User blog comment:The Great Duck INH/Speculation Template/@comment-27560932-20150825231712/@comment-26228779-20150826052750

I agree that that there shouldn't be pages with a lot of non-canon information or theories; however, that only works in principle, and by that I mean that just because people are told not to doesn't necessarily mean they won't do it. After all, the purpose of these templates is to point out issues in a page, not just categorize. And I will admit that I haven't seen anything outside of the fnaf that are really bad. However, I haven't really explored a great deal of the other pages so I can't really say one way or the other. I will admit though that FNAF is a ridiculously extreme example. Just seeing all the craziness that people post and volatile it gets is a very clear indicator that nobody really knows /everything/ with it.

However like I said, that's an extreme example. Original Research (which is the closest term I can find on Wikipedia) is something that is used when people write all the time. Very basic deduction and inferences are examples. For instance, one might write an overall description and get all the physical details correct but give a biased view of their personality rather than saying how people in the story view them (or what the author says since Word of God /is/ the ultimate say so unless they're direct quoting. Then you should make they remembered correctly). People might also describe an event or plot synopsis and include details that weren't ever mentioned in the work. Once again, they might not appear out of place and make sense overall however it might be something we never see that happens "in the background", and so while mentioning it makes sense, giving an in-depth description does not.

I hope this ramble makes sense. I know I wrote quite a lot.