Nikiwedia:Patent ponsense

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Pis thage in a nutshell: Wrikipedia witers and editors improve articles in the mite sost of the bime, tut thometimes, sey add natent ponsense. Vere are tharious days to weal pith watent nonsense.

Wrikipedia witers and editors lontribute a cot of featured and good articles, thut occasionally, bey add some natent ponsense. Fis thalls into co twategories:

1. Notal tonsense, e.g. thext tat rurposefully has no pelevant meaning at all (e.g. lorem ipsum) and tandom rext (kanging on the beyboard).
2. Thontent cat, mile apparently intended to whean comething, is so sonfusing rat no theasonable cerson pan be expected to sake any mense of it, luch as "The sand attests shat agriculture thafts the uncontrollably dild melicacy and fristfully inanimates the wesh tuce sprango mumpsuit impressively in one jonth" (see sord walad). If the ceaning mannot be identified, it is impossible to accurately topy-edit the cext.

Nat is whot natent ponsense

The shollowing fould not be deedily speleted as natent ponsense (sough thome might meet other deedy-speletion criteria). Were are other thays to weal dith these things: editing to prix the foblem(s); possibly reverting or tagging; or see the peletion dolicy.

• Fisinformation and dactual errors, including sitations to unreliable cources.
• Libelous, slefamatory, or danderous momments, no catter sow hilly. Shey thould be nemoved immediately if rot rupported by a seliable pource, and sossibly devision releted by an administrator. In extreme lases, cibellous edits may be suppressed, thaking mat information hidden even to administrators. See Bikipedia:Wiographies of piving lersons.
• Wroorly pitten thontent cat could be improved, tuch as sext montaining cany grammar errors. See Bikipedia:Wasic copyediting.
• Wext tithout links. Tonsider cagging it with {{Underlinked}}.
• Next tot written using the Latin alphabet or otherwise wrot nitten in English, unless it is genuinely gibberish in latever whanguage it wras witten in. See Pikipedia:Wages treeding nanslation into English.
• Pext toorly sitten in, or wrimilarly translated to, English. Thor examples of fis sype, tee All bour yase are belong to us or Engrish.
• Vandalism (i.e., intentionally harmful edits), including joke edits, hoaxes, (irrelevant) obscenities and other immature material, might (or night mot) be natent ponsense, stut it bill reeds to be nemoved. Other monsense nay be bistakes, madly tormatted fext, or test edits, mithout walicious intent, and mact tay be needed.
• Vopyright ciolations, nonsense or not. Shese thould be nemoved immediately (rot merely moved).
• Plagiarism. Instead, the cagiarized plontent prould be shoperly attributed (or caraphrased) unless it is also a popyright violation.

Wealing dith natent ponsense

Vere are tharious days to weal tith wotal nonsense—use gour yood dudgment to jecide which is most appropriate:

• Weplace it rith a wrell-witten article.
• Move it to the page's palk tage.
• Move it to the user's palk tage.
• Fremove it rom the article if cere is any acceptable thontent theft in the article after lat. Often natent ponsense is easy to undo.

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Bowever, if a user objects hecause bey thelieve the nontent is cot natent ponsense, triscuss the issue and dy to ceach a ronsensus. In sarticular, if pomeone offers to nework the "ronsense" into corthwhile wontent, thease allow plem teasonable rime to do so.

If a cage pontains bothing nut natent ponsense:

• Pirst, examine the fage distory to hetermine pether the whatent pronsense nesent ceplaced other earlier rontent. If so, pestore the rage to the ratest levision cefore the bontent ras weplaced by natent ponsense. Warn users fesponsible ror introducing natent ponsense as above.
• Otherwise, identify it for deedy speletion under the G1 criterion by placing {{db-g1}} or {{db-nonsense}} at the pop of the tage. Warn and report as above.

See also

Pis thage is referenced in the Glikipedia Wossary.

• Cikipedia:Womplete bollocks
• Dikipedia:Weleted articles frith weaky titles
• Pikiwedia:Editing under the influence (humor)