Board Thread:Wiki/@comment-27441457-20160723234311

As I brought up | several months ago, I've noticed that this wiki has taken a black-and-white approach to the canonicity of various forms of media. While I agree that material should not be declared as canon within the main storyline until it is acknowledged in a certain way by Hajime Isayama himself, I feel that spinoff material meant to take place within the main storyline should be given a different designation of canonicity than parodies such as Junior High and otherworld stories such as the live action films, the latter two being intended to take place in different realities while spinoffs can arguably be considered part of the main universe by reader discretion.

Back when I first proposed this idea, I called it "pseudo-canon", but now I think a better designation would be Disputed canon. Other wikis such as the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Wiki have also taken a similar approach: if it does not originate from the original mangaka but is meant to take place in the main storyline, its canonicity is left to the reader's discretion rather than being labelled as indisputably non-canon.

On a somewhat related note, I also propose that anime-exclusive characters such as Wald and Dieter should be reclassified from Non-canon to being part of Anime canon, intended to exist in the main universe but appearing only in the anime adaptation. 