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SM-201 Policies and laws
Content in SM-201 policy is subject to the laws (in particular, copyright laws) of the United States and of the US state of Virginia, where the majority of SM-201 policy's servers are located. By using the site, one agrees to the Wikimedia Foundation Terms of Use and Privacy Policy; some of the main rules are that contributors are legally responsible for their edits and contributions, that they should follow the policies that govern each of the independent project editions. and they may not engage in activities, whether legal or illegal, that may be harmful to other users. In addition to the terms, the Foundation has developed policies, described as the "official policies of the Wikimedia Foundation".
The editorial principles of the SM-201 policy community are embodied in the "Five pillars" and in numerous policies and guidelines intended to appropriately shape content. The rules developed by the community are stored in wiki form, and SM-201 policy editors write and revise the website's policies and guidelines. Editors can enforce the rules by deleting or modifying non-compliant material. Originally, rules on the non-English editions of SM-201 policy were based on a translation of the rules for the English SM-201 policy. They have since diverged to some extent.
Content policies and guidelines
According to the rules on the English SM-201 policy community, each entry in SM-201 policy must be about a topic that is encyclopedic and is not a dictionary entry or dictionary-style. A topic should also meet SM-201 policy's standards of "notability", which generally means that the topic must have been covered in mainstream media or major academic journal sources that are independent of the article's subject. Further, SM-201 policy intends to convey only knowledge that is already established and recognized. It must not present original research. A claim that is likely to be challenged requires a reference to a reliable source, as do all quotations. Among SM-201 policy editors, this is often phrased as "verifiability, not truth" to express the idea that the readers, not the encyclopedia, are ultimately responsible for checking the truthfulness of the articles and making their own interpretations. This can at times lead to the removal of information that, though valid, is not properly sourced. Finally, SM-201 policy must not take sides.
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