User blog:Icehard712/A Message to New Users

Okay, so I've been considering making something like this for a while, though I'm certainly not the first one to do it. However, as an experienced wikian and uber-obsessed Gravity Falls fanatic, I would like to bring some topics to newer users' attention. I've seen some issues repeatedly popping up; some are minor, some aren't. If anyone reads this, I appreciate you taking time to do so and considering these issues.

I'm not going to get into stuff about what the guidelines say, but please take a look at them before editing. They're a great place to go if you have questions. If you can't find what you're looking for there, or just don't feeling like scouring the page, feel free to leave a message on one of the more experienced user's walls. From my experience, everyone here is extremely friendly and willing to offer advice.

Anyways, the stuff I want to address:

1. Stanley Pines is just a theory. While it is a viable claim, it's not confirmed. It's something the fan community came up with to explain some of the stuff in the show, but it has no official recognition.

2. Blendin Blandin is not a creature. This has been a recurring theme throughout my entire time on the wiki, and that's almost as long as GF has been airing. He's a regular human with no magical abilities, so he's not a creature. He's just an awkward guy from the future.

3. The show takes place in 2012, and the progression time in the show does not correspond to real-life duration. What this means: Dipper and Mabel are 12 and were born at the end of summer 1999 (we've had confirmation of this in an interview). Don't say they were born in 2000, the math for that is wrong. And don't say they're 15. Someone actually put that in one of their articles.

That's pretty much it. It was more of a scrupulous act of nitpicking, but it had to be done.