Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-24627553-20140316230248/@comment-26893431-20161024175113

Aramithius wrote:

But there isn't some grand Platonic notion of "lore" any more. Yes there is stuff that is produced by Bethesda and stuff that isn't, but the majority of what people take in as "lore" is just information that people pick up about the series on the Internet. Which

Not sure how you browse, but most of the stuff in TIL is on the left-hand side of the main page, and pretty much all the collections arrange both in-game and out-of-game stuff by theme and make them searchable (apart from the novels). The vast majority of anything I've ever found there has been in-game stuff, and I find Google far more useful for digging up submitted work (beyond the developer interviews and such) than the actual functions in the Library itself. But the vast majority of the content is in-game texts and dialogue; I really don't see how you can say it's "mostly" fan-work.

But those things aren't lore. They are fanfic.

https://www.imperial-library.info/content/city-anvil 2 clicks into the site and you find this, which is not something Bethesda made, nor is it referenced. The IL lacks references on practically all of its pages. There are a ton of fanon posts on the IL, I suppose that if you compare those to the canon (lore) pages, you will find the majority is fanon.