Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24081824-20160305040159/@comment-146.113.79.217-20160305073307

As someone who thinks the wiki has a tendency to put in a lot of information or tidbits just for the hell of it rather than if it's pertinent or necessary, I concur. Trivia should be for talking about things clarified from interviews or specific, obvious references to other stories or historical events or whatever else something could refer to. This wiki is supposed to be a guide to the chronicles, not a place for freewheeling wild mass guesses.

Honestly it feels like a lot of people like to put their theories or "ooh this is neat" moments in there because it has the laxest standards for largely fanon additions and gives them the biggest billboard for their thoughts.

Really, in my opinion anything with weasel words like "may be", "possibly", or "could be" should either be cut completely or rewritten. If it's not strong enough a connection to be able to say so definitively without being a lie, then it doesn't belong on there.

Example in Sateriasis' page:

"Gumina's nickname for him, Sati, is possibly derived from the Indian ritual Sati, where a widowed woman throws herself on her husband's funeral pyre."

This example cannot be rewritten as "Gumina's nickname for him is derived from the Indian ritual Sati" because there is absolutely no evidence for it whatsoever aside from the two names being similar--and there's not even a suggestion that it's derived from anything other than the simple shortening of his full name. Any other rewriting without claiming that the ritual is the root of the nickname would essentially run the lines of "these two things happen to sound the same".

Therefore, as this can't be written with more assertive language without being completely dishonest or pointless, it should be removed.

Versus this example on Banica's page:

"Banica, due to her occupation as a feudal lord who was believed to regularly drink blood and later be reimagined as a vampire centuries later, may be partially inspired by Vlad the Impaler."

The connections between Vlad and Banica as outlined in this trivia point are too strong to ignore, and the weasel words "may be partially inspired by" can simply be rewritten as "carries strong parallels to". This avoids making the dishonest claim of knowing authorial intent, but also points out pertinent information to the reader without waffling on it.

I don't know if I'm making my point well but basically I'm sick of the weasel words. Either something is relevant or it isn't. The usage of "may be" is too often used to justify painfully weak connections that don't have any place in a wiki page.