Editing Encyclopedia:Editing policy (section)

===Problems that may justify removal===
{{Policy shortcut|WP:CANTFIX|WP:WONTWORK|WP:DON'T PRESERVE}}
{{Anchor|REMOVE}}Several of our core policies discuss situations when it ''might'' be more appropriate to remove information from an article rather than preserve it. 
*[[Wikipedia:Verifiability|Verifiability]] discusses handling unsourced and contentious material
*[[Wikipedia:No original research|No original research]] discusses the need to remove original research
*[[Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not|What Wikipedia is not]] describes material that is fundamentally inappropriate for Wikipedia
*[[Wikipedia:Undue weight|Undue weight]] discusses how to balance material that gives undue weight to a particular viewpoint, which might include removal of trivia, tiny minority viewpoints, or material that cannot be supported with high-quality sources
Also, redundancy within an article should be kept to a minimum (except in the [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lead section|lead]], which is meant to be a summary of the entire article, and so is intentionally duplicative).

[[WP:Libel|Libel]], [[WP:Patent nonsense|nonsense]], and [[WP:vandalism|vandalism]] should be completely removed, as should material that [[Wikipedia:Copyright violations|violates copyright]] and material for which no reliable source that supports it has ever been [[Wikipedia:Published|published]].

Special care needs to be taken with [[Wikipedia:biographies of living people|biographies of living people]], especially when it comes to handling unsourced or poorly sourced claims about the subject. Such claims should generally be removed immediately.