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Nothing or no one is perfect. We can find flaws in anything if we put our mind to it. In many wikipedia articles there is a section devoted to criticisms of the subject and may even spin off an entire article if the subject is highly notable and draws plenty of controversies. The content of these criticisms may may lead to edit wars, personal attacks, arbitrations, pages locked from editing, etc. over how this content should be presented. A type of criticism that is uncontested in one article may draw resistance if a similar type of criticism is put in another article leading to inconsistency of how criticism content presented throughout wikipedia. Inculding criticisms can be perceived as an attack on the subject but not including them may hinder a fully informative article on a particular subject. The goal of this essay is to find a consistent way of presenting criticism in articles in a fair way and developing criteria for how something critical should be included. As always, core policies should be honored and in the case living people, WP:BLP should be addressed.