Robot Wars Wiki:Canon

The Robot Wars Wiki community is well-informed place and unlike many other Wikia projects like Harry Potter and Pokemon, original information is often offered both to the Wiki and spread through the community.

As a precaution against Robot Wars Wiki acquiring a reputation for poor fact-checking, the canon policy now applies to all articles in the mainspace.

The TV Broadcast is Canon, until such time as it is explicitly disproved.

 * Robot Wars is a TV show first and foremost, and the version of events as broadcast and explained on the show is accepted until explicitly disproved.
 * To disprove the TV show, there must be one of the following:
 * A factual error, disproven by the show itself:
 * Examples:
 * Spelling errors and mistaken words: Destruct-A-Bubble was mistakenly spelled as "Distruct-A-Bubble". Shadow of Napalm was mistakenly referred to as Son of Napalm in the recap in the grand final.
 * Incorrect recollections: Killertron is explicitly referred to as placing third in Series 2, when it came fourth. The broadcast itself explains this.
 * Omissions: Terror-Bull was twice labelled as a new robot in Heat G, its previous appearance in Series 4 being completely ignored.
 * An express contradiction by persons to whom the broadcast information relates:
 * Examples:
 * Or Te is styled as Orte on the TV broadcast. Unlike the Destruct-A-Bubble example, it is called this consistently. However, the Or Te Facebook page indicates that the team wishes it to be called Or Te.
 * Another reliable source:
 * Examples:

Other Rules

 * Naming a robot:
 * Non-canon honours:
 * As far as the Wikia is concerned, nothing happened between Series 7 and the 2016 series

Exceptions

 * Rivalries: Whilst there were indeed some rivalries in Robot Wars, many of them were staged for entertainment purposes, especially those showcased in Robot Wars Extreme: Series 1/Vengeance.