User:MarleneZ.

~.~About Me~.~
I've been a Death Note fan for about five years. I've read the manga, watched the anime, and obsessed over the live-action films. I have the entire series sitting on a shelf. I decided to edit this wiki when I was looking for some info and realized that the wiki was pretty unactive. Anyway, I love Death Note, I love this wiki, and I want to help make it as great as it can be! MarleneZ.    Talk 07:27, March 12, 2012 (UTC)

Questions and Answers
If you have any questions about the series or questions/concerns regarding the wiki, don't be afraid to talk to me. I'd love to help! You can also contact the other active admins: Dremler and Kira4real. Many questions have been answered via article talk pages. If you have a question about a certain character or a characters info page, try checking the talk page to see if your question has been answered or is being discussed.

Fan Theories
Please Note: that you should not add speculation or theories popular in the fandom to the wiki (unless it's in a blog or on your page, where you are free to go crazy).

Although fan theories are entertaining and interesting, they aren't the kind of info that should be present on an encyclopediac website such as Death Note Wiki. Theories have a bad habit of being considered facts, whch in turn leads to incorrect assumptions and causes confusion on and off of the wiki. With a series like Death Note, spreading personal theories as facts can be very harmful to the enjoyment of viewers/readers in that they lose the chance to initially interpret the series in their own way. Remember: thinking that something happened or could have happened, doesn't mean that it did. Alternatively, it doesn't necessarily mean that it couldn't have or didn't. Nevertheless, it's always nice to let people form their own opinions, rather than shove ours down their throats.

Respecting others and their opinions, as well as respecting characters, is the key to enjoying the company of other fans, both on and off the wiki. If there's a character that you dislike, please don't mess up their page or make snarky comments about them. Even if it's directed at a fictional character, rudeness is never cool.

Canon
"Canon" is the name for accepted, proven facts relevant to a subject. In regards to Death Note and this wiki, there are three seperate canons that we operate under. The first is "Manga canon", which consist of official material related directly to the manga; this is the source of most information on this wiki, and the source used to write the characters' biographies, as well as the main plot section on their pages. The second is "Anime canon", which consist of official material related to the anime; if a character does something different in the anime from what they did in the manga, it will be noted in the main plot article on their page. The third is "Film canon" which consists of material related to the live-action film series; a characters role in the film series is noted in a specific paragraph on their page. For more information on what media belongs to each canon, see Guide to Canon.