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Originally Posted by alanHd
While I agree with this to a certain point, doesn't the vastness of the internet and the multitude of people, make it more likely that any significant changes would be spotted.
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Yes absolutely, I agree it's far harder for changes to go unnoticed and reported.
But if someone is searching for certainty - the canon - in some situations it is substituting one problem for another. What if it's the author that makes the change from one version to the next? What weight should be given to that?
Another example is via movie and tv 'tie in' books that are popular now. I've started reading Star Trek books, and I feel a bit uncertain when the author goes in a different direction than the tv series, or kills off a main character - do I accept that?
Should I give it more weight to the books, if the author worked on the original tv series? Or should I just treat the earlier tv shows as the official canon?
I know Star Trek is trivial compared to Karl Marx - but what if someone dedicates their lives to his vision, and then Marx's diary is found, and his thinking evolved in a different direction? Or he wrote a revision, but was he killed and it was suppressed before he could publish it?
It's very important to try to nail down the canon, but there is often level of uncertainty.