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-<fs xx-large>Factuality.</fs> While important, this wiki does not go out of its way to verify each and every claim individually. Individual claims may be wrong or unproven. You may reasonably engage in challenging content and corrections will be made where important. This wiki is meant to be my knowledge base; and like everyone's knowledge, my knowledge, too, will be wrong on a lot of things, if not all things at all times, always ever. That's why I'm putting this stuff //here// and //not// in everyone's face out //there//. While I will uphold that I strive to act as moral as reasonably possible in critical situations, my perspective on things //is//, by the nature of things, biased by the information I've got hold of in the past. Know that by reading this wiki you are acknowledging to be looking deep into an individual's soul, //not// debating back and forth with a writer of educational content. I am always happy to learn and improve and will gladly take a hint when pointed in the right direction, but know that being human and all, I don't have the time or nerve to fact check every. single. little. thing. until I fall over. Assuming you are the kind of person who wants //that//, then I would point you towards Wikipedia. However, knowing the kind of person you would be if you really wanted this, Wikipedia would not be good enough for you either (<wrap em>"THE BIAS!"</wrap>).
+<fs xx-large>Factuality</fs> is important in many contexts, however this wiki does not go out of its way to verify each and every claim individually. Claims may be wrong or unproven. You may reasonably engage in challenging content and corrections will be made where important. This wiki is meant to be my knowledge base; and like everyone's knowledge, my knowledge, too, will be wrong on a lot of things, if not all things at all times, always ever. That's why I'm putting this stuff //here// and //not// in everyone's face out //there//. While I will uphold that I strive to act as moral as reasonably possible in critical situations, my perspective on things //is//, by the nature of things, biased by the information I've got hold of in the past. Know that by reading this wiki you are acknowledging to be looking deep into an individual's soul, //not// debating back and forth with a writer of educational content. I am always happy to learn and improve and will gladly take a hint when pointed in the right direction, but know that being human and all, I don't have the time or nerve to fact check every single. little. thing until I fall over. Assuming you are the kind of person who wants //that//, then I would point you towards [[:Wikipedia]]. However, knowing the kind of person you would be if you really wanted this, Wikipedia would not be good enough for you either (<wrap em>"THE BIAS!"</wrap> and <wrap em>"EVERYONE CAN WRITE THERE!"</wrap>).
-Anyway, the point is that I want to make points, not fiddle with the details. I am a strong proponent of the scientific method and want to be corrected when I'm wrong, but I don't want people to make that correction process really, really painful. It seems to be that many people out there get quite the kick from knowing, or at least thinking to know, things better and act unnecessarily smug about it. Don't. Being wrong is part of the way and no drama needs to be made out of it - show me where I went wrong, why that path is wrong, why the other path is right and then //get on with your life//. Even if I end up disagreeing with you and maintaining my position, giving it any additional attention beyond what I just described //is not worth even half a second of your attention//. I am just one more person and there are worse people out there, people with even worse and even more radical ideas and beliefs than mine.
+Anyway, **the point is that I want to make points, not fiddle with the details**. I will try to make conclusions on the basis of as few factual components as possible((The less facts I need to defend or verify, the better. If I can reach and defend a conclusion based on three facts rather than twenty, I will use three.)). I am a strong proponent of the scientific method and want to be corrected when I'm wrong, but I don't want people to make that correction process really, really painful. It seems to be that many people out there get quite the kick from knowing, or at least thinking to know, things better and act unnecessarily smug about it. Don't. Being wrong is part of the way and no drama needs to be made out of it - show me where I went wrong, why that path is wrong, why the other path is right and then //get on with your life//. Even if I end up disagreeing with you and maintaining my position, giving it any additional attention beyond what I just described //is not worth your time//. I am just one more person and there are worse people out there, people with even worse and even more radical ideas and beliefs than mine.
 So, for sanity's sake, claims on this Wiki will be wrong and that is okay. In most cases, so I hope, it will be negligible and the factual error does not hurt the conclusion of the text, and if you must you can //point it out//. Beyond that you are going to have to live with other people on the internet being wrong. What about I am wrong and we still remain friends?
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-I have a special [[templates:|template]] that I will place in front of information that I'm not sure may actually be correct. Those are special disclaimers that I go out of my way for to include, but rest assured that, technically, the disclaimer applies to all content all over the page. The notice informs the reader about the unclear nature of certain claims within an articles and encourages them to read this article right here to learn my full perspective on the issue.
+I have a special [[templates:|template]] that I will place in front of information that I'm not sure may actually be correct. Those are special disclaimers that I go out of my way for to include, but rest assured that, technically, the disclaimer applies to all content all over the wiki. The notice informs the reader about the unclear nature of certain claims within an articles and encourages them to read this article right here to learn my full perspective on the issue.
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