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The Baragwin article indicates that the species was First identified as Baragwin by Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know, despite Baragwin/Legends using the name previously. Same with the Baragwin Hermi Odle's name coming from Hermi Odle/Legends. Across Wookieepedia, is this tag consistently synonymous with "First use/confirmation of Legends name in Disney Canon"?
Related question: If new Canon material names something seen but not named in Legends (Yoda's species, for example), should Wookieepedia use that term in Legends articles? —Unsigned comment by 71.121.143.200 (talk • contribs).
- Hi, and thanks for asking these questions! As you can see, I've moved this thread to the Senate Hall which is the right place to ask any questions concerning Wookieepedia. (We use the Consensus track for proposing changes to Wookieepedia policies, and the Knowledge Bank can be used to ask questions about Star Wars in general.) Feel free to browse the Senate Hall archive for prior discussion threads.
- Regarding your first question, you'll notice that, for example, the Canon Baragwin article only lists Canon appearances and sources, so it only makes sense for any depiction info tags ({{1st}}, {{1stm}}, {{1stID}}, etc.) used in the article to only concern the subject's appearances within Canon media. So, the answer to your question, "is this tag consistently synonymous with "First use/confirmation of Legends name in Disney Canon"," is "not exactly." It's synonymous with "First identified within a Canon source." Any Canon subject's connection to its Legends counterpart is present only in two places in its article: 1) in the form of the Canon/Legends tab system at the top of the article, 2) in a well-written Behind the scenes section.
- Regarding your second question, it's simple: if a Canon source provides new information on a subject that wasn't provided by any Legends source, that information only concerns the Canon version of the subject. (Note two things, however. Firstly, such information can find its way into a Legends article's Behind the scenes section, as seen on the Featured article for Darth Caedus, which notes the existence of Kylo Ren. Secondly, information originating in sources which Wookieepedia treats as both Canon and Legends, such as Episodes I-VI and the TCW series, does concern both Canon and Legends versions of a subject's article. For example, any info on Ahsoka Tano originating in a TCW episode should be mentioned on both her Canon and Legends articles.)
- Hope this answers your questions! Imperators II(Talk) 09:46, December 31, 2017 (UTC)