Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-26564088-20190924213811/@comment-29684190-20190925022901

ReikaTachyon wrote:

Anything short of that is pure speculation, and I have to applaud you guys for proving it. You were so convinced that Cinder's semblance was dust manipulation. You thought you had it all figured out. But you didn't. Because it doesn't matter until it's verified. Cinder's semblance is not dust manipulation. The VAs were wrong, and by extension, due to your gullibility, so were you.

And there's no shame in that. Being wrong is fine. My RWBY theories are wrong all the damn time. Just be wrong, here, in the forums. Don't be wrong on official wiki pages. If something isn't verified, leave it to be discussed here, and simply leave the wiki entry incomplete for the time being. It's really that simple. The cinder thing has been incomplete for year now and it was only added because we got two seperate statements from two different sources, one of which is Miles Luna, who is the writer on the show and said outright that it's dust manipulation. But as they didn't film the panel we STILL didn't feel comfortable in adding it. So only after we got a second source we were comfortable in adding it.

Editing the wiki is effin hard. Especially when the creators decide to make the world more "free" aka not saying anything concrete to not "write themselves into a corner". But that makes it all the more difficult for us. How does Beacon look like? Vale? Mistral? In every appearance they have a slight change so how do we tackle that? They have made so many retcons that it's difficult to keep up, what to do then? What would you do with the Neo issue? Both sides have arguments.

Their idea to not give any concrete dates and times means that we have to guess how the timeline goes. Or distances between places.

If you went through the wiki you'll probably find more stuff you disagree with, but guess what? You're free to fix it. Nobody ever seems to want to help and fix, only complain after the fact.

Hindsight is 20:20, It's easy to come here and say what's wrong after the fact, but nobody cares when we have the difficult job of building this place.

And no matter what we do we get called out for it. Manticores and Chimeras. If we say they're related it's wrong. If we say they're not related it's wrong. SO we chose to not even mention it. Guess what, that's wrong too.