User blog:IEmbargo/iEmbargo's Canonicity Rules - Part 1

I have been involved with more fandoms than I care to think about. After all those years of being on F/SF convention fandoms - including being on panels where such things were discussed, I decided to mentally create some canonicity rules to keep things straight. After many years, my point of view evolved into some very clear but rigid rules; most people are much more flexible, but I do have canonicity gradations to account for them.

If you are familiar with Doctor Who or Star Trek, you know that there have been various releases of material in different media with debatable canonicity. For instance, the Star Trek cartoons were the most hotly debated point of canonicity in the Star Trek universe for years. Gene Roddenberry and Paramount went back and forth - usually to denigrate Doctor Who. I just took a stand