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Hi there. My favorite period is early history of the Traveller, particularly the Interstellar Wars. I am coming across some issues with date conflicts in entering events and wanted to know if there is a an order of precedence in order to resolve them. I see that year entries are in Imperial Years. No problem there. It is in resolving dates between sources.

Types of Conflicts

• "Real life events" - A few of the entries list real life events like first Solomani spaceflight in -2555 (resolves to 1967AD from the date template) If it is different, should the Imperial Year be used from the source canonically regardless of it's "real life" date (as the OTU is a "different universe") or should I find the appropriated Imperial Year to match the AD Year
• Date conflicts between sources - As my focus is the Interstellar Wars period, I come across date conflicts between sources like the new Mongoose Solomani AM, GURPS-IW, Reft Sector, the old Solomani AM and others. I can calculate the appropriate Imperial Year for Solomani AD references by playing with the date template, then creating the appropriate year entry. The problem is that Imperial year for events conflict. Mongoose is more recent, IW is more complete, etc. Is there a proper method? Use the more recent (Mongoose), use the more complete (IW), use "consensus" (more sources list the same date) or another method? I would lean towards GURPS IW because it is far more detailed than any other source, but as they say, I am not the only one here

~~Nathan Brazil~~

The conflicts of canon is not a new issue. There are examples scattered throughout the entire wiki (see, for example, Beyond Sector which has been done several times). Generally the author of the articles picks one and leaves a note regarding the conflict on the talk page of the article. Sometimes we can hand wave off the differences (e.g. Solomani spaceflight as the moon landing rather than first orbit). If you find a particularly egregious conflict you can post a forum note and we can take a look and find a solution. Tjoneslo (talk) 16:09, 5 April 2013 (EDT)