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{{tl|Wikipediainfo}} '''should never be used on real world pages'''. It is meant for in-universe pages '''only'''. | {{tl|Wikipediainfo}} '''should never be used on real world pages'''. It is meant for in-universe pages '''only'''. | ||
It is not a substitute for writing an article of our own. We certainly don't want to link to [[wikipedia:The Dalek Invasion of Earth]] or [[wikipedia: | It is not a substitute for writing an article of our own. We certainly don't want to link to [[wikipedia:The Dalek Invasion of Earth]] or [[wikipedia:Verity Lambert]], and thereby lose our readers to wikipedia just because we haven't yet written our article as completely as we could. | ||
Rather, it is a way to give our readers an easy link to real world information about a topic ''within the DWU''. This allows curious readers to easily compare the real world subject with the way it was handled in the DWU. For instance [[Marco Polo]]'s biographical details in the DWU are substantively different than they are in the DWU. Moreover, there are many cases in the DWU where a real world subject, like ''[[Great Expectations]]'' or [[Bruce Springsteen]], is only mentioned in passing. We therefore don't have enough information from valid sources to write more than a few sentences. {{tl|wikipediainfo}} gives us a way to write about '''only''' what is covered in the DWU, but still give our readers quick access to the subject. | |||
==Error correction== | ==Error correction== | ||
Sometimes, the name of our articles are not precisely the same as those on Wikipedia. A proper link can be established by forcing a different spelling, so as to match an article name. For instance, we have an article called "[[football]]" on this wiki. If we were just to type | Sometimes, the name of our articles are not precisely the same as those on Wikipedia. A proper link can be established by forcing a different spelling, so as to match an article name. For instance, we have an article called "[[football]]" on this wiki. If we were just to type | ||