Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-189.217.47.59-20161206085118/@comment-26397825-20161207092041

73.Anon.52 wrote: If something is supported in the show, but a single part is not, we often have to remove it wholesale, but we won't know it is speculation and not recently confirmed information.

This mostly occurs because RT tries not to tie themselves down with details/reveal them unless absolutely necessary... which is smart, but then they end up having these things revealed unexpectedly on sources such as streams(Cons, Charity, and even unrelated RT series) and twitter. This means that if we are not very diligent in source checking edits we can end up with errors that last weeks or months from even non-malicious fans. The biggest example I can think of is Jaune's semblance; for months on end we all believed that his semblance was something of a force field because someone had come through and said that they said it in the Directir's Commentary in Volume 1. It was actually me looking through on my copy for something when we found out that was incorrect; the only thing they had said about Jaune's semblance was that the scene with Cardin in the Emerald Forest was our first glimpse of it. Nothing about forcefields or what it does, only that it was the first glimpse.

So now we really crack down on people claiming stuff, asking for verification and citations before adding it to articles so we can avoid another situation like that, where incorrect information say on the page for at least a six months that I know of.