Thread:MrHappyJohn/@comment-104549-20180804202043/@comment-104549-20180804215053

That innovation stems from the Disney purchase of LucasFilm, when what had previously been canon became "Legends" and everything in the Disney-approved continuity became "Canon". That left authors here with two "official" alternate universes, even aside from all of our creations, and a choice to make about in which one they were going to write.

Take the . Under Legends, that's part of the storyline; under Disney Canon, it never happened. A user who prefers the old Legends continuity and wants to write a story occurring within the Thrawn Trilogy (e.g., writing from the perspective of a Noghri who becomes aware of Thrawn's duplicity or something) might caption the articles "Legends". By contrast, a user writing a story about baby Rey or other and sundry misadventures of the Knights of Ren would caption the articles "Canon" because they're based off that official storyline, even if the details are invented.

Some users do try to blend the two together, but as Disney keeps coming out with new stuff, trying to merge them becomes harder.