Board Thread:Staff Discussion/@comment-27901943-20190908135840/@comment-27624304-20190911192900

I'm not opposed to some sort of template at the top, but I just think we should wait a bit and see what it is about and how its handled. Like just watch it and then see, it would be an easy thing to add a template later.

I firmly believe "canonicity"  or what the "universe" is, is something the individual fan decides, not because it is what Dean says, or it has Hiccup in it, or whatever. By labelling RR stuff as "non-canon", the Wiki is not being objective and making an official determination that the fan or Dreamworks should make. Dean said it is not related to his movies and "non-canon" in quotes", but the Franchise isn't just the movies. Or, maybe it is, if you as a fan consider it as such. The only thing objective we know right now is that RR is a "spin-off" as labeled by Dreamworks, and that in itself is open to interpretation.

We still don't know details about the "talking dragons" part. We need to see how it is handled. For all we know, the dragons were talking amongst themselves in the rest of the Franchise. They were most definitely communicating with each other (I'm not a proponent of this, but it is entirely feasible to integrate RR and everything else, to some fans). We also still don't know how RR relates to the Book series. It might just be loosely based on them, directly based off them, or a whole separate thing. I have tweeted Cressida Cowell today for clarification, but don't expect an answer :(  But what it will be may determine what we call it.

Who knows, maybe Hiccup or Toothless might be referenced somehow in the character's dialogue. What would such a reference make RR?

What if the dragons are dragon species spelled out in the rest of the Franchise? In the Book series? What about that connection?

If we can come up with some template that says something to the effect that RR is not connected with Hiccup's story, I would find that acceptable and true, well, if it is true. I suspect it is not, but again, we just can't be 100% sure at this point.