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Flipside:
Personally, I can see it generating a lot of arguments and disagreements, since, if we can't argue over canon, we will argue of what is the most viable non-canon. The Shivan Manifesto is an excellent example, there are long-time members of this board who think it is very good, and others that think it is full of holes. It's probably better imho, to keep that kind of thing to the boards and stay away from conjecture, even if it's clearly marked as 'Non-canon' you can be pretty sure at some point or another people are going to say things like 'That campaign is wrong, because it says in the Wiki.....etc'. It's the same risk as suggesting that Inferno is the closest thing to FS3, it isn't, it's Inferno, a bloody good user made campaign, but nothing else.

Shade:
My two cents worth...

Fan made campaign backgrounds/stories/ships/whatever:

I'd prefer a 'User-made campaigns' section located below all the canon stuff where each campaign could then have it's own area, with any of the subcategories found in the canon sections as desired by the authors. So you could have, say, a 'User-made campaigns->Mindgames->Ships' category where the ships of that campaign can be found, and the same for background, weapons etc.

Since each campaign is under the user campaigns category, and the articles for each are seperated, it's clear to anyone using the wiki that it's non-canon, and also that what info is true for one campaign will likely not be true for others. I suppose you could say that these sections would be 'canon' within the context of their specific campaigns, but nowhere else. Call it campaignon if you like :p

Speculation based on canon, but not related to a campaign:

This has no place in the wiki in my opinion. This would include things like the shivan manifesto, as it is not tied to any campaign and is simply an attempt to make some sense out of the Shivans based on a mix of known facts and assumptions. But if for some reason it -has- to be there, I think it should be in a section appripriately titled 'random speculation', 'fan theories' or something similar. But I still don't think any of it belongs there. If it had to be anywhere, my preference would be a 'fan fiction' section off the main page, and not the wiki.

TopAce:
I voted yes. It should be allowed when indicated.

Wanderer:
I think Shades approach might be a good one...

I would probably toss in all fan theories about Shivans into a single page - separate from the canon shivan page - every one with perhaps one or two lines of pros and cons (or short description) about the particular theory and then a link to some distant far off site. But so that even the Shivan Manifesto would be mentioned, clearly indicated as non-canon material, and most importantly commented in the fswiki.

knn:
That is exactly how the current SM article looks like. The text is not there, just a summary, criticism with a link to an article with a detailed list of flaws, and a link to some distant far off site with the text. And IMO that's a good way to include it, because it explains what the SM is, it does not use the SM to explain what the shivans are.

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