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Wikipedia: Five Pillars
[edit]From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
The fundamental principles of Wikipedia may be summarized in five "pillars":
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia
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It combines many features of general and specialized encyclopedia, almanacs, and gazetteers. Wikipedia is not a soapbox, an advertising platform, a vanity press, an experiment in anarchy or democracy, an indiscriminate collection of information, or a web directory. it is not a dictionary, a newspaper, or a collection of information, or a web directory. It is not a dictionary, a newspaper, or a collection of source documents, although some of it fellow Wikimedia projects are.