Thread:Alucard10001/@comment-4576906-20150902221211/@comment-2017262-20150903224324

You don't have to remove it if you don't want to; I don't really care. If you hadn't asked for clarification, I would have never known it had been reverted; I'm not even sure if I would have ever looked at the article again. I visited the article on a whim, skimmed it, found what appeared to be a grossly informal bit of speculation the likes of which are pruned all the time from all the other wikis that I occasionally edit, and removed it. That's all.

(Let me preface this second bit by letting you know that I'm not trying to start an argument or be insulting. I'm simply disagreeing.)

Now, while I don't particularly care if that bit stays or goes, I do have a general problem if the inclusion of something so baseless in an encyclopedia article doesn't raise a red flag with an editor. Speculating upon available evidence and drawing potential conclusions is one thing, but there is absolutely no valid reason to even assume that Sesshomaru could block the Wind Scar with a normal sword. None. There is no evidence anywhere in the series to suggest it, and there is no "inductive reasoning" that can be applied to the question other than "he's powerful, so maybe he could do it because this other powerful guy could". By that standard, I could add a bit to the article about Inuyasha maybe being able to block a Wind Scar with a normal sword, or the Inu no Taishō, or Shishinki, or Naraku, or any other powerful demon/entity in the series. But there is no evidence anywhere to suggest that any of them could do it, so it would be pure speculation, the likes of which belongs on a fan site or a message board. If something has no basis in fact, then it shouldn't be in an encyclopedia article, and if this wiki's policy towards wild speculation is so relaxed that people can add things like the bit we've been discussing and have an editor defend it, then someone should probably take another look at those rules.