User blog comment:Jiskran/Canon and compatible with canon/@comment-1613839-20140227145807

I agree that a balance is needed, though I think our perspectives on what might belong and what doesn't might differ a bit. ...but first a bit about Canon and non-Canon or compatability with Canon. For those reading this that dont' know (which is probably only a few, but I would rather spell it out so we're all on the same page) Canon is something that comes directly from the source material (good or bad). So, for example a good portion of the spells we teach are Canon are the wand movements, incantations and effects are spelled out for us in the books. However, we also have created a number of our own spells, or grabbed them from other sources and while these spells have researched and thought out effects, incantations etc they are not canon. That being said, I think they would fall under the Compatible with Canon category as we can assume there are more spells than those listed in the books, and as long as the effects fall into line with what's expected of magic in our source material, they're acceptable. The third category (non-Canon) would be something like a spell that kills multiple people at the same time. We know that odesn't exist in the Canon stories, and can assume it wouldn't or Voldemort or another dark character would have probably figured out how to do it, so things like this are banned as Non-Canon. Alright so with that spelled out I think it's easy ot see what's Canon, but the line between non-Canon (and not allowed) and Compatible with Canon sometimes causes problems here, because it's really not set in stone and is up to an individual's judgement. These sort of things are generally regulated by the admins/Bcrats to make some sort of ruling on which they are, and honestly there are times we often disagree with one another because we have different perspectives on how things fit into the world we've created on this wiki. That doesn't necessarily make one person right and the other wrong, just looking at things from different perspectives and making a judgement call on different thoughts or criteria. ...and as our world has moved past the Canon one (in the sense of time, introducing Muggle machines, etc) we have to look at a new benchmark since we can now include things which never would have been compatible with the Canon due to RP world event happening on this wiki. So, feel like in these sort of cases we really have to make a judgement call as even Canon can't really be applied in a lot of cases since things have changed in our world compared to the original HP one. So, as Jisk's last line put, the real question is how to determine if something's considered compatible or non-Canon, and honestly in my opinion it's a relative judgement call made by an admin/Bcrat or team of them, and is based heavily on the individual change or idea being proposed. I honestly wish that anyone on the wiki could come up with an idea and everything would be allowed here, but that would add all sorts of other types of fictions and contradictions to our wiki, and in my opinion make it extremely confusing and impossible to play. If we had 4 different types fo vampires all that were harmed or killed different ways, things would get too complicated. So unfortunately this has to be regulated in some way. I think maybe the way to go forward on this would be to assign the job to one admin or Bcrat so all the judgements come from the same person, and if something comes up they need help with they can ask for the opinions of the others on the admin teams. If something is judged to by non-Canon the requested can appeal the idea to the rest of the admin team if they feel the judgement was wrong. The only problem I see with something like this is that it seems like a lot of ideas would be judged on-Canon, then appealed to the whole admin team which would make for a lot more work for the team as a whole. So...all that being said I'm honestly not sure I see a good solution for judging this, or how to run this, but I think it's something that does need to be regulated somehow. If you guys have any thoughts or ideas, if you agree with me or not, put why below and your thoughts. Thanks!