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What I advocate is exactly what that thread goes over. So thanks for pulling that one out.
What I advocate is exactly what that thread goes over. So thanks for pulling that one out.


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But when it comes to what you actually put in the lead, or elsewhere in the article, you stick very closely to what the sources say. Because this is a wiki, it's a simple necessity to name each article ''something'', so it's sometimes necessary to use the real-world name and then note in the BTS that it's not from the story. And that is not the same thing as assuming the DWU version of the real world thing has the same qualities or history.
But when it comes to what you actually put in the lead, or elsewhere in the article, you stick very closely to what the sources say. Because this is a wiki, it's a simple necessity to name each article ''something'', so it's sometimes necessary to use the real-world name and then note in the BTS that it's not from the story. And that is not the same thing as assuming the DWU version of the real world thing has the same qualities or history.
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What I advocate is exactly what that thread goes over. So thanks for pulling that one out.

Identification can be based on simple dictionary definitions, or the kind of baseline understanding that's taken for granted in a story's construction — particularly when it's a class of things that you're identifying, like a table or an iPhone or a pair of glasses. (That is, so long as the commonplace isn't identified within the narrative as something else.)

But when it comes to what you actually put in the lead, or elsewhere in the article, you stick very closely to what the sources say. Because this is a wiki, it's a simple necessity to name each article something, so it's sometimes necessary to use the real-world name and then note in the BTS that it's not from the story. And that is not the same thing as assuming the DWU version of the real world thing has the same qualities or history.