Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-26564088-20190924213811/@comment-32346149-20190925015516

I think the problem is, and please don't take offense to this (because it seems like everybody takes offense to everything I say), that the people running this site have forgotten what their function is. Anybody contributing to pages on this wiki is tasked with reporting and cataloguing facts. Not speculation, not rumors, not the murmurings of voice talent; facts.

Nothing with regard to Cinder's semblance, up until now, has ever been a fact. It has always been conjecture and it has always been unsubstantiated. It doesn't matter if Lindsay says it, and it doesn't matter if Miles hints at it; it's not a fact until it's verified as such. There are 3 ways that something RWBY related can be verified as a fact:

1 - Information is revealed on the show.

2 - Information is revealed in offical texts.

3 - Information is revealed by the writers, in explicit fashion.

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.