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However, there are some occasions where theories and speculation is acceptable. These are the instances when the article at hand would be ''critically incomplete'' without the speculation.
For example, for a long time, the true nature of [[
Thus, the golden rule of speculation is: '''if the article would not be considered content-complete without this speculative information, include the speculation.'''
Generally, most speculative material will be [[Cosmere]]-based, as a quote on one thing could have clear ramifications on other planets or magics entirely. Noncosmere works, however, are not excluded from these policies on speculative content.
*Be a generally well accepted theory in the community
Do not state things as fact if they are not fact. Use words like "this may be that," not "this is that." Word choice is essential so that a reader does not mistake speculation for absolute fact
In other words, when you are using speculative material it not only needs to be obvious that this is not fact, but also, you want to include a ludicrous quantity of quotes from the books, so as to sound very reasonable to a reader. What speculation needs to do is open up reasonable possibilities in a reader's mind, not tell them absolute facts.
Avoid referring to specific fans, and try and keep speculative material as in-universe as possible. Sometimes it will not be able to keep it totally from an in-universe perspective, but try to do so.
==Entire pages as speculation==
In some cases, an entire article may have {{t|theory}} at its top. When doing so, the editor is implying there may be some leaps in absolute fact, but are nonetheless important to get correct.
An example of this would be the [[
The article is written in such a way that it is impossible to not realize that there is speculation going on, but the article tries to make as much sense of the topic as possible, given what we know. Note how
That is how one writes theoretical content in articles properly: by staying very close to the facts, and by being essential to the quality to the wiki.
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