User blog comment:Dragon018/Real or Fake??/@comment-4938779-20130323043934/@comment-94.68.165.51-20130324181522

As the king of arrogance said above, death cases are indeed irrelevant and should be treated that way.

This wiki is correctly based on facts and not on speculations, so correctly Sabo is labeled as dead.

The real argument is if we are expecting a reverse on plot or not. Personally I'm expecting him to come back, because if he don't, his appearance in the series will be totally meaningless. Oda took the decision to create a character, build an nice story about him and then he decided to kill him suddenly? I don't think he had a reason to do that. Unlike Kuina, Ace, Tom and other dead characters Sabo has not fulfilled a reason to participate in the manga yet, so I believe Oda will "use" him later.

The most similar case about it is Coby. We left him in a crappy marine branch of East Blue and entered Grand Line. Although we knew that we would meet him again, because Coby hadn't fulfilled his role of existense yet.

The only reason for Oda to have introduced Sabo at first place, if he is actually planning to keep him dead, is because we had not a cleverer idea than Sabo to fill Luffy's childhood years.