Wikipedia is not a crystal ball.

{{speculation}} and {{prophecy}} are not welcome on wikipedia. No articles about anticipated events are verifiable, because anticipated events are not reliable. They are not reliable, because they are not testable. Exceptional claims require exceptional references. :Category:Reliable Agents of Prediction is very small. Forward-looking documents and statements should be restricted to events that are almost certain to happen, considering how many times they happened and resources devoted to making them happen again.

This policy made strict does not mean deleting entire articles: Where wasteful prophecy is established on wikipedia:

  1. Create a destination article with same content, and internal links made external, unless a very similar article already exists on future, which makes merjer processing complicated, taking several smaller transfers.
  2. Put a link to article history on encyclopedia into talk page of future's.
  3. Bookmark the current version of the article to redirect. That will be one with an inferior name or location.
  4. Install an external #REDIRECT[http://future.wikia.com/...] (Blank the rest); one pair of square brackets.
  5. Realize that other languages are the biggest loose ends to deal with, and mirroring translation pointers is something you can do without knowing languages other than your mother tongue.
Merjerz within wikipedia are not much easier. The only external redirection that I can find in wikipedia is a wikt: prefix. A future: prefix should become. For now, redirections are links.

Wiki-future, WP:IRC, talk pages, WP:E-MAIL and USENET are fine venues for writing about future, and it does not belong on wikipedia until it is a fact, so suspect sentences that contain words like "would", "could", "may", and "might", because they should tell you what makes them likely, almost now.

Should Wikipedia:CRYSTAL continue with exception? No, because as it is now, a lot of exceptions wer already made. What about explicit mentions of the future?
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, then maybe you do not understand the situation.
Few if any rules are more sensible and pivotal than this to keep wikipedia verifiable and divide it from other media. Applying it to games and fiction is a big part of this. See if you hav a portable Login, because it is hard to start an article about fiction that will finish with facts.

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