Wikipedia:Accuracy dispute

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If a wikipedia article links to this page, it is because someone is concerned that the article may be very inaccurate. You can use the following wiki-code to add such a header:

The factual accuracy of this article is disputed.
Please see discussion on the talk page .

You can do this by typing {{disputed}}.

The accuracy (or correctness) of an article may be a problem if:

  • It contains a lot of unlikely information, without having references.
  • It contains information which is very hard to prove correct.
  • In, for example, a long list, some mistakes have been found, suggesting that the list as a whole may need further checking.
  • It has been written (or edited) by a user who is known to write wrongly on the topic.

If you come across a page with an accuracy argument, the best way to solve the problem is to peer review the content, and check whether it's inaccurate. Once you've checked, edit the page to remove the header, and put something like the following in your edit summary:

Verified article -- removed accuracy dispute

Don't remove accuracy disputes simply because the material looks reasonable: please take the time to properly verify it. Please also add to the article any sources you used to verify the information in it: see cite your sources.

See also: Wikipedia:Pages needing attention, Wikipedia:NPOV dispute

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