Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-24627553-20140316230248/@comment-29845234-20161026114604

Blademaster Jauffre wrote: < 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.

Fair enough. I never wandered into those bits of the site in any depth. I guess the dividing line is references, although I'd say the difference is moot between TIL and here for anyone who doesn't actually read the source material.

And I've noticed the Internet ate half my post. The problem with saying "that's not canon" and shutting stuff down is that people don't get their information about the games from nice neatly delineated sources, they just hear stuff about the universe online. To shut down a discussion by saying "it's not canon, don't talk about that here" rather than explaining and discussing the issue ("canon" or not) is incredibly rude, as far as I'm concerned. People will come looking for information about the universe here, and if they don't find it in the wiki itself because it's out-of-game material, explaining stuff to them and saying "this doesn't appear in any game, but is a creation by a fan/ex-dev/whoever" rather than shouting them down for daring to breach "canon" seems far better to me.