This was a draft of a Wikipedia policy proposal. It was never submitted to the Wikipedia:Policy thinktank, and was never completed. Other editors took this particular ball and ran with it to create Wikipedia:Manual of Style (writing about fiction).
Wikipedia is an encylopaedia comprising descriptions of verifiable items, that exceed certain thresholds of distinction and stability, in this universe. When adding content to Wikipedia, please bear in mind the admonition to describe this universe.
For every popular science-fiction television series, every computer game, every series of dective novels, and so forth, there is a writer, quite often a team of writers, whose full-time or part-time job it is to create new "facts" (people, things, places, and events) in their given fictional universes. These "facts", after all, comprise the books, television programs, and movies that they sell. Often, these teams of writers refer to a series "bible", a central reference of the "facts" in the fictional universe, in order to render all of their stories self-consistent.
It is not the task of Wikipedia to become the amalgam of the series "bibles" of fictional universes.
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This does not preclude Wikipedia from discussion fictional universes.
The following does not discuss this universe at all, even tangentially, and is a (made up) example of the type of treatment of a subject that should thus be avoided for Wikipedia:
The following is a (made up) example of the type of treatment of a subject that is suitable for Wikipedia, because it discusses the fictional universe in respect of events, people, and things in this universe:
It is worthwhile noting that this latter form of article serves the fans better. Fans can, after all, find out the fictional universe account of events by the simple expedient of reading the books and watching the films and television programmes.
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