Thread:Original TMNT Cartoon Fan/@comment-995426-20200124171527/@comment-995426-20200124180906

The general rule of thumb at the moment is, if the topic is not unique to TMNT and has no significant plot relevance and has no verified direct in-story appearances by name or recognizable features and its Turtlepedia article (apart from trivia noting its meager in-story significance) cannot describe the real world topic better than Wikipedia can, then a soft redirect to Wikipedia is made. Soft redirects can be promoted to placeholders or stubs if one of those three conditions no longer holds. Besides New Zealand, Australia and the Williamsburg Bridge:
 * Benny features at least by geography, mention and brief description in After the Bomb, but only as a city after the Big Death. Real world Albany, pre-Death, makes no direct appearances, so I made it a soft redirect.
 * Similarly, the M'hawk River is part of the unique geographical nomenclature of After the Bomb, so it at least has a brief article. The real world Mohawk River it is based on, has no pre-Death appearances, so I made it a soft redirect.
 * Broadway (the city street) can, at various times, be implied to be at or near a TMNT setting (such as Subway station (4th and Broadway), or, in a less directly certain sense, Union Square Park but without any specifically recognizable features), and streets corresponding to Broadway's geography without name are marked as boundaries in the Zones of Control maps. Story details at most peripherally brush against Broadway without directly portraying or specifying it.  So it's a soft redirect.
 * Chelsea...you get the idea.