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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Krensky" data-source="post: 4830396" data-attributes="member: 30936">The problem is that the OP along with most of fandom and their enablers (read authors) use the word wrong. Canon is a either a general principle or a body of literary work. Well, there's some other meanings relating to music or ecclesiastic issues, but they're not important here. Fandom has conflated the two meanings above into the 'authoritative sources about a fictional universe'. The real world has canon in both of these senses. Religion, universal morality, most basic science, mathematics, etc fall into the first category. The second are things like the Western Canon, The Four (or Five) Great Classic Novels of China, and the bodies of work that fandom obsesses over are all canons.Canonical works in fandom are considered authoritative because they are part of a single body of work that adhears to a set of principles. If they deviate from those principles, even if by the same author, ofter fans will reject their inclusion. You see this in Star Wars, for instance, with people ignoring the Prequels. Then there's things like the Expanded Universe in, again, Star Wars that isn't canon because (in essence) Lucas neither wrote it or accepted it into his official vision of the universe.Comparing canon to history or anything else in the real world is like comparing apples and pomegranates. It may work as a literary convention, but they really don't have anything to do with one another.</blockquote>

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