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Essay on editing Misplaced Pages | This is an essay. It contains the advice or opinions of one or more Misplaced Pages contributors. This page is not an encyclopedia article, nor is it one of Misplaced Pages's policies or guidelines, as it has not been thoroughly vetted by the community. Some essays represent widespread norms; others only represent minority viewpoints. | Shortcut |
Wikipuffery is the puffing done by Misplaced Pages editors in mainspace, often in misguided good faith, seeking to exaggerate the notability of article subjects to avoid deletion of the article. Symptoms include use of the adjective "notable" to describe trivial accomplishments, lead paragraphs that proclaim the superiority of the subject to sliced bread, adding lots of footnotes to non-reliable sources or sources that do not mention the subject, and the stilted language resulting when editors stitch together passing references in reliable sources in consecutive sentences to make it appear as if there has been significant independent coverage of the subject. This needs to be distinguished from the excessive adjective use that results from WP:COPYVIO--though the effect is similar.