User talk:Protocol13

Thanks for the contributions, and welcome to Wiki 24! It's always good to have new editors in the off-season. In case you're curious, some changes were made to your edit at the Australia article. It is correct that Syndey is not the capital, and it's very good you fixed the error. But Syndey had to be re-inserted as just a city, because it was the only Australian city mentioned in the show. Another editor took out the references to "capital" and "Canberra" because neither was revealed on the show. This is called our "in-universe" article policy: we don't use main namespace articles for information that didn't come from the show, otherwise you'd have people inserting random population statistics into city articles, history lessons and religious stuff for Europe and the Middle East... and so on, our wiki would become a carnival of information that never came from 24.

It's hard to infer that policy with such a small article as Australia. Essentially, the only way Australia's article can grow, according to our policy, is if it's talked about or visited on the show, or if the facts are inserted into a "Background information and notes section". Also, please don't infer that all this is a reprimand, I just always tend to type long explanations. I appreciate that you took the time to read this, so drop any questions that might come to mind right here! – Blue Rook 16:31, 13 August 2008 (UTC)talk contribs