Help:Derived Facts

Derived Facts are semi-factual information that is not explicitly stated and is derived from facts that are explicitly stated with simple logic.

Recording Logic
Derived Facts can be wrong from either a missed counter-fact or newer facts that make it incorrect/obsolete. For this reason all Derived Facts should have the logic and the relevant explicitly stated facts recorded in a special reference called a Note.

Derived-Fact

The Reasoning should be kept as short as possible while retaining the easily flowing logic.

The most common use is setting up the relative-time of a Fanfic in official Cannon's Timeline. By using events that have or have-not happened in the frame of the Fanfic. Where the event is a explicitly stated fact (from Cannon) and the logic 'This is present in the Fanfic, so this Fanfic must occur after that event' would go in the reference.

Example
This story takes place after 9/11 Since the World Trade center was removed from the skyline on 9/11/01, the premise that this story takes place after. Now the Story Could also take place before 1966 when they were built, so we must be careful. In this case the World-at-Large is quite different between 2001+ and pre-1966 so it should be easy to spot which is which, and thus wasn't included in the reasoning.

Up Dating
The recording of the the logic and the relevant explicitly stated facts allow easy replacement of the Derived Fact by later authors. The following is a replacement of the above example

This story takes place after 2003

Requirements
The use of this tag, require a tag at the bottom of the page to list the special references or the page will return an error. This has been made simple, by including   to the bottom of the page.