Board Thread:Rumor discussion/@comment-38565009-20200615015308/@comment-25234510-20200710053422

Elliottw wrote: Thinkbui wrote: Would there be any harm in starting articles on Elite 2.0 with what we know now and then add info on the darts as it comes to light? ... it is getting kind of annoying looking in a dozen different places when it could be consolidated into one location. This wiki has always been one of the few places in the NIC where facts, fiction, and fantasy aren't co-mingled to the point where it's difficult to sort them out. This has required a lot of perseverance, peer review, and effort by our contributors, members, and mods. With the exception of the forum where we foster speculation (and label it as such), nerfers have always known they can come here to get the truth.

In my opinion, the problem with creating articles about blasters that haven't been released and have little to no official information, is there's not much to print once you weed out all the speculation. We saw this recently when we speculated about the Flyte. The next thing we knew, other sites were quoting our speculation as published facts, and posting photoshops as leaked pics.

So no, don't speculate about Elite 2.0 in the articles. Don't publish two facts and call it an article. Don't embellish. And if all you can say in the Nerf Elite 2.0 Turbine article is it's a proposed blaster that shoots darts, then that's not an article. Leave that stuff on the forum. I certainly understand that there's often a fine line that needs to be walked when maintaining an encyclopedic wiki. What's unclear to me is how an article about Elite 2.0 with a brief note about how it's the successor to Elite 1.0 and a list of the blaster names as broken wikilinks is out of bounds while articles about things we currently know less about like the Ultra Dorado is permissible. I'm nowhere near as outspoken about it as Sdsparks apparently is, but I am hoping to understand what sets an Elite 2.0 article apart from existing articles that are based solely on unverified leaked information.