Forum:Canon Policy Update

Hello everyone, Brodie-001 here. With a new year comes new change for Halo Fanon. Having discussed this at length with my fellow Administrators recently, I have decided that it is high time to update our Canon Policy. Why? Well, the last proper amendments were made in 2010 shortly after the release of Halo: Reach. Back then there was still a lot of speculation and dislike of 343 Industries taking over the Haloverse, and for the past five years we have considered their work to be of lesser canon work than Bungie's main Halo Trilogy and the novels written around it. Since then we've had several new Halo games, novels and general content put out by 343i, and it only seems right that our wiki moves with the times.

As such, our updated Canon Policy will require that all new fanon work follow the official Halo canon. This largely has to do with post-Human-Covenant War material such as the UNSC Infinity, the events of Halo 4 and the introduction of both the SPARTAN-IV Program and the Spartan Branch. I'm well aware that a number of users are not fond of some of these new changes, but on the Halo Fanon Wiki it is our goal to produce high-quality content that remains canon-friendly within the Halo Universe, and after years of allowing work to ignore 343i's additions to the Haloverse the time has come to amend that. This post is largely just to notify our community of this major update.

After some discussion, we have decided to give some a chance for exemption from these changes. This is not a way of favouring some users over others, and is simply a way of allowing some of our older EU's to exist without doing away with years of hard work. As such, all universes made BEFORE January 30th, 2015 do not have to abide by these changes. Any articles or Expanded Universe projects made after this date that are not part of these older universes must follow our revised Canon policy.

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