Tyne and Wear Metro wiki:About

The Tyne and Wear Metro wiki is an enthusiast hub for information about the Tyne and Wear Metro and its history, network, rolling stock, and operations.

Why not Wikipedia?

The Tyne and Wear Metro wiki is fundamentally very similar to Wikipedia. In fact, it uses the exact same MediaWiki software. However, it is not a replacement for Wikipedia's articles related to the Tyne and Wear Metro, and both serve a purpose.

Wikipedia is written for a general audience and primarily as a research tool. As such, Wikipedia's editors have adopted lots of policies and guidelines on notability, verifiability, and neutrality to make it a useful resource for academic research. The Tyne and Wear Metro wiki is written primarily for enthusiasts, who often have different expectations to academic researchers. As such, the Tyne and Wear Metro wiki has more relaxed policies.

Policies and guidelines

While the Tyne and Wear Metro wiki's policies and guidelines have some important differences to Wikipedia's, many of them are the same. Particularly, Wikipedia's conduct policies, editing guidelines and style guidelines largely also apply to the Tyne and Wear Metro wiki. Since Wikipedia is already very well-established, it is useful to treat them as a base, with the Tyne and Wear Metro wiki's policies being derived from them. Below are just two policies that are notably different to Wikipedia's.

Notability

Anything unique or mostly unique to the Tyne and Wear Metro and which is likely to be of interest to enthusiasts is considered notable enough for the Tyne and Wear Metro wiki, even if it does not have significant coverage in external sources. Unlike Wikipedia, the Tyne and Wear Metro wiki can sometimes act as an "indiscriminate collection of information" for content within this scope.

Verifiability

While the Tyne and Wear Metro wiki should strive to be entirely factually accurate, not everything about the Tyne and Wear Metro is well documented, and thus is not verifiable by Wikipedia's standards. As such, original research, synthesis, articles written based exclusively on primary sources, and reasonable speculation (providing it is clearly presented as such) are all acceptable on the Tyne and Wear Metro wiki. However, providing citations to reliable sources where possible is still encouraged.