Speculative Troping cleanup

I've noticed that there is no general, dedicated thread for cleaning up Speculative Troping on the wiki. Common variants include:

• Attempting to extrapolate a storyline to events that haven't happened yet, or answer questions that are not resolved in canon.
• Speculating about possible Audience Reactions, based solely on one's personal opinion.
• Attempting to guess the creator's intent, when not obvious or confirmed by Word of God. For example, identifying a character as an Expy without substantial similairty. (That trope has its own cleanup thread.)
• Speculating about unreleased works (has its own cleanup thread).
• Armchair diagnoses of mental disorders.
• In Real Life sections, attempting to predict the future or speculating about theoretical physics (unless said extrapolation is supported by the scientific literature). Tropes that are inherently speculative should be brought up at Real Life section maintenance, since these fall under the scope of NoRealLife.Impossible In Real Life.
• Certain types of gossip about real people.
• Applying certain tropes, such as Unintentional Period Piece, to instances that are too recent to tell if they are examples. (Refer to "No Recent Examples Please" cleanup if you think a trope falls into this category.)

Speculative troping of the first three categories can go to the work's WMG subpage, unless it is already disproven. See also Wild Mass Cleanup, which involves WMG cleanup.

Edited by LaundryPizza03 on Oct 25th 2020 at 3:47:50 AM

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