Citations, Crosslinks and Canonical Reading
Last updated: August 21, 2026
- The project's own guidance
- Terminology that must not drift
- Language in a citation
- Official source
- Related reading
Citing this Universe well comes down to one question: which surface owns the claim you are making? An entity is owned by the Codex. A narrative is owned by the Grand Library. A file is owned by the Asset Vault. A decision is owned by the City Council. Publisher identity is owned by the Impressum, origin by the About page, and development status by the Roadmap and Changelog. Getting this right is most of the work; everything else is formatting.
The project's own guidance
The portal publishes citation guidance and it is worth following exactly. Prefer the canonical name Tales of Xdripia and link the main portal for general reference. Cite /about for origin and creative-process claims, /universe for cosmology, /radio for the radio experience, and /impressum for publisher and editorial responsibility. For a vertical, cite its own canonical host. For development status, cite the Roadmap or Changelog and preserve the page's own date and status language.
Terminology that must not drift
XDRIP is always uppercase. The founder is XDRIP Digital Management LLC, never an individual. The category term for the project is Universe. Project-specific names — Xdripia, Xdripian, Sfera Primordiale — keep their form and are not normalised into unrelated concepts.
Language in a citation
Codex and Library long-form material is primarily Italian, with bilingual navigation and, on many records, descriptions in both languages. Cite the language you actually read, and link the record rather than paraphrasing across a translation.
This Knowledge Base is a guide, not a source. Cite the canonical surface it points at, not the page you found the pointer on.
Official source
Canonical source for this subject: Tales of Xdripia. Checked 21 August 2026 — where this guide and the live service disagree, the service is right.
Related reading
- Canonical Sources and Content Boundaries — Which site is the primary source for each kind of information, and what documentation may not answer.
- Lore Theories and Citing the Codex — How to build a theory that other readers can actually evaluate.
- Linking Multimedia, Library, Codex and Assets — Choosing between the four surfaces that can each hold a piece of the same work.