I have been checking out some wikipedia entries and came across the Star Wars system of ranking canon:
"The [Star War] Holocron's database includes an area for a single-letter (G, T, C, S or N) representing the level of canonicity of that element; these letters have since informally been applied to the levels of canon themselves: G-canon, T-canon, C-canon, S-canon and N-canon. G, T, C and S together form the overall Star Wars continuity. Each ascending level typically overrides the lower ones...."
I wonder if a similar 'canonocity' rating scheme could be applicable to our sources. That is:
G-canon = Gygax Canon, materials written by EGG
T-canon = TSR/Wizards of the Coast published materials that were written by another author byut specifically set in Greyhawk (Sargent, Cook, etc)
O-canon = Open sourced published materials that are generic in setting but have some GH reference to them (such as many reference materials, generic setting modules, etc)
C-canon = Canonfire original material
Obviously this can be a sliding scale, as many materials have elements of multiple canonocity (a CF article can reference direct sources, secondary sources and be original works). Now I like to cite to sources in my articles, and often times I reference other CF articles, as well as primary sources.
I know this comes up in discussion every once in a while, as to what common refernence point we relate to to decide how 'canon' one article is over another.
Ah, maybe it is more trouble then it is worth, prompting more disagreements then it answers...
for star wars, as in wikipedia:
"The Holocron is divided into 5 levels: G-canon, T-canon, C-canon, S-canon, and N-canon.
G-canon is absolute canon; the movies (their most recent release), the scripts, the novelizations of the movies, the radio plays, and any statements by George Lucas himself. G-canon overrides the lower levels of canon when there is a contradiction. Within G-canon, many fans follow an unofficial progression of canonicity where the movies are the highest canon, followed by the scripts, the novelizations, and then the radio plays.
T-canon[1] refers to the canon level comprising only the two television shows: Star Wars: The Clone Wars and the Star Wars live-action TV series. Its precedence over C-Level canon was confirmed by Chee[2].
C-canon is primarily composed of elements from the Expanded Universe including books, comics, and games bearing the label of Star Wars. Games and RPG sourcebooks are a special case; the stories and general background information are themselves fully C-canon, but the other elements such as character/item statistics and gameplay are, with few exceptions, N-canon.
S-canon is secondary canon; the story itself is considered non-continuity, but the non-contradicting elements are still a canon part of the Star Wars universe. This includes things like the online roleplaying game Star Wars: Galaxies and certain elements of a few N-canon stories.
N-canon is non-canon. "What-if" stories (such as stories published under the Star Wars: Infinities label), game statistics, and anything else directly contradicted by higher canon ends up here. N-canon is the only level that is not considered official canon by Lucasfilm. A significant amount of material that was previously C-canon was rendered N-canon by the release of Episodes I-III. "
A canon rating system was brought up for articles, with authors assigning their own rating based on what they had written, but seeing as many articles make use of all levels of canon, assigning a value to the articles as a whole is merely an estimation anyways anyways.
Instead of taking the time to define their articles in this way, I'd rather that people just write more articles. _________________ - Moderator/Admin (in some areas)/Member -
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