User:Friday/fundamentalism

What is wikipedian fundamentalism?

I define fundamentalism in the wikipedian sense as having strong desire to advance the core goal of the project - to produce a high quality, free content encyclopedia. "Encyclopedia" to a fundamentalist implies a set of encyclopedic standards - these are described largely by the holy trinity of content policies: WP:NPOV, WP:V and WP:NOR. A fundamentalist's main (perhaps even only?) goal is to improve the encyclopedia.

Fundamentalists may tend to lean heavily toward WP:IAR because they give the encyclopedia much greater value than the wiki. Fundamentalists think WP:AGF is sound social practice and thus give all editors their due respect, but they have no love for people whose goals run contrary to the project's goals.

Fundamentalists do not necessarily have tendency to adhere to tradition. Traditions which do not advance the core goal of the project can be disregarded if there's reason to do so. Fundamentalists realize well that Wikipedia is not paper, but also remember that it is an encyclopedia.