Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-4544033-20150326212135

This is a reviewing of Trivia of Speculative Nature Trivia Policy

Bluesonic1 brought up how many items in trivia contained un-sourced and speculative content. He noted several thoughts on the subject I ask you to read before commenting below.

One item of note is the advice from an admin on the Dark Souls wiki

Comicsilver wrote: If I may on the topic of real life trivia on articles, the community I'm an Admin for (The Dark Souls Wiki) faced as similar problem. We ended up agreeing on the following points to be our policy on trivia information pertaining to real life references:

The last sentence of the final point is irrelevant here, since this game was first written in English, so you can disregard that. Hope this helps!
 * Real life trivia points must be sourced to show legitimate factual backup to the theory.
 * The trivia must be relevant in some way to teaching about the article it is posted on.
 * The article and the real life "thing" must share more than a common name; however, having a name in common is a major part of connecting the two things. Similar qualities, such as design, voice actor, or weapons/armor in common will also qualify as legitimate trivia points. Literal translations from English to Japanese, or vice versa, will also qualify as trivia allowed on pages.

This made since to me, and I would propose we look at this as a possible adaption to our current policy on the matter. The only changes would need to be to the fourth one, as we have to worry about translations less then they do.

I encourage you all to read BlueSonics forum, as well before commenting here. Be sure to be respectful and civil. 