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Revision as of 17:03, 16 January 2014
This poll is about if adding fictive material should be allowed to what extend.
Currently there is no consensus about this topic and multiple pages containing fictive material exist. Non-fiction is anything which is provided by the game, real-world physics or can be assumed like mentioning of IKEA in Category:RKEA Inc. or MPEG in Category:Moving Parts Experts Group.
This poll is not about fiction in userspace (any page beginning with User:… or User talk:…) and in tutorials.
Contents
Arguments
Pro fiction
- Currently nothing here, feel free to add if reasonable
Contra fiction
- It can be hard for readers to distinguish between non-fiction and fiction
- Who decides what to write?
Distinguishability
For an inexperienced reader it can be difficult to distinguish between non-fiction and fiction. This is a problem because this wiki explains how KSP works so readers usually come here to get an explanation for various effects.
It is possible to use templates like {{Fiction}} to mark articles or sections about fiction but this can be applied every time. For example when within a section only a part of it is fiction. For example:
| “ | Bill Kerman as happy as a kerbal should be in Eva outside the Reco Space Station in the good old days when he worked for Insular Inc. — Article, about Bill Kerman as of 02:44, 16 January 2014 (UTC) |
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Another problem is when linking to a section of a fictive article. For example previous revisions of Crew had sections about all three default kerbals. When now someone wanted to link to Bob Kerman the author would use Crew#Bob Kerman to link to Bob. The problem here is, that this will jump over the fictive warning. A reader might not notice that and think the information there are real.
Authorship
One different problem with fiction is that this is wiki. Obviously there is no author and other might and will edit pages. The question here is then, who decides what should be left in the article. This could lead to an edit war but different to non-fictional articles it might not be possible to determine which version should be used if it is about the artistic content.
Votes
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Eligibility
To avoid using sock puppets only users with an account created prior to the 16th January 2014 00:00 UTC are eligible. Account created since are eligible if they made at least non-fictional edits in two different articles.
Pro fiction
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Contra fiction
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Don't accepting this poll
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