Is Fallout Wiki the end all source for fallout canon?

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Quagmire69

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I used to think so but recently I noticed that several things have changed over time. For instance, Father Elijah use to Very Evil, now he's Neutral, Lianis use to Neurtal, now he's Very Evil, Autum use to be Evil, now he's Very Evil.

The page on the Legion is probably the most butchered of all pages, I have personally noticed it changed on around five different occasions, no this is updated or added onto but directly overwretten. Second place is the NCR page.

While many have used its info saying that SM and Ghouls are accepted in arguements against me, know their is info that more backs up my opinions making me wonder if as a source its the end all.
 
Yes it is.

Also it is a wiki, which means everyone can edit, change and correct articles, which then means, that stuff can change all the time.
 
Yes it is.

I for one have never seen any false information (or at least blatantly false information) on it.

Edit: Doesn't Ausir do a lot of the editing on the wiki? He does know a lot about Fallout. :?
 
The wiki is pretty much trancripts from the games and official supporting material, when a piece of information status as canon is ambiguous it is always marked as such, if the information changes is because people reedit the way some people wrote the information originaly or when someone writes soemthing misinformed, the wiki is pretty much the place to go for canon research.

Who is Lianis? someone from Fallout 3?
 
I never really understood the arguement that just because it is free to edit then it must be of ambigous validity. The Vault has an excellent administration team to deal with the crap and the majority of infomation is sourced.

Thank you Vault Wikia for the hours of reading time you have given me. :clap:
 
The Vault is the best source for information from Fallout games, that's for certain. About some members of it, not so sure, but main thing is that admins are okay.

It's normal that some pages are "butchered", mainly because they are still in-making and information are still coming around from new sources. You can help of course, just be sure to check the policy.
 
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Considering Bethesda (and probably Obsidian) used it to double-check while working on Fallout 3 (and New Vegas), I'd say so, yes.

Of course, Fallout canon is starting to be bugged by conflicts and problems. Who knows how long it'll last as a serious, consistent canon.

The Enclave 86 said:
I never really understood the arguement that just because it is free to edit then it must be of ambigous validity.
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That's not so much an argument as a fact. Wiki tech can never really be a valid source in the way sources whose authors are held up to standards and/or peer review (like journalists or scientists) are. What that means is another matter, especially for Wikia, which doesn't deal with serious topics, just hobbies.
 
Quagmire69 said:
While many have used its info saying that SM and Ghouls are accepted in arguements against me, know their is info that more backs up my opinions making me wonder if as a source its the end all.
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For one thing, they all played the original games over a hundred times. Same old content. Basically carved into your brain, never to forget. If you're talking about the original authors argument to what the ghouls are and how they became to be then it's a free thought since they too can't decide on that. Well they never did anyway...

What about Super Mutants?
 
Well Quagmire is doubting the wikia because he can't find a reference to the NCR's Mass Ghoul Destruction plans for after the Second Battle of Hoover Dam.
 
Walpknut said:
Well Quagmire is doubting the wikia because he can't find a reference to the NCR's Mass Ghoul Destruction plans for after the Second Battle of Hoover Dam.
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Or the proper ending where waves of Enclave who survived by hanging around under beds and behind fridges arrive to beat of the nasty NCR and their ghoul killing ways before giving everyone ice cream and hugs.

Only dodgy bit with the wikia is the reference bits as some of those are really stretching it.
Some of it's like "Jeff in Rivet City was named after *insert famous Jeff from a movie or history*" or "The pram model is a reference to *insert movie with a pram in it*".
 
Yeah, but that happens on Wiki pages for everything. A cigar can't just be a cigar, it has to be a reference X, because shit can't just be shit, it has to be injoke shit.
 
Alphadrop said:
Only dodgy bit with the wikia is the reference bits as some of those are really stretching it.
Some of it's like "Jeff in Rivet City was named after *insert famous Jeff from a movie or history*" or "The pram model is a reference to *insert movie with a pram in it*".
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Yes, I wish this stuff would be totally cut out, at least until it is 100% proven.
 
Since we're already mentioning The Vault and wikias, what are you usernames on those? Aside from the obvious ones, that is...
I'm trying to draw a parallel between people here and there, because I'd like to know to whose posts/comments am I replying.
 
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