Dozierverse Wiki:Conjecture

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**Conjecture**, in the Dozierverse Wiki, is speculation and inferences based on something other than the official sources or sources otherwise considered as valid.

## Purpose

The goal of the Dozierverse Wiki is to present official information about the Dozierverse in an encyclopedic format. Therefore, using fanon and/or material from DC Comics as a means of filling in knowledge gaps or answering unanswered questions is not allowed. Deductions based on scientific facts or basic common sense are allowed, as long as these deductions are clearly presented as such and never labelled as official information.

It's a known fact that the Dozierverse is largely based on characters, events, and places that originally appeared in comic books produced by DC Comics. While the creative teams involved in the franchise use these comic books as a primary resource to lay the foundations of its characters and storylines, they use those elements at their own discretion and convenience. When a specific detail pertaining to a place, character or event is not mentioned, accounted or implied on-screen (or off-screen by the developers) one should not assume that those unstated details coincide with the comics.

At the Dozierverse Wiki, our main concern is to register only facts, leaving unspecified details out of the information provided. Although, there are exceptions.

## Exceptions

Given the scope of the Marvel Cinematic Universe vs. the amount of background details unaccounted for, we are compelled to resort to a modicum of conjecture to circumvent certain conventions and impediments.

Conjecture is permitted in three situations:

* Names for characters, groups, places, and objects, confirmed to exist within the fictional universe of the franchise, that deserve to have an article, but have not been fully named otherwise. This situation particularly includes the full names of characters adapted from Marvel Comics whose full name is not totally revealed.
* The full names of individuals, and the name of the species they belong to, in order to fill the character infobox.
* Information regarding a particular character or event that is revealed for an alternate universe counterpart, and it is not affected by the points of divergence that led to that alternate universe.

### Article Names

Naming characters, places and objects is absolutely necessary, at least, to create an article for the "existing but unnamed" elements of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Following the Naming Policy of the wiki, these names must match the description given in dialogue as accurately as possible. (eg. Backscatter X-Ray Eye Implant; Theta Brain-Wave Frequency Machine; Atmospheric Moisture Freezing Device). Once the article is created, this name will be the one used to refer to the subject across all articles in the wiki.

### Races and Species

Most human beings appearing in the Dozierverse are never identified as such on-screen, which means that, for example, identifying Batman as "Human" is a mere assumption. Therefore, it is suitable to assume that a character that appears to be a human being is an actual human being unless there is clear evidence to the contrary.

A similar approach can be used for other races, given the context of their appearances in the Dozierverse, who all have human-like features.

This also takes into account the race that a character may belong to in the original comics. Every character is assumed to belong to the same race as they belong to in the original DC Comics Universe, unless explicit evidence to the contrary. This also takes into account the cases where a character's race is changed via a retcon of their established origins, if the version presented in the Dozierverse is more akin to that pre-retcon origin than the retconned one.

Usually, if that particular race has not been identified in the Dozierverse, the race in question would not be granted an article or a category, and its mention would be limited to the character's infobox.

## Rename Template

Unlike other wikis, the Marvel Cinematic Universe Wiki advises against the spread of maintenance templates, as it is its purpose to work every article to such an state of quality that makes those templates unnecessary.

One of this templates is the Template:Rename, whose use in the Marvel Cinematic Universe should be limited to discuss the current conjectural name of a specific article and propose a name better matching this site's policies.

### Use

If any editor wants to propose a rename for an article with a conjectural name, the Template:Rename must be added to the article, and the new name must be proposed and discussed in the associated talk page. If a consensus to keep the current name or to change to the newly proposed name is not reached, a vote can be proposed following what established in the Voting Policy.

Of course, if a conjectural article is moved following the reveal of its actual in-universe name, or to fix any spelling mistake in the name, the whole discussion and voting process can be skipped.

If the page is decided to be renamed, any administrator o content moderator who actually performs the move must make sure that all links point to the correct destination using this special page.