User talk:SimplyCharles

if you Naruto Wiki people, like, get a notice for each new page started, um I have some questions that need answering...please people...

Question 1: Speculations
I was reading the rules, and it said no fanon, first of all what EXACTLY is fanon because my friend said it was made up information but I want to be sure... and for that matter say there is an unidentified charecter (or previously unidentified charecter) released in the anga, would it be considered fanon type the speculations that other people had about that charecter?(EX: Tobi, people thought he was Obito, Danzo and many other...s)

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Answers
This is Daniel Friesen's answer to question 1...Thanks Dantman Special:Recentchanges gives a full list of all recent edits. It's basically why it's possible to easily catch any vandalism to the wiki and let anyone who wants to contribute help out. Firstly which rules are you referring to? We have some generic residual pages. The community never quite gets into the big discussions on MoS's or various policies, so 90% of the policies are just passed around by the community and learned. "Fanon" is a bit of a misnomer around Wikia. The actual definition for fanon is information that cannot be confirmed with any canon source, but for some reason or another all fans agree that it is a fact. So, cannon could be something like we know that Naruto's hair color is yellow because that's the color used in the official canon shows. But pretend that Naruto hadn't come out on series yet, and only was in B&W manga with no drawings of him in color. If for some reason everyone believed that his hair was red, perhaps because some fan drew him in that color, and no-one disputed it despite it having no cannon backing, then it would be considered fanon. Though the term "fanon" has an alternate misinterpretation around Wikia. It's also used to refer to anything made by fans (fanfics, fan drawings, roleplays, etc...) though, since we only cater to the actual series on the Narutopedia, I prefer to categorize anything like that as "fancruft" ;). But yes, as a wiki, or rather an encyclopedia we only go by what can be backed with canon sources, and avoid any assumptions. If there is some notable speculation or such, we might create a speculation section, or add the small bits of confirmed facts into the article so that the reader gets all the information and can assume things on their own and decide on what they want to believe. ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) current discussion Oct 14, 2008 @ 02:57 (UTC)

Thank You if you answered any of my questions, and I leave it up here for other people see the answer just incase they have the same question... Bold text