Forum:SH:Deleted scenes and canon

Hey everyone,

JSarek recently pointed out to me a comment made by Leland Chee in this blog entry back in 2006:

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Are deleted scenes considered G-level? Yes, unless they conflict with something else seen in the films or if the reasoning behind deleting the scene keeps it from being continuity. [ADDENDUM: this applies only to deleted scenes publicly released]

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I asked him on facebook specifically about all of the new deleted scenes made available on the blu-rays, but he doesn't seem to respond to facebook queries very often. If he hasn't responded after, say, a week, should we assume that this is still the practice? If he hasn't said anything to indicate that it isn't still practice, it seems to me that we should indeed assume it is.

If this is the case, we'll have to move some "Behind the scenes" info into the in-universe body of a buncha articles, including some Featured Articles such as Tiaan Jerjerrod and, I believe, Wampa, as well as a current FAN of mine, Blount. All of this would fall under WP:CANON --- we consider "All comments from Leland Chee or other VIPs regarding the content of the Holocron continuity database or official Lucasfilm decrees" to be canonical.

Characters such as Unidentified Mon Calamari pilot would still require the Cut template, I think, as his deleted scenes are just the director feeding him lines, including humorous ones like "Fried Calamari tonight!"

Anyway, please let me know your thoughts on this. I'd like to get some sort of consensus one way or the other. Cheers. Menkooroo 16:29, October 1, 2011 (UTC)