User blog comment:Genetic Freak/JP: The Game is NOT canon./@comment-3213993-20141124063521/@comment-1791057-20141124193606

That's a major misconception, actually. The Research Staff don't exact decide what is and isn't canon. Like a science experiment, the Staff follow where the evidence takes them and analyze it and place their conclusions into their articles. As ex-staff myself, I cannot tell you how many times we've had ideas either take us to places we'd never even think of (such as the anaylsis we did on the novel Raptors), or just plain take us to a dead end (such as sexual dimorphism in the Compies and Stegos, and the various color patterns the Paras have in the series). Usually when we have evidence that takes us to a dead end and we can't even analyze it, we just place the evidence in the articles and let the reader make their own judgements. That's how science is, really. You publish the evidence and your conclusions, and let the readers decide whether they want to believe it or not. We never place anything in the articles we can't back up, and that's the same way it is on this Wiki and every single other Wiki. If it's able to be backed up with evidence, we put it in the article.