Forum:Canon Policy

So, I've been noticing some things.

Why is it alright to disregard some aspects of established canon while honoring others? I thought newly established canon overruled previously established canon. Case in point: The Fall of Reach, it said that there were over three million people on Harvest when it was glassed. Contact Harvest comes along, changes the number to three hundred thousand. The canon was changed from 3,000,000 to 300,000, with 300,000 taking precedence. However, when TFoR states that there were three divisions of ODSTs, with the 105th ODST Division being one of them (of course, the quote this is taken from is dubious at best; it says that the SPARTANs did more work than any three divisions of ODSTs ever could, not that there were three divisions of ODSTs). The Encyclopedia (Uncyclopedia, as I like to call it) says that the 105th is a Marine Expeditionary Unit. A traditional MEU numbers about 3,000 personnel, including those in support positions. However, some still hold the word of TFoR over the Encyclopedia, despite the fact that newly established canon overrules canon established previously.

The new canon policy also includes a policy on realism. But, as some of you may have noticed, some articles completely overstep the bounds of realism. One such article breaks knowledge of basic biology; the character's spine was torn out, all of their blood wiped out, and their left arm replaced with a particle accelerator. Now, no one can survive with their spine gone, much less having their normal red blood cells replaced by so-called "black" blood cells; said individual would run the risk of rejection, leading to their body attacking itself. Not only that, but a particle accelerator? Small enough to fit on a man's left arm? Yeah, believe it - the person who wrote the article explains any and all concerns with the phrase: "tier zero technology". For those of you who don't know, tier zero was the technology scale of the Precursors, a race that know one really knows to have even existed. They could travel through galaxies, and create life from virtually *nothing*. It's become the new race card of canon.

So, what I ask is this: why are we still stressing that articles be "canon friendly", when our own veteran users and administrators pick and choose from canon? Why are we still marking the noobie's articles NCF when it can all be explained away by "tier zero technology"? Why even have a canon policy when we're going to do nothing but break it anyway, going outside the laws of physics, chemistry, and biology because it can all be simply explained by the use of "tier zero technology"?

I say we just do away with the policy, since it's useless. It's pointless, honestly. It's just a way for veteran users and administrators to get rid of noobs who create things they don't like, and don't lie, that's exactly what they use it for. That's all it is. Hell, if we're just going to pick and choose from canon, I'll say that Harvest had 3,000,000 people on it when it was glassed, just because I like Nylund. Hell, I'll say that the UNSC didn't discover Brutes until 2552 during FIRST STRIKE, because I like Nylund's novels better than Staten's, Bucknell's, and Deitz's. Hell, let's just say that SPARTAN-117 was a girl with a really deep voice, because that's the way I want it to be, because I don't like the published canon. -- Sergeant Major Avery Johnson  00:00, April 20, 2010 (UTC)