This page describes one of Red Dead Wiki's policies and guidelines
All users are expected to follow policy, except where it would damage the wiki. If you have any questions, suggestions, or complaints, please post them on the talk page.
Trivia sections are allowed on all pages. However, there are rules for what is and is not trivia.
Also, trivia may never be more than three sentences long.
The following is considered as trivia:
- Oddities - For instance "As Marshal Leigh Johnson escorts John Marston to his cell, he does not put the keys in the door, but the cell door still opens, implying the cell door has no lock."
- Errors - For instance, "when teslaraptor has the desert eagle equipped during the cutscene in the mission "End of Humanity," he will take it out of his holster as he will all other guns, but a duplicate will remain in the holster."
- Glitches - If there is more than one glitch mentioned in an article, the section "Glitches" with a detailed description must be added. This section should be a description, not a tutorial.
- Confirmed related facts - Facts related to the development of the game or real world equivalents only when taken from game manuals or otherwise officially confirmed by Rockstar. For example, "the Mission San Meland in Sunset Canyon was named for Red Dead Revolver artist Chris Meland, to whom the game was dedicated in the credits." When noting real world equivalents, as for weapons, a single trivia item linking to Wikipedia is all that should be included.
The following is not considered to be trivia:
- References - References to outside media are not allowed, except in limited cases as covered under "Confirmed related facts," above. For instance, references such as "this weapon was used in The Wild Bunch to kill five cowboys in three seconds" are not allowed, as such has nothing to do with the Red Dead series.
- The Red Dead series takes cues from both movie westerns and the real history of the West. As such, many characters, events, and locations from the games will naturally bear a resemblance to characters, events, and locations from movies or history. These should not be noted as trivia except when confirmed by Rockstar or when very strongly supported by evidence. In such instances, a reference link must be included to the confirmation or the evidence must first be included on the talk page to allow for discussion.