In a message dated 6/26/2007 3:51:50 AM Central Daylight Time, thomas.dalton@gmail.com writes:
The in-universe statement: "The Blogaveen race has blue hair and green eyes." can be rewritten out-of-universe as: "In Episode 17, a member of the Blogaveen race is portrayed as having blue hair and green eyes." That statement is perfectly OOU, but doesn't require anything but the primary source. Obviously, information about the creation of the character would be good, but the absence of it doesn't make the statement IU.
It gives it an out-of-universe perspective, which is different than having out-of-universe information. Out-of-universe material is stuff like sales figures, merchandise, reception, etc. Out-of-universe perspective is how it's written, in addition to having sections of out-of-universe information.
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