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Wikipedia is a user-edited website, but it is not a fan website; it is an encyclopedia. Accordingly, all articles, including those on celebrity actors or musicians who have attracted thousands of eager fans, must conform to a neutral point of view (NPOV). The NPOV policy requires that articles be written in a way that represents fairly, proportionately, and, as far as possible, without bias, all of the significant views that have been published by reliable sources on their topic. While editors may try to add a biased point of view to any type of Wikipedia article, including articles about countries, history, or religion, articles about celebrity musicians, singers and actors and actresses are particularly liable to contain a biased point of view, which is typically biased in favour of the subject. In these articles, fan-editors may only put in positive information and they may seek to delete any negative reviews.