Board Thread:Administrative Requests/@comment-4820209-20140508045005/@comment-4403232-20140508143141

BenRG wrote: Perhaps add notes next to each bullet if this has since been disproved, identifying the episode in question but that is sufficient. As Puff says, this is a very good way to show how the fans viewed the characters and how this compares to what happened. PuffDragon wrote: it also is a display of the historic evolution of knowledge on the board I personally feel this is a very bad idea, as posting information confirmed to be false is pretty pointless, and could easily become flooded with Wild Mass Guessing. All articles and pages on Wikia have a history function which logs every change and edit, showing the differences, additions, and removals of content. If you want to see how views and thoughts towards characters have changed, it's an excellent way to do so.

While I'm unsure if it's necessary to completely remove all speculation from all articles (though I have no objection to doing so), trimming of the speculation is definitely needed. For instance, the speculation on the number of rounds Yang fired in the Yellow Trailer on Ember Celica's page isn't the best place for that investigation. This also applies to the Trivia sections of some pages, which are bloated with guesswork in some places too.

We already have a speculation forum board, and I see no issue with creating a WMG forum board if people would like to participate in such things.