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In articles about works of art, games, TV series and other subjects without estimable values, Wiki editors will often try to pass on POV opinions by writing under a pseudonym, e.g., "some fans think the New York Yankees are the greatest baseball team ever". Unless you can provide a survey, a review or any similar type of source for your praise ...
Many articles have been rapidly deleted via the proposed deletion and speedy deletion processes, while others have been deleted according to subjective criteria such as lack of significance or lack of notability. Sadly, these decisions are sometimes based on opinion and not research.
Articles should be based on reliable, independent, published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy. This means that we publish only the analysis, views, and opinions of reliable authors, and not those of Wikipedians, who have read and interpreted primary source material for themselves.
It is a large group that does not express their opinions publicly. The silent majority has existed since our colonial era. Less than 50% of the colonials wanted independence.
For example, if 70% of the sentences in an article about Alice Expert come from Alice's own writing, or Alice's employer's website, then the article is based upon non-independent sources. On the other hand, if 70% of the content in that article comes from magazine articles written by journalists, then the article is based upon independent sources.
However, biased sources are not inherently disallowed based on bias alone, although other aspects of the source may make it invalid. A neutral point of view should be achieved by balancing the bias in sources based on the weight of the opinion in reliable sources and not by excluding sources that do not conform to the editor's point of view.
Facts Precede Opinions states that content accepted by Wikipedians to be factual takes precedence over content that is contended to be opinionated. This is a complement to NPOV . When there are conflicting viewpoints among editors there are two options on how to proceed:
Lead-alls, a central article that provides an overview of major news events and connects to related articles on narrower subjects; [1] Columns, a recurring item; Opinion pieces, including editorials (written by the editors of the publication) and op-eds (written by people outside the news organization)