Talk:What Is Canon?

What is the purpose of this page actually? Is this just an archive for the evageeks page? If so, why is it not in an user page or anything like that? The concept of canon doesn't exist in japanese and it doesn't have any meaning for it to exist in this wikia outside the user page. There is the risk of giving false information since it could be misinterpreted as hard rules when those clearly doesn't exist.

The objective of the wikia is to give concrete information, not to "offer" tools for analyzing the stories. Even more when the two sites (Wikia and Evageeks) are totally different in its objectives, and this is basically mirroring the same page (that could only makes sense if it is an archived version of it).

I have no problems with having this page outside the userpage but I think it should be addressed in big letters the purpose of it in the sense that all of the list is made by someone else who doesn't have any official representative voice ("Just how does one determine what is and is not canon? A very handy rule of thumb was invented for this purpose by Shin-seiki, a frequent poster at the Anime Nation and Eva Monkey forums. This tool is known as Shin-seiki's Tiers of Canonicity and is a proven system, both simple and effective, for resolving contradictory statements among various sources.")

And of course, the idea of canonicity in evangelion is a big joke in itself. We should be working to just separate information by the different authors and so on (manga, movies, tv series, anima, other stuff), for example the entry plug in anima is treated totally different than the one in TV and does have different things and works in different ways. To try to hold it all in a tier list of canon is just silly, even more when the people involved doesn't work that way. And of course, even more when this idea is so NGE centric, and would fall apart easily if you include the movies and other works.