This page is an archive of a community-wide discussion. This page is no longer live. Further comments or questions on this topic should be made in a new Senate Hall page rather than here so that this page is preserved as a historic record. Graestan(Talk) 21:16, February 1, 2011 (UTC)
I have noticed that for certain characters, their articles include contradictory quotes from adaptations such as the novels over the canon movie ones. For example, the Kendal Ozzel page has not the canon line from the Empire Strikes Back movie when he is Force choked by Vader, but the line from the radio drama, which contradicts from the movie, instead. I thought that the only parts of the adaptations that were canon were the parts that did not contradict from the movies. While it is true that those quotes were probably all just to emphasize on the characters' personality and traits, the movie quote and the adaptation quotes cannot both be canon, or both occurred simultaneously, and it is my understanding that the movies are all the highest levels of canon. How come the contradictory lower-canon quotes are then still part of certain articles? Hanzo Hasashi 16:53, January 6, 2011 (UTC)
- That rule is bent slightly when it comes to quotes. If it is of better quality, a quote may be used from a lesser canon source. The authors (or former author) do this themselves; read the flow-walk sections of Bloodlines. NaruHina Talk
05:04, January 12, 2011 (UTC)
- That's not exactly true. Quotes follow the same rule as general text in the article. We try to make everything coexist where we can, but if two quotes, say from the ESB film and novel, for example, are not identical and cannot be reconciled, the film obviously takes precedent in the "hierarchy of canon," if you will. Hanzo's original assessment of the Ozzel situation is correct. Toprawa and Ralltiir 05:14, January 12, 2011 (UTC)
- Does that mean that, despite the fact my edit a while back replacing the lesser-canon radio quote with the fully-canon movie quote of the death of Ozzel was reverted, it actually should have been kept, or should the radio drama version of Ozzel's last moments indeed be the one shown in the biography? Hanzo Hasashi 17:58, January 12, 2011 (UTC)
- That's not exactly true. Quotes follow the same rule as general text in the article. We try to make everything coexist where we can, but if two quotes, say from the ESB film and novel, for example, are not identical and cannot be reconciled, the film obviously takes precedent in the "hierarchy of canon," if you will. Hanzo's original assessment of the Ozzel situation is correct. Toprawa and Ralltiir 05:14, January 12, 2011 (UTC)
