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As a core value assuming good faith means that we believe that everyone who makes an edit or creates a page is doing so to provide informative, educational and accurate information--that they are trying to make a [[constructive edit]], that they are interested in doing good and building things.
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From editing an existing page to creating an new page, portal or community, we must assume that people have come to help build, not break AboutUs.
 
 
 
Everyone makes mistakes and the nature of a [[wiki]] makes it really easy to correct mistakes that we find. In fact, a [[wiki]] cries out for that kind of attention. It's how [[wiki]] pages become [[self-orgainizing]].
 
 
 
To assume good faith means that when we find an error and work to correct it, that we remember that the person who made the error was also working to make the resource better.
 
 
 
Because AboutUs edits are tracked it makes it really easy to find the edits that constitute [[vandalism]] or [[spam]]. To assume good faith in the face of evidence to the contrary, we assume that maybe they don't understand the rules or social norms of the place. Maybe they are excited at the fact that they can edit, so they are spamming the place. We just need to approach people and explain, welcome and try and understand where they are coming from. These editing policies are discussed in the editing policies page.
 
 
 
Check out our [[editing]] policies for guidelines on what make good edits on AboutUs.
 
 
 
For more information about assuming good faith check out these links:
 
 
 
[http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?AssumeGoodFaith MeatballWiki:AssumeGoodFaith]
 
 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Assume_good_faith]
 
 
 
[http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Assume_good_faith]
 
 
 
[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Assume_good_faith]
 
 
 
 
 
[[Category:AboutUs:Glossary]]
 
[[Category:WikiAnatomy]]
 

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