Operation Harsh Doorstop Wiki:In Real Life

It is policy that under most circumstances, **In Real Life** information must not be used within the main body of an article including the Trivia section, and is only permitted in the introductory section at the beginning of the article page. This means that any in-game inaccuracies relating to real world behaviours (i.e. physics) or representations of weapons, equipment, vehicles, factions etc. are not considered notable additions to articles. This rule applies to anachronisms, historical inaccuracies, and perceived gameplay omissions that are based on references to the real world, and applies regardless of however major or minor the felt level of such inaccuracies.

While it is understandable that real world comparisons may be interesting or considered as trivia in their own right, the Operation: Harsh Doorstop Wiki is foremost used for the accessing of information about the Operation: Harsh Doorstop franchise, and not as a source of information about the real world. The addition of real world information that is not reflective of in-game content can be lead to confusion about what is actually represented in-game. A perceived inaccuracy may in fact be an intentional design choices by the developers for the sake of balance or economising assets, and thus not necessarily inaccurate. In other cases, such additions may make the trivia sections of weapon or vehicle pages into a long list of technical information, effectively useless to the primary wiki audience of people looking for that pertaining to gameplay only.

The following examples are policy violations of OHD:IRL and would be removed:

* "The SKS's reloading animation in-game is incorrect as there is no need to pull the slide back twice after reloading the magazine."
* "The P38 Luger, despite being used by the Germany (WW1) faction, was not developed during World War I."
* "Any pistol in *Operation: Harsh Doorstop* should be unable to pierce even pistol rated vests, and wouldn't have a chance in hell of penetrating ceramic strike faces worn by the military."

The general principle is if your edit contains the words "in real life", it will most likely be violating this policy.

There are some exceptions concerning such IRL information in the main article body. Articles which are directly related to real life are allowed to bypass this policy, such as articles about the individual *Operation: Harsh Doorstop* game (eg. *Operation: Harsh Doorstop*) and their developers (eg. Drakeling Labs). Trivia notes regarding sources and/or quotes from official Drakeling Labs employees that relate to real life, which may for example include references to the real operation of a weapon or real-world event that inspired a location, are also allowed in their respective pages, although these Trivia notes **must be sourced** or they will be removed. Furthermore, inaccuracies that were specifically stated to be mistakes by developers and/or later corrected is considered notable.

Ultimately this policy is in place to retain this wiki's focus on the games themselves. Other websites may have their own policies that specifically allows for or encourages the comparison between games and real life, such as IMFDB.