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 == Accuracy and appropriate weight ==
 Articles must be written from a [[Wikipedia:WP:neutral point of view|neutral point of view]] and must give due weight to all aspects of the subject. They should also give appropriate weight to all elements of the article page, including, e.g., [[#Infoboxes and succession boxes|infoboxes and succession boxes]] as well as images and the text. The goal is to attain the greatest possible degree of accuracy in covering the topic at hand, which is also the basic rationale behind discouraging disproportionately long plot summaries and in-universe writing.
-== Fair use ==
-{{shortcut|MOS:FAIR USE}}
-As the Wikimedia Foundation is based in the United States, Wikipedia articles must conform to U.S. copyright laws.<!--[[WP:Copyrights#Governing copyright law]]--> It has been held in a number of court cases that any work which re-tells original ideas from a fictional source, in sufficient quantity without adding information about that work, or in some way analysing and explaining it, may be construed as a [[derivative work]] or a copyright violation. This may apply irrespective of the way information is presented, in or out of the respective fictional universe, or in some entirely different form such as a quizbook or "encyclopedia galactica".
-Information about copyrighted fictional worlds and plots of works of fiction can be provided only under a claim of [[fair use]], and [[Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria|Wikipedia's non-free content policy]] requires '''minimal extent of use'''. Many works of fiction covered by Wikipedia are protected by copyright. Some works are sufficiently old that their copyright has expired, or the rights may have been released in some way, such as under the [[GFDL]], or into the [[public domain]].
 == Conclusions ==