Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1259419-20141127150517

In 2011 Jurassic Park: The Game was released. At first I thought all its material should be placed in a separate canon. I created articles accordingly. Later other users put forth strong indications that JP:TG was likely part of the film canon, and I changed my position.

However, a lot of users are against this decision. Here I list all arguments for placing JP:TG in the film canon, the common counter arguments and their rebuttal.

You are free to respond on this list and make your case against it. However, bare in mind that I have been hearing editors lamenting about this for over 3 years now and I have quite had it. So, please keep your arguments short and to the point. And do not repeat something that is essentially already on the list. Otherwise, I will ignore what you are writing.

Let me further note, for the sake of honesty, that I am very biased against people who complain about this decision. On this wiki we have a terminal shortage on good editors to write complete and up-to-date articles, create facebook posts, create YouTube videos or help with the mainpage. Ironically, we never have a shortage on people expressing their hate for, Spinosaurus and finally JP:TG. Therefore, I do not believe that (in most cases) the massive outcry to get JP:TG out of the movie canon stems from a genuine desire to help building this wiki. But rather from the irritating attitude of fans to dislike and vehemently hate any new media in their “favorite” franchise.

No official confirmation that it is canon
It is true, no official from Universal Studios has told us that JP:TG is a sequel to. Until Universal gives a public statement that JP:TG is canonial, we can't be sure. However, this is not an argument as solid as many of you like it to be.

When Universal released a teaser for it said that the first discovery of amber containing dinosaur DNA was made in the spring of 1990. Most of use would regard information in an official teaser as canon. However, the new Masrani website says that the first prehistoric animal was cloned by InGen in 1984. Therefore, this teaser, even while it is official, can not be regarded as film canon. Universal never made a statement that this teaser is to be regarded by fans as non-canonial. So, if we would maintain the rule that we can not make decisions on our own but always have to wait for the word of Universal, Jurassic Park is also about time travel!

It seems that Universal is not keeping a list of all items that are canonical, nor has any desire to create one. Producers simply do not care as much about continuity as fans do. The entire concept of separate Jurassic Park canons was first created by JPLegacy while building their encyclopedia. So, building a canon has always relied on educated guesses by the fans rather than the word of the producers.

Most of the time people do not care about these educated guesses. For example, until the Masrani website aired we did not knew for certain that the character of B.D. Wong was the Henry Wu from the novels. For all we knew, he was just a mere lab assistant that Hammond calls "Henry". Nonetheless, this wiki stored the information of this character in the Henry Wu article; and we were right. I can not remember ever hearing an outcry against this decision.

Please be patients while I'm writing the rest of this list.