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One of Wikipedia's rules to consider:
Please make omissions explicit when creating or editing an article. When writing an article, always aim for completeness. But if for some reason you can't cover a point that should be covered, make that omission explicit. You can do this either by leaving a note on the discussion page or by leaving HTML comments within the text and adding a notice to the bottom about the omissions. This has two purposes: it entices others to contribute, and it alerts non-experts that the article they're reading doesn't yet give the full story.
Don't feel bad if you can't rigorously cover every aspect of some subject. That's why Wikipedia is a collaborative encyclopedia—we work together to achieve what we could not achieve individually. Every aspect that you cover means less work for someone else, plus you may cover something that someone else may not think of, but is nevertheless important to the subject.
Further, if there is a common misunderstanding or otherwise widely-known, but patently false information regarding the topic of a particular article, it is worth including, and clarifying the fact. Don't just leave it out, lest an unknowing editor may add the common misunderstanding into the article, requiring it to be removed (perhaps multiple times).