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==Balance== Suggestion: Another issue is imbalance. Sometimes people write things that are factually correct and well-referenced, but the information only presents one view on the subject. Suppose that someone only writes about the bad things a researcher did, and not about the good things (or the other way around). The person in question may not have bad intent: he may simply only know about the bad things. Even if the info is correct, it may look like MEpedia is trying to trash the researcher by only listing the bad things. Such a page would need a cleanup template on imbalance. So it might be good to mention this in the guideline. If you add info, be aware of the balance of the article. This is a wider issue than omitting references you disagree with. Suggestion: A related issue I see, is people using a page to push a particular hypothesis. So the page might have correct statements and references but they are selected in such a way that they suggest a particular hypothesis/interpretation. Suppose someone believes ME/CFS is a stress-related illness and starts adding info on different pages that makes the connection with other stress-related illnesses or phenomena. Then he's pushing MEpedia content and the interpretation of readers towards suggesting a link between ME/CFS and stress. I think there's currently a danger of this happening with conditions that are seen as comorbid of ME/CFS. Mentioning them on several pages is suggesting a link between them and ME/CFS. One might have similar problems if people who are adamant about mold illness, chronic lyme start adding information. They might be well-intentioned and just adding the expertise they have, but because it's always from the same perspective and suggesting the same hypothesis, this might affect the balance and neutrality of MEpedia content as well.--[[User:Sisyphus|Sisyphus]] ([[User talk:Sisyphus|talk]]) 18:20, September 16, 2019 (EDT) ===Re: Balance -- [[User:JaimeS|JaimeS]] ([[User talk:JaimeS|talk]]) 12:33, September 17, 2019 (EDT)=== : I think that this is already covered with "be careful of only citing what you agree with" (where it's deliberate). If people don't know about something, they can't help their slant because they're not aware of it. Others will have to come in and remove bias and add new information.
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