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As far as I can tell, the "Unknown Shards" section is a collection of best-available-evidence. As much of this wiki relies on Word of Brandon rather than published book material, it seems somewhat unfair to ban metatextual speculation simply for lack of references. -- [[Guest:HoratioVonBecker|HoratioVonBecker]]
::While we do allow some speculation on pages, we do have a high bar of what is required for it. Things that Brandon has spoken about outside of the books to a degree where we can be ''reasonably'' certain '''or''' that have been made clear from the direction taken in the books, for example. But, referencing is a very big key to speculations sections and a good rule of thumb to use is if there is not something that can be easily referenced then there is not enough evidence to be added to the wiki. This isn't the only rule of thumb, but is definitely at least the first question that needs to be asked. I would recommend taking a look at our help page for [[Help:Speculation|Speculation]] - it has a lot of useful guidance but I think the one to point out here is speculation is included when '''the article at hand would be critically incomplete without the speculation.''' This doesn't necessarily mean that information is ''missing'' but more that we can't explain something else without touching on what hasn't been confirmed (eg. Trell and the potential they are Autonomy).
:: In terms of the Shard page - as Windrunner explained in 2016 there is no evidence that there is a Shard called Justice - this is still the case now. There is also no evidence that Kelsier is a Shard; Brandon has followed up that [https://wob.coppermind.net/events/460-shardcast-interview/#e14641 Kelsier does not have actual avatars] and this is just what he tells his minions. Regardless, parallels are not evidence nor are they citable or integral to this article. Core Cosmere articles also get held to a much higher standard because we get a ''lot'' of people trying to add baseless speculation and theories.
::We have been working on a clean up project of our pages with speculation as quite a few had baseless theories that aren't suitable for the Coppermind. There are still some out there that you might come across but they are not good examples of what speculation on the Coppermind should be like. For pages with good speculation sections to references I would recommend [[Miles Dagouter]] and [[Pact of the Seven Peaks]]. I hope that helps clear up the confusion. [[User:LadyLameness|LadyLameness]] ([[User talk:LadyLameness|talk]]) 00:08, 24 June 2021 (UTC)
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