or the disingenuous or the propagandized.

Links are fine, but they are no guarantee of any truth at all; Wikipedia editors increasingly defend what they know to be untrue with the Notability rule

Note that this is not mutually exclusive to Anarchopedia:Subjective. Subjectivity is assumed to exist at the edges of what has been defined as Truth.

Top Out

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"Don't Top Out", do not go Over the Top; these are phrases from acting methodology, which warn actors to save the volume and intensity of the emotions they impart to a speech, for the end of the speech. If you start out at full volume, "you'll leave yourself with nowhere to go" If one deems the killing of any three cops to be a massacre, as the articles on WP do, then 'massacre' stops meaning anything. Side note: one cop = 3.9 strikers, roughly, according to the "Rule of Using Massacre in a Press Article" This also helps nicely to achieve Wikipedia:WP:NPOV with guidance rather than that rule's censorship.

Balance

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"Balance" is to be avoided; a lie is not the other side of the truth, and the chances are infinitely small that both sides of an argument are of exactly equal worth. If an article is exactly balanced, something is probably wrong with it

Balance with reference to Utility; while Truth is of uppermost importance, Balance is preferred; mostly because of Justice but Completeness is almost as important a rationale in this case

Point of View

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• Most thinking is skewed; one of the ways this is achieved is to propose Point of View as a relative thing.
• The best ideas have less probability of being shared by the majority.
• One of the supports for the idea of PoV is the assumption of bias; this amounts to nothing more than "You would say that" (Tu Quoque). Obviously we want more people to learn more faster, but we should not be surprised if the people who most want to learn are those with the most vested interest.

Anarchopedia does not name articles what the news media calls them, if they have abandoned responsible journalism for sensationalism (Wikipedia:Miami cannibal attack). Conversely, it reports all viewpoints, as there is no reason not to once it becomes possible to truthfully comment on those viewpoints rather than simply report what they say.

Problems with Notability and Verifiability as standards to replace Truth

Incompatibility between the two:

Notability allows articles to exist if the subject is notable, even if entirely unsourced; and Verifiably allows unsourced material to be removed.

See also

• Anarchopedia:Consensus building
• Anarchopedia:Copyright
• Anarchopedia:Quote
• Anarchopedia:Point of View shortcut A:POV
• Anarchopedia:Subjective
• Anarchopedia:Truth (shortcut A:T)
  • Balance A:T#B
• Anarchopedia:Utility (shortcut A:U)