Forum:SH:M-canon (Disney reworking)

With Disney's new announcement of throwing out most of the Expanded Universe, how will the existing classification system be treated here on Wookieepedia? Maybe a new class of canon should be created (such as 'M-canon' for "mouse"—'D-canon' is already taken) to account for Disney's spin on Star Wars.

While it can be argued that the new trilogy could be made to fall under 'G-canon' or 'C-canon', since Disney plans on combining the storyline of all subsequent official works into the same continuity and officially disposing of the canon system, this will make identifying the "canonicalicity" of existing works very cumbersome. (Demoting all of C-canon to S-canon or N-canon, dropping all other canons except G-canon into N-canon, and completely demolishing the C-canon, T-canon, and D-canon categories would completely alienate decades of E.U. literature and quasi-official works, not to mention create other major problems of heirarchical oversimplification.) A new canon is one way to address this issue. Of course, it would probably have to be Leland Chee's decision, not one solely of the Wookieepedia community, although the community could probably weigh in.

More info on the Disney plans here: - http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/star-wars-spinoffs-will-matter-668958 - http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/01/op-ed-disney-takes-a-chainsaw-to-the-star-wars-expanded-universe/ (for the links and background, not the opinions)

—Loracian7 (talk) 09:40, January 14, 2014 (UTC)