Board Thread:Wiki Discussions and Support/@comment-1783334-20150413163728/@comment-12002719-20150414161549

I think the best way to deal with canonical issues is to go back the original source, in Naruto's case, the manga. Everything that happens in the manga is indisputably canon. Of course, there are parts of the Naruto timeline that just aren't covered by the manga and are filled by other things. I would consider the anime second only to the manga, so I would consider the filler episodes canon but as an aside. They are just extra pieces of information added into the main story fitting into the expanded universe of Naruto. The games are a little bit different since they have their own adaptation of the story. The manga and anime supersedes the games, but the game techniques are still included in the jutsu listings as those things aren't covered in the anime or manga. Now that Naruto has come to an end I'm sure there will be an expanded universe created around it as people can never get enough of anything. I would just handle canonical questions like the Halo expanded universe does where the games supersede everything, the manga then the anime in this case, and then have things like the Naruto games and novels be secondary to the manga and anime and any things that are different can just be retconned with later publications. We might never get a official declaration of what constitutes as canon because then Kishi and the producers of Naruto would have to show an involved interest in the future of the series and they just might not be willing to do that. But in the meantime we can just have a blast deciding as a community what we want to think.

Or we can just sit here on the internet and argue over whether or not the manga master race is the best.