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Electowiki is very old, and has many norms that were never codified as explicit policies. Unless we specifically say so, many of the [[w:Wikipedia:Policy|English Wikipedia's policies]] apply to us, such as the [[w:Wikipedia:Manual of Style|Manual of Style]].
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== Editorial policy ==
electowiki has a policy somewhat similar to [[NPOV|Wikipedia's NPOV policy]]. However, due to the subjective nature of the topics at hand, it's hard to have a strict NPOV policy without becoming a clone of Wikipedia. Thus, the policy regarding point-of-view is one of "EPOV". "EPOV" is "electowiki Point-of-View" policy
=== EPOV ===
"'''EPOV'''" is the "electowiki Point-of-View" policy. Basically, the [[#Editorial board|editorial board]] serves as the arbiter for what belongs and what doesn't. Over time, we'll try to evolve more formal guidelines, but for now, here's some general guidelines we plan to use:
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* 2019 to current time: [[User:Psephomancy]] and [[User:RobLa]]
[[User:RobLa]] would like to formalize this somehow, but as of March 2020, hasn't tried to play [[wikipedia:BDFL|the BDFL card]] to declare a process. [[User:Psephomancy]] ''could'' have declared Electowiki a fork from wiki.electorama.com after migrating to [[meta:Miraheze|Miraheze]], but [[User:RobLa]] snagged the electowiki.org domain name before that became viable. [[User:Psephomancy]] and [[User:RobLa]] haven't had a lot of time to coordinate on editorial policy, because they have both been busy doing the tech work and hosting work associated with Electowiki. [[User:Jameson Quinn]] has elevated permissions on [[electowiki]], but it's not 100% clear why.
== Why not just use Wikipedia? ==
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