User blog comment:Neo Bahamut/Criticism is Not an Insult/@comment-1038387-20140501122739

What wiki is this about? It's a long wall of text that could definitely do with a better introduction.

I definitely agree that you shouldn't take a wiki's word for it, and if possible, check with the cited source. And always cite a source when you make an absolute, non-obvious statement (so not, "X has black hair", but things like "X is 5 foot 8" or "X was raised a methodist but later became presbyterian" need a source)

However, mistakes still seep through. Perfection doesn't exist in others, and definitely not in you. If you do not acknowledge the fact that you might have mistakes, you'll never improve. It never hurts to question sources on controversial issues. Sometimes, there's a conflict in sources. Is it a continuity mistake or a retcon? Or an out-of-continuity joke?

As for bias and speculation, it's really hard to be unbiased. We all perceive things in our own way. On one of my wikis, we had this horrible shipping page that really needed a cleanup. I worked hard, tried to be as neutral as possible... and then one of the creators of the franchise calmly told me how far off I was. People have a tendency to read between the lines, but there's only white space there.