Talk:Blaseball, The Internet Blaseball League Wiki/Archive

How to differentiate Fanon and Canon

THE FACTS: A discussion has arisen in the #lore channel about how to differentiate Fanon and Canon on the wiki— I believe this is the best place to propose and discuss solutions in an organized fashion!

MY TAKE: Coming from a perspective of someone who likes lore and has spent a lot of time reading the SCP wiki, I personally think that immersion is important and would reckon that the majority of Blaseball fans get into the game because they enjoy the immersive aspects of pretending that the barebones baseball simulator is not so barebones after all.

I also believe that Wiki editors can respectfully work together to achieve a collaborative shared canon (basically, the direction the wiki is going in right now) and that if someone is attached to their own fanon ideas or alternate universe, they're welcome to create an offshoot wiki to host these ideas. Alternatively, we could also have a system like SCP's Tales, which allow for contradicting fanons and ideas while the main SCP articles (in our case, "Core" articles like players, teams, and seasons) maintain one collaboratively agreed-upon canon, with "true canon" information taken directly from official Blaseball sources taking precedence.

A proposed solution for those who are more interested in canon stats than player-generated canon, we can include a "First Time Here?" link on the homepage that explains, out of character, the purpose of the wiki and includes direction to the Society for Internet Blaseball Research (SIBR) homepage/wiki for purely canon statistics and information. Let me know what you think, and remember that we all enjoy Blaseball in our own way and the goal is to work together to find a compromise that allows everyone to enjoy it! Crunklio (talk) 15:53, 4 August 2020 (UTC)

I've added a disclaimer to the main page but I do agree a "first time here" page would be a very good solution SonarTaxlaw (talk) 16:02, 4 August 2020 (UTC)

+ − my opinion is we should have no differentiation between "canon" and "fanon" because there is no real difference between the two, especially in Blaseball. All the pronouns on the wiki are as canon as the site is and its almost always good to correct people on them if it makes Blaseball more explicitly queer and diverse. That's my stance, I guess. User:YerPalDK (usertalk:YerPalDK) 12:01 4 August 2020 (EDT)