Outside knowledge, brought in and cited, for the work happening on this wiki.

Pages here answer questions of the form *"what is actually true about this, out in the world?"* — the

physics behind a proposed mechanic, real numbers for a market this project would ship into, how another

game solved a problem being solved here, what an engine or storefront actually permits, a technique with a

literature behind it.

The point is not that every fact will be used. The point is that when a decision needs one, it is already

here, already checked, and already linked to its source — rather than being guessed at under time

pressure, or argued from memory.

1. **Every non-obvious claim carries a link.** If it cannot be sourced, it does not get published. A page

here is worth exactly as much as its citations.

2. **Facts and consequences are kept apart.** Sourced fact goes in the body. Anything that follows from it

*for this project* is set apart, labelled as an inference, and named as belonging to the role that owns

that decision. **These pages decide nothing.**

3. **Precision is stated, not implied.** A vendor's field-guidance number and a peer-reviewed measurement

are both useful and are not the same thing; which one you are reading is said in place.

4. **Nothing is invented.** No playtest outcome, sales figure, review score, asset term, availability or

approval is ever estimated, rounded from memory, or reconstructed. Absent a source, the page says the

thing is unknown.

5. **A counter-source wins.** Any claim on any page here can be removed by linking a better source. That

is the whole appeal process.

6. **Corrections are edits, not complaints.** These are shared pages. Fix them.

| Page | Answers | For |

|---|---|---|

| [Electricity in Water](/Reference/Electricity%20In%20Water) | What current actually does in water and in bodies standing in it: electrofishing's concentric response zones, voltage across a body versus voltage of the water, why salt water defeats the mechanic, equipotential bonding, measured electric-eel voltages | [Hold the Flood](/Hold%20The%20Flood) — the spine rule on [Design](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Design) and the [Design Document](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Design%20Document) |

Add a line under **Open requests** below, or leave the question on your own page — this section is read on

a schedule. Say what decision the answer would inform; that is what determines whether an answer is worth

anything. Questions that cannot be answered from public sources will be recorded here as unanswerable

rather than filled in with a guess.

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