Guidebook Standards

Summary
Guidebooks are official sources created by creators of a particular series to explain things about their series or to elaborate on already existing information. These sources can often be used to gauge the power of characters or to explain the nature of a complex ability that exists within the series. However, for every reliable source, there’s always a guidebook that is unreliable or in some cases, outright contradictory to the feats presented within an official work. As such, this page will exist to give a rundown of traits a reliable guidebook has

Consisteny
When looking at the reliability of guidebooks, consistency will always be the number one priority, as if it goes along with the presented statements and feats within the work, then more changes than not its reliable to use and the information in it is eligible for use when gauging feats and statements. This can also apply to cosmological guides such as official maps and the likes, which are only apply when it fits the statements regarding a verse comsology

Evidence For Statement
When a guide aligns with the feats or statements present within the work, then it can be considered reliable as the statement have substance that applies within the work itself and isn‘t just a misunderstanding of their own work. The same also applies to statistical guides that revolve around stats and other in universe systems that gauges out powers

Time of Creation
The period in which it was written alos has a play in whether a guide is reliable. Guides can only be applicable to a certain comsology or for a certain era at the time (I.E guide made during Pre-Crisis DC applying specifically to that era). A guide made at a certain time can also effect the reliability of a statement in the sense that it contradicts information that either was later retcon or changed through authors