User blog comment:DancePowderer/No Room at the Inn, Deductive Reasoning/@comment-34981281-20150612135739

As many of you know, I chill around r/One Piece as a representative of our Wiki.

The other day, a guy was pretty pissed off about this. I think there's a very specific way Wikis have to handle this situation. When something is believed to be true by the characters, then it is fact to us. With all the plot twists of One Piece, anything could turn out to be a lie or misdirection. We could find out next chapter that Dragon isn't Luffy's biological dad. Hey, we didn't see them fuck, right? But since the characters believe it to be true, so must we. Even though Sabo turned out to be alive, if we stated that he might have been alive on the wiki, it would have been incorrect. The exception of this rule being when the audience sees proof to the contrary.

Of course, it's always a gray area. Law was assumed dead not too many chapters ago. It would have sucked if we had to edit his page to dead for just a week. But with Trebol, I believe Oda had the clear intent of us figuring out Trebol's fruit. I don't think it's supposed to be interpretative. I think he showed us all the clues so we could see what was obviously implied. He's a paramecia.