User:Ayrehead02/Workshop2

Alright, after many months of sporadic and inconclusive debates on various Senate Hall and talk page threads it's finally time we come to a decision about how we should treat the roleplaying content produced by Fantasy Flight Games. Since the canon split in 2014, the RPG supplement books produced by the company have often contained a mixture of elements from both canon and legends. While in the past some have treated the books as entirely legends, leading to the creation (and sometimes later deletion) of legends tabs for articles from Rebels which could arguably fit into the legends continuity, the release of the Star Wars: The Force Awakens Beginner Game introduces elements from The Force Awakens which are entirely incompatible with the legends continuity.

As this incompatible content is only likely to increase with further releases, treating all FFG content as legends is clearly no longer an option. The alternative that we have in some cases instead been following is splitting the content of each book into the appropriate legends and canon, for example including content based around Rebels in canon and content based around The Old Republic in legends. While this works well for other FFG products like X-Wing where entire sets are usually either canon or legends, with the books sometimes entire sections will have to be split between the two tabs. The issue with this is that it can be highly subjective and is generally confusing for both readers and editors, especially with no guidelines in place. It also leaves the status of new content, like the planet Auratera and Weik, as entirely unclear.

Various attempts to ask Story Group Members or FFG staff about how to treat the material has made it clear that there isn't a clear cut answer. Several relevant twitter threads are included in the Senate Hall thread where this issue has been previously discussed, but don't really provide a conclusive answer. Lengthy discussion of this can also be found on the Nexus of Power talk page. I've put this vote together in the hopes of getting a feeling for what the wider Wookieepedia community thinks we should do here, since most discussions have been between a fairly small number of users. Below I've listed the options I can think of for how we treat the information, although I highly encourage others to suggest other solutions if they have them and indeed build on this in general.

Option 1: All included

This option is the closest to a current rule as we have, which is simply to include the information from the books in the main body of either the canon or legends articles based on a case-by-case decisions as to which article it best fits in.

Option 2: All non-canon

Under this option all FFG information would be relegated to the Behind the Scenes sections of the relevant legends or canon articles and articles on new content would be entirely marked as non-canon. This doesn't resolve the issue of us deciding if something is canon or legends, as we would still have to pick which article's BTS it was included in, but it would certainly reduce the impact of the us making decisions.

Option 3: Disclaimer template

Taking precedent from out Star Wars Tales 1-20 template, we could create a template labeling content in either continuity as being from a source of uncertain canonicity. This could be expanded for use with other material like the fact files and all of FFG's other products and potentially even things like Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know, which includes a disclaimer that some of its content is based on legends and has already been corrected by Pablo Hidalgo several times.