Talk:DJ Pon-3/@comment-128.29.43.3-20120620001926/@comment-76.182.95.138-20120625111416

To post a rebuttal to the first person to respond to this post, the fandom IS the primary source in this case, since it's the source being USED by the 'official' sources. While it's true that the fandom isn't always conistant in what it say's, if you look in enough places you'll see some things that are ubiquitous, such as the names Lyra or Vinyl Scratch. Hasbro is pandering to the fandom here, and basically everthing that is fannon, with the exception of pieces that aren't really appropriate for the show's primary audience, has become cannon. Even the name Derpy, for goodness sakes. Of course, not everything in the fandom is official, but there are a great deal of things that everybody online agrees upon, and considering that every single one of those things has either been referenced (such as Doctor Whooves) or actually been confirmed (such as Lyra's name), I see no reason why we can't count them as official. Obviously we shouldn't beleive the lunatic fringe or crack-fic writers, but just becuase they're nutso, that doesn't mean that fannon cannnot be considered a legitamite source, since there actually is a difference between fannon and what some nutjob includes in their fanfic.