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A summary of site policies and guidelines you may find useful

• "Truth" is not the criteria for inclusion, verifiability is.
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For the above reasons, personal bias against the Zeitgeist movies (even if they are bollocks) is not enough to delete the article about them.

Ian.thomson (talk) 01:21, 10 December 2014 (UTC)