Board Thread:Community Announcements and Events/@comment-26074798-20180107035141/@comment-34710634-20180107115809

"Proposal to change the OOG template to sorting by "canonicity" rather than out-of-gameness. Failed 3-1-6."

Before this sparks a discussion on canon and the way this wikia sees canon, I'll say what we discussed and what this means.

Currently, the OOG (out of game) template has this text: "Notice: The following are out-of-game references. They are not found in any in-game books, but can still be considered part of The Elder Scrolls lore and are included for completeness."

There was concern that the new members would be confused, that only the games are canon and the novels by Greg Keyes are not. The fact is that both the games and these two novels are canon. I think we could also include "The Origin of Cyrus!" comic here. The rest of texts and sources are very subjective and can be discussed until we all die, but one thing is obvious: games+novels=canon in 100%.

Therefore, there was a proposal that we would have a new template that would divide the sources to "canon" and "non-canon".

However, we decided that the "out of game" template was okay for now and caused no problems, and if anyone wanted to check canonicity of a source, they can do so. The template does not say anything about canon, only whether something appears in-game or not. It doesn't show novels as non-canon, only as not appearing in-game.

That's why we decided to keep the OOG template as it is, since it doesn't mislead people by itself. It has a clear description that it divides sources to "in-game" and "out of game". It works, so we can keep it.