Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-24325144-20150106201659/@comment-6858361-20150110012420

Locksmith190 wrote: The point of a wiki is to provide factual information about a topic. That being said speculation has no place in the articles, however a link on that page can be posted to a speculation subarticle. The reader then doesn't have to see information that may or not be true unless they choose to. This would allow any speculative information to be added to the article without cluttering it up with information that is of no solid truth. I like the idea of keeping the main pages factual, but the phrase "just speculation" is too dismissive of people putting pieces together and hurts the spirit of contribution. I have some experience with people shooting things down for no apparent reason, and if we let people delete things outright rather than simply have their 1 vote, then contributers can't say what seems obvious to them and we stop being detectives. But I do see a problem with stating something as a fact when that something is based on reason/thinking alone. An additional idea to throw out there is that we phrase these statements differently. We could have a section intended for less certain statements, which would be stated explicitly as such. That would be a good place for the voting idea, though the ideas on the talk page should be discussed on its own talk page and locked like wikipedia does when there are disputes, until it seems resolved. So the section might be called "Possible Connections", and the statements would sound like "Hermaeus Mora's tentacled appearance and deity status could be an homage to the fictional tentacled deity Cthuhlu, created by H.P. Lovecraft." The thing is, the Cultists and Miraak and even Saden's Journal appear to be themed after The Call Of Cthulhu. So there would have to be a discussion before somebody just puts "Miraak is themed after Cthulhu" on a page. We could hide this section at all times with a "Show Speculation" button.