Unsourced WoB

[Moogle]

On the Adonalsium page, there is the following:

 

For example, the Mistborn series has powers based on metal, since the two Shards used to create the Mistborn world are physical in nature (Ruin and Preservation).

 

This was added back in 2011 by an unregistered user. (Proof.)

 

As far as I know, there's no WoB saying this, and I've not been able to find it - can someone add a citation, or remove this information if there is no such WoB? I'm not familiar with Coppermind editing rules.

[Joe ST he/him]

Thank's for bringing this up, it'd be nice for it to be sourced, but before it is its going to get a [Disputed] warning.

[Guest]

I'd guess he did not say that, based on number 17 on this list.

http://www.theoryland.com/intvsresults.php?kwt='shards'#17

[Meg]

I'd tend to say that whole sentence is not only (to be) disputed but wrong. It kind of implies that Ruin and Preservation were "metallic entities."

 

I would like to delete that sentence but I don't dare .

 

 

Aren't all of the Shardholders physical by nature? At least the known ones were humans. BS implied that all Shardholders were of an "intelligent species" which BS would call people (http://www.theoryland.com/intvmain.php?i=1078#25). *Babbling around: I'd think a dragon is intelligent too. (Anyways it would be physical)* And I'm under the impression that intelligence and sentience without a body to be contained in are not really permanently able to keep hold of a Shard (meaning the raw power) though I don't have a quote at hand.

 

As a side note: I updated the Adonalsium page a small bit.

 

edit January 18th 2015: I did delete that sentence because I'm quite sure the author messed things up with information from The Hero of Ages chapter 57 epigraph.

 

Another side note: Thus far I haven't been under the impression that each and every sentence in the wiki must be "backed up" with a WoB. I thought the wiki a fan-made information site (surely with as much sources as possible).

Would/could it be necessary to point that out on the main page so that it's made clear that there could be errors or inconsistencies? It's Moogle's title to this thread that made me write this.

Edited January 18, 2015 by Meg