Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-24325144-20150106201659/@comment-6858361-20150109214439

Emperor Maximus wrote: Cosmicsilver 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:
 * 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.

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! I think this idea is pretty decent. With the examples I gave earlier of Dragonsreach and Hermaeus Mora, I don't believe Bethesda ever said that they took inspiration from, respectively, LOTR and the Cthulhu Mythos, but the similarities in design are too large to ignore.

Whiterun is almost exactly the same as Edoras in terms of layout, architecture, the palace, and in fact Jarl Balgruuf even looks a bit like Theoden! And Hermaeus Mora is the Prince of forbidden knowledge, and is a mass of tentacles, making him incredibly typical of the Cthulhu Mythos.

I've seen before in trivia secitons translations from other languages, and it makes sense to mention it there.

If a trivia section has claims that are very loosely based on simple speculation, then I do think they should be removed. If a claim has no sources supporting it, then how about it gets a voting system unless confirmed? I know that vandals and similar people will just vote it down for no reason, but I think that so many more people who see Hermaeus Mora and google "Cthulhu Mythos" if they don't know about it, will vote it up. If the up votes keep exceeding the down votes, then it stays. If not, it's deleted. It should be allowed to stay up for some weeks before being fatally judged, though, in order to get the votes in.