User blog comment:AnonymousAnomani/Any wikia admins are generally considered biased towards any and all wiki users and will not hesitate to write off anything deemed speculation./@comment-7805464-20180707065312/@comment-957629-20180707105904

Speculation is when you make an assertion but cannot list a point of reference in the story where the story states that it is a fact. Even if the speculation later turns out to be true, which is neither here nor there. because information added to articles should be cited. That's how professional articles work with citation and reference.

I will give you an example. We are big Harry Potter fans in our house and would wait in line at midnight on release night to get the books.

When I finished the sixth Harry Potter book I said to my bros, "I bet RAB is Regulus Black." Even though later, when the seventh book was released, I was proven right, what I did there was speculation. This is because it was not released yet and wasn't story canon at that point in time.

The truth of the matter is what was later revealed is irrelevant, it was still speculation because in the first six books I couldn't point to a paragraph or page where it was stated that RAB was Regulus. I went by what I assumed to be true based on what I knew: the initials matched and all we knew was that he joined Voldemort but regretted his actions. Sirius assumed he was a coward and didn't have the stomach for it and didn't know how he died, he just disappeared.

Same with Obito, when the theories were flying around that he was Tobi, that's all they were, theories. Until the Manga revealed that it was actually Obito, even though it was Obito, until the Manga states that it was, it's speculation.

Or here's a big speculator people had "Ichigo and Rukia are in love" and not one person could prove this for years. They would whine and moan that it didn't matter that it was never stated in the Manga that they were in love, it was "obvious" and we were silly for not recognising it. They would add it into articles and whine and moan that it was true based on their perspective of the story and when we removed it because they could not provide a citation for it, we would get abuse. And that very common speculation, that led to a lot of abuse for our team, was later being proven false.

That is the only way to ensure that all info in a Wiki is correct, via citation and proof. Like, for example, i think Ganju's uncle is Isshin. However at no point in the story (for whatever reason) is it stated that Isshin was their uncle. Even though it is probably likely, until it is stated in either a databook or the canon Manga (ie written by Kubo) then it's speculation.

Thus, to ensure all info is correct and verifiable is to only allow it to be added into or articles where a reference can be provided that proves the info to be true. There was nothing in the Naruto manga that proved Obito was Tobi until the manga revealed it to be true, thus can or shouldn't be added in until this happens.

If you make an assertion, prove it. Otherwise it is illogical.