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How to Fix a False Information on Wikipedia

There are different levels of inaccurate or misinformation. If you see something that's wrong, you can just go in there and fix it yourself. The best advice is to try to be non-confrontational because hopefully other users will come to your rescue if you're in the right. A meat puppet is somebody who is a person, but they agree with you and you give them to perhaps have a conversation in the talk page where both of you agree that, yes, this is how that change should be. That's a meat puppet. You need to be kind of familiar with the rules of Wikipedia are just because you don't agree with something. Even a non-logged end user can

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