Deep Politics Wiki:Method
Deep Politics Wiki is an encyclopedia. Its point of view is curiosity—Wikimedia's "For Curious Humans," not a thesis and not a debunking shop. It follows MediaWiki content principles: content first, verifiable claims, and a tone that documents rather than campaigns.
This is an encyclopedia
The site is not a blog, a manifesto, or an indiscriminate dump of rumors. Pages exist to describe covert power, intelligence programs, clandestine networks, and the documentary record around them.
Verifiability
Allegation is not evidence. Suspicion is not proof. Prefer primary records, court findings, sworn testimony, and official investigations. When sources conflict, say so on the page.
Imported WikiSpooks pages are a source archive. They survived the fringe cut. They are not automatically a verified case file.
When a page is rewritten in this wiki's own voice:
- Documented — the essential claim is established by primary records or an official investigation
- Strongly supported — independent high-quality sources converge; some details remain disputed
- Contested — serious researchers disagree; keep the dispute visible
- Unsupported — do not publish as fact
Neutral description
Describe what the record shows. Do not launder a thesis as a finding. Multiple views belong in proportion to the sources behind them.
Curiosity is why uncomfortable residues stay on the page: a mistrial is not an acquittal; four families reporting chlamydia at one daycare is not an interview artifact; a journalist's CSAM sentence is a judgment, not proof of a pizza basement. Tidy stories of "all witch-hunt" and "all cabal" are both uncurious. See cognitive infiltration.
Living people
Claims about living people need a higher source bar before they leave archive voice.
Free content
Text is CC BY-SA. Anyone may reuse it with attribution. No editor owns a page.
No firm rules
The fringe cut and this method can be revised. Improving the encyclopedia matters more than defending a slogan.