Thread:Gsimenas/@comment-38307063-20200429111722/@comment-38307063-20200429140504

I don't think anyone here knows what speculation means. I didn't know precisely what the word meant and assumed it to be something similar to possibility, theory and such. The reason I said that my edit was speculation on one of the summaries was because you called it speculation first, so I assumed you knew what you were talking about. But here's the dictionary definition of the word speculation - the forming of a theory or conjecture without firm evidence.

This is not what my edit was. Speculation is when you have an idea about something but have no evidence for it to be true. That's not the case with what I added to the Black Iron Great Sword article. As stated in my message above, there are seven reasons why Kirito's sword is almost certainly inspired by the Dragonslayer. Therefore, since there is evidence backing my claim, it cannot be considered speculation.

Another thing I found was that there was actually another user before me who tried to include a similar trivia as me, meaning that I'm not the only one who has spotted the resemblance between the two swords. You should know very well about this as you were the one who undid his edit, too. In case you've forgotten, this was his edit (April 13,2019):

Its appearance slightly resembles the Dragon Slayer sword from Berserk, another two handed black great sword, and may in fact be a visual tribute to that weapon.

I do realize that there is no direct statement from the author conserning this specific matter, but the resemblance between the two swords is so obvious that you don't need a direct statement to see it.