Thread:Lordofninjas1/@comment-1639863-20171011184718

The phrase "out of universe" means that the content is written from the standpoint of a real world viewer. On this site, we write everything in the context as if we're historians in the universe we're writing a page for.

Specifically, the thing that was out of universe on the page for the Thinker was the sentence about "Flash, Season 4 Episode 1" or whatever. It's okay to source, but you do that behind the scenes with citations -. However, I undid everything because it didn't really add anything to the page. We don't know enough about the Thinker yet to clutter the page with minor things that don't really say anything about him. Saying "he told the Mechanic they're moving forward with their plan" is such a minor detail for a season-wide villain, it's okay to wait until we have something of substance.

And, affiliations are usually reserved for teams, not individuals. 