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Accepted
Quoting personal insider knowledge of production for an answer
The very short answer is yes, it's perfectly acceptable to claim to have personal or insider knowledge, although you may wish to cast your upvotes and downvotes according to how credible you consider ...
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What is the policy on unsourced quotes on SFF?
Is this worth arguing about? Just edit the damn thing.
Heck, you could've pulled the citation off of the same quote in another answer if you'd cared to. Anyone could've: the author of that answer, ...
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What is the policy on unsourced quotes on SFF?
What Shog9 says is excellent advice when you don't know, or there is no policy:
Don't let "the rules" stop you from doing what's right, doing what's useful. The rules exist to serve the community, ...
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Quoting personal insider knowledge of production for an answer
Is it allowed?
Yes. There is no requirement that answers be backed up by verifiable sources, quotations, or anything else. Answers that are impossible to understand, do not even address the question, ...
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Harry Potter vs Star Wars wiki
The Harry Potter wiki is a poor effort in multiple ways.
For instance, in this one page, the word 'may' appears 8 times, the word 'presumably' appears 3 times and the word 'apparently' also appears 3 ...
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Harry Potter vs Star Wars wiki
No idea about the Star Wars wiki, but the Harry Potter wiki has two main problems:
Their canon policy disagrees with the commonly accepted practice on this site. We tend to only accept Rowling's ...
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Harry Potter vs Star Wars wiki
It has more to do with the state of Canon for the various universes.
Star Wars has a definitive list of canonical works. Whereas Harry Potter is all over the place. So for one we can say, "yes, that ...
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