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Blanking sections sometimes violates policies, and should often instead be discussed beforehand before being removed (or totally rewritten) on a page.
There are several policies which should be considered before blanking sections from within an article. Hence, consider the action of deleting an article section to be a potential violation of some Wikipedia policies or guidelines.
There are several policies that support the removal of sections and other content. The Wikipedia:Editing policy discusses the various circumstances where content can and sometimes should be removed if it can't be improved. Among the other policies which support the removal of content in some circumstances are Wikipedia:Copyright, Wikipedia:Vandalism, Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not, and the core policies of Wikipedia:Neutral point of view, Wikipedia:Verifiability, and Wikipedia:Original research. The Wikipedia:Libel and Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons policies also describe when it is policy to remove certain content.
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