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This wiki takes up the stance that all things are fictional ingame. However, some newer users aren't familiar with this. To finalize this AND clarify it to new editors, I have drafted up a policy that does seem suitable. And here it is:
Call of Duty Wiki:Real Life Information[]
On the wiki, all guns, vehicles, places and events are considered to be fictional. While we are aware many of the game's weapons and locations are based on real life, we must remember that Call of Duty Wiki is a wiki devoted to Call of Duty alone, and that it is not lots of Wikipedia articles. All facts and trivia must be taken from the game, and any real life information must be removed on sight. Repeated addition of real life information will be classified as VANDALISM. Users who wish to know the background of something should look up Wikipedia instead. Also, while on the subject, content from similar video games such as Battlefield: Bad Company 2 should NOT be included unless a direct reference is made.
What qualifies as Real Life information[]
- The history of the weapon, unless a direct line can be seen in the game, such as with the AUG series.
- The ammo type used, as far the wiki goes, a gun only fires bullets. (With some exceptions).
- Any characters not featured in-game, Hitler has his own article on Wikipedia, he doesn't need one here.
- Any facts that aren't needed, for example, we don't need to know that Stalingrad was renamed to Volgograd after the Cold War.
- Any aspects of a gun, place or object that are wrong in-game, most players don't care the SCAR-H's iron sights are back-to-front.
- The full names of a weapon, most players only want to find out the basics of their gun, not that the Barrett .50cal is really called the M82A2.
While I admit it is yet another policy, it isn't one that generally interferes with most user's experiance on the wiki, and with the large amount of users who will come with Black Ops, I think it is only fitting that it will serve benificial results.
Smuff 18:31, September 27, 2010 (UTC)
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Comment — The terms "RL info" and "treat all weapons as fictional" are pretty cut and dry. The vast majority of people that add RL info are ignorant of our policy regarding it. This policy is a solution to a problem that doesn't exist. Darkman 4 18:57, September 27, 2010 (UTC)
- Agreed. Most violators are just IPs with no idea that there are rules and everyone just jumps down their throats. Where's COD:AFG?
Rambo362
- Here are two examples of what I'm talking about: Talk:PM-63 and User_talk:Isnipezzgood. As you can see, they added RL info because they didn't know it was forbidden, not because they thought the rule was hazy or whatever.
This is pointless, it is already in policy. The only problem being that the smaller users have no clue of it's being. Dolten
Let's Talk 22:07, September 27, 2010 (UTC)
I'd be all for more of a crackdown on the AFG policy personally. 
14:15, September 29, 2010 (UTC)
Closed - Nobody voted and discussion didn't go any where. Darkman 4 22:40, October 24, 2010 (UTC)