Thread:Shabook/@comment-24675861-20141216162527/@comment-112155-20141216164759

But explaining that is not the point of Robert Coulson's article... That's why the quote has links to whoever said and its source, in this case, the episode, to consult how Edison Po, the autor of the quote, knew about that, because it is an important fact in Po's biography, but not in Robert's.

As Uskok added to the Layout Guide, Character's articles must be written from the character's point of view, mentioning facts about the characters. And simply being mentioned by someone else to a third person is NOT AN IMPORTANT EVENT IN SOMEONE's LIFE. On the other hand, sometimes, the MENTIONED EVENT is important, and THE MENTIONED EVENT is what must be added to the character's article, but NOT THE MENTION ITSELF.

Choose any historical character you like, for example, Benjamin Franklin. I'm sure that sometime in your life, a teacher in the school or high school mentioned to you Franklin's famous experiment with the kite, the key and the lightninin. Now imagine you are writing Benjamin Franklin's article.

What would you say it was an important fact in Ben Franklin's biography
 * 1) The experiment (a.k.a. the MENTIONED FACT)
 * 2) The history lesson where your teacher mentioned it to you (a.k.a. the MENTION ITSELF)

That is the same reasoning that must be done when writing in-universe articles about the character, as opposed to the out-of-universe Appearances sections in the episode articles.

In-universe, it doesn't matter if we viewers learnt about a fact witnessing as it occured in a film/tv series or if we learnt about it with a mention, what it matters is that the event itself happened, and that's what in-universe articles must reflect...