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! style="width: 33%; color: #800;" | | ! style="width: 33%; color: #800;" | Too literal | ||
! style="width: 33%; color: #080;" | Good | ! style="width: 33%; color: #080;" | Good | ||
! style="width: 33%; color: #800;" | Too fictional | |||
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| Real world perspective | | style="text-align: center;" | Real-world perspective | ||
| | | style="text-align: center;" | Mixed perspective | ||
| | | style="text-align: center;" | In-universe perspective | ||
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| style="text-align: center;" | "[[Burgeoning Spiderwort]]s are fictional, virtual plants that debuted in the video game ''[[Pikmin 2]]''." | | style="text-align: center;" | "[[Burgeoning Spiderwort]]s are fictional, virtual plants that debuted in the video game ''[[Pikmin 2]]''." | ||
| style="text-align: center;" | "Burgeoning Spiderworts are plants that debuted in ''Pikmin 2''." | | style="text-align: center;" | "Burgeoning Spiderworts are plants that debuted in ''Pikmin 2''." | ||
| style="text-align: center;" | "Burgeoning Spiderworts are plants discovered by [[Captain Olimar]] during his second trip to [[PNF-404]]." | |||
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| It is obvious that the article won't be detailing any plants in real life, and that ''Pikmin 2'' is a game. Pikipedia is a wiki about a fictional franchise, so naturally, it should be expected for the content within to be fictional. Explaining that the subject is not real is almost condescending, and could add unnecessary [[wikipedia:Purple prose|purple prose]]. | | It is obvious that the article won't be detailing any plants in real life, and that ''Pikmin 2'' is a game. Pikipedia is a wiki about a fictional franchise, so naturally, it should be expected for the content within to be fictional. Explaining that the subject is not real is almost condescending, and could add unnecessary [[wikipedia:Purple prose|purple prose]]. | ||
| This example both explains the plants as if they were as canon as a real plant, while still implying that they're virtual. No extra words are needed, the text feels right from an in-universe perspective, and is still useful and comfortable to real world readers.. | |||
| Although this is true, it doesn't help the reader understand exactly when the plants debuted. The information is a part of the canon, but the readers are still humans in the real world, and it is more convenient to explain the information with that in mind. | | Although this is true, it doesn't help the reader understand exactly when the plants debuted. The information is a part of the canon, but the readers are still humans in the real world, and it is more convenient to explain the information with that in mind. | ||
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