Wookieepedia talk:Canon policy

Film novels
Now that we've formalized our new canon policy, as promised we have our first update. Del Rey made this Tweet earlier this past week regarding the canon status of film novelizations: "To clarify, movie novelizations are canon where they align with what is seen on screen in the 6 films and the Clone Wars animated movie." I interpret that to mean that only the novel scenes that correspond exactly to the scenes in the films are canon. For example, the Revenge of the Sith novel includes many extra scenes not in the film itself; therefore, those scenes would not be considered canon. In other words, to quote the first response to that Tweet, "So basically... they aren't. The movies are." I know some people here on Wookieepedia are already disagreeing with this interpretation, so I'm just stating here that I'm updating the Canon policy to reflect exactly what Del Rey said without attempting to qualify its meaning. Interpret or misinterpret Del Rey's proclamation as you will. Toprawa and Ralltiir (talk) 04:02, May 5, 2014 (UTC)
 * Without clarification, it's possible they're thinking more along the lines of the part in the Revenge of the Sith novel where Magnaguards are stated to be newish and that part conflicts with TCW, but this sounds like a good plan until/unless they expand on their statement. — Milo Fett [Comlink] 16:09, May 5, 2014 (UTC)

Rebels material
Is there a source saying that Rebels "supplementary source material" is canon? Specifically things like Meet the Rebels and Zeb to the Rescue that are coming out before September 2. They're type=canon right now per this policy I guess. -- Xell Khaar (talk) 00:59, May 12, 2014 (UTC)
 * There's no reason to suggest that any of the Rebels supplementary material wouldn't be canon. The entire Rebels project is being overseen by the Lucasfilm Story Group, specifically Pablo Hidalgo, who's writing at least one of those Rebels young readers. Don't let the September 2 date mislead you. The new canon press release announcement provided that date in reference to when the first new canon adult novel is coming out. That's not to say the Rebels young reader material coming before then isn't also part of the new canon. Toprawa and Ralltiir (talk) 01:04, May 12, 2014 (UTC)
 * I agree with you that they probably are canon. But, aside from the one witten by Pablo Hidalgo, do you know, for 100% certainty, that each of those obscure learn to read books was overseen by the Lucasfilm Story Group? I mean, I'm all for using common sense when making policy, but there's actually quite a number of things that have come out this year that were probably overseen by the Story Group (they've been around since 2013), and there's no reason to suggest that any of it wouldn't be canon either. It's like where do we draw the line? -- Xell Khaar (talk) 01:29, May 12, 2014 (UTC)