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===Problems that may justify removal===
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{{Anchor|REMOVE}}Several of our core policies discuss situations when it ''might'' be more appropriate to remove information from an article rather than preserve it. [[Wikipedia:Verifiability]] discusses handling ''unsourced and contentious'' material; [[Wikipedia:No original research]] discusses the need to remove ''original research''; [[Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not]] describes material that is ''fundamentally inappropriate'' for Wikipedia; and [[Wikipedia:Undue weight]] discusses how to balance ''material that gives undue weight to a particular viewpoint'', which might include removal of trivia, tiny minority viewpoints, or material that ''cannot be supported with high-quality sources''. Also, ''redundancy'' within an article should be kept to a minimum (except in the [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lead section|lead]], which is meant to be a summary of the entire article, and so is intentionally duplicative).
[[WP:Libel|Libel]], [[WP:Patent nonsense|nonsense]], and [[WP:vandalism|vandalism]] should be completely removed, as should material that [[Wikipedia:Copyright violations|violates copyright]] and material for which no reliable source that supports it has ever been [[Wikipedia:Published|published]].
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