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About the Lost Highway wiki: Mission Statement and How the Lost Highway wiki differs from Wikipedia
Mission Statement
- The Lost Highway wiki is an experiment in collaborative interpretation. The goals of the Lost Highway wiki are to enable the collaborative interpretation of David Lynch's Lost Highway, and to allow contributors to develop multiple interpretations of Lost Highway from multiple points of view.
- The goal of the Lost Highway wiki not to produce battles over "the one correct interpretation" of Lost Highway.
- Anyone can contribute to and help edit the pages at the Lost Highway wiki.
How the Lost Highway wiki differs from Wikipedia
As an encyclopedia, Wikipedia's three central content policies are Neutral point of view, Verifiability, and No Original Research.
Wikipedia's three policies are interrelated: content should consist of the unbiased presentation (neutral point of view) of content published by reliable sources (verifiability) and should not contain the presentation of original ideas developed by wiki contributors (no original research).
The Lost Highway wiki rejects the prohibition against original research and modifies the other two policies accordingly.
As a work of collaborative interpretation, the policies of the Lost Highway wiki are to encourage original research that interprets Lost Highway (a verifiable source) and to remain neutral toward the multiple interpretations developed by contributors (no one correct interpretation).
In the Lost Highway wiki, "verifiability" implies that contributors should support interpretations, original or otherwise, using evidence from the film, Lost Highway.
In the Lost Highway wiki, "neutral point of view" implies that contributors should not unilaterally delete interpretations developed by others. Challenges to stated interpretations should take place via the relevant "discussion" pages, with the initial aim of improving the interpretation in question.
