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== Try to fix problems ==

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''Fix problems if you can, flag or remove them if you can't.'' Preserve appropriate content. As long as any of the facts or ideas added to the article would belong in a "finished" article, they should be retained and the writing cleaned up on the spot, or [[Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup|tagged]] if necessary. If you think a page needs to be rewritten or changed substantially, go ahead and do it, but preserve any content you think might have some value on the [[Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines#How to use article talk pages|talk page]], along with a comment about why you made the change. Do not remove good information solely because it is poorly presented; instead, improve the presentation by rewriting the passage. The [[Wikipedia:How to edit a page|editing process]] tends to guide articles through ever-higher [[WP:ASSESS|levels of quality]] over time. Great Wikipedia articles can come from a succession of editors' efforts.

Instead of deleting text, consider:
*rephrasing
*correcting inaccuracy while keeping the rest of the content intact 
*moving text within an article or to another article (existing or new)
*adding more of what you think is important to make an article more balanced
*requesting a citation by adding the {{tl|cn}} tag
*doing a quick [[Template:Findsources3|search for sources]] and adding a citation yourself
*adding [[Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup|appropriate cleanup tags]] to problematic sections
*[[Wikipedia:Linkrot#Repairing a dead link|repair a dead link]] if a new [[URL]] for the page or an [[archive site|archive]] of the old one can be located
*merging the entire article into another article with the original article turned into a [[WP:redirect|redirect]] as described at [[Wikipedia:MERGETEXT|performing a merge]]

Several of our core policies discuss situations when it might be more appropriate to remove information rather than to preserve it.  [[WP:Verifiability]] discusses handling unsourced and contentious material; [[WP:No original research]] discusses the need to remove original research; and [[WP:UNDUE]] discusses how to balance material that gives undue weight to a particular viewpoint, which might include removal.  Also, redundancy within an article should be kept to a minimum (excepting the [[WP:LEAD|lead]], which is meant to be a summary of the entire article, and so is intentionally duplicative).  Libel, nonsense and vandalism should be completely removed, as should material that violates copyright.  

Special care needs to be taken with biographies of living people, especially when it comes to handling unsourced, or poorly sourced claims about the subject.  Editors working on such articles need to know and understand the extra restrictions that are laid out at [[WP:Biographies of living people]].