I'd suggest "Original" and "Reboot", but that may be too Star Trek-oriented.

"Lucas" and "Disney"?

I even work with canons where that is a major, major issue, and it never crossed my mind this morning!

I remember also (now that I am thinking) that there is discussion of which one is considered primary? There was some video game that was used as an example for this. Maybe Resident Evil or Castlevania. Tolkien works well though for the discussion. The written materials can always influence what we know about the movies. If there are details not otherwise specified in the movies, it defaults to what is written. However, in a case where the movie adds random crap information to canon that information can only apply to the movie!verse. It doesn't reverse influence.

I'd see the Star Wars EU the same way, only the movies are first and the primary canon. The movies can influence and over write the EU, but the EU can't go over the movies.

So, totally a long-winded way of saying, I totally agree with you. ;)

...but that seems about right, going by evidence in-canon.

Let's list the facts we have:

-Harry joined the Council at sixteen, but he was special circumstances. And he thought he'd be training with DuMorne for tenish years, IIRC.

-Molly... well, Ghost Story happened, and then Cold Days, so I don't think she ever became a Council wizard, though she's certainly not Harry's apprentice anymore.

-Carlos was an apprentice in Summer Knight and Regional Commander of the Wardens in Dead Beat, and he was, I think, twenty-five-ish then, so that adds evidence.

I can't think of anyone else, but I don't have any of the books, so I could very well be blanking. I'll just add that, given when you've set it, the Council is at full-out war against the Red Court, so they'll probably be promoting people as quick as they can, especially if they have an aptitude for evocation or other Warden-y things or healing, probably. (Example: Camp Kaboom.)

I hope I could help; I was just going off my memory, here.

-Aila

PS: Speaking of, do you know the Night Vale canon? I have a Dresden Files/Night Vale crossover that really needs a beta, but knowledge of both canons, up to Lazy Day at least for Night Vale, is a necessity.

In the Legacy of Kain section, it seems perfectly natural to ignore contradictions of canon in fics that were written in-between games.

Basically if you explore a pet theory that is neither cannon or against canon, and then it gets contradicted later, it is still acceptable.

I think it's probably safe to assume that a lot of the smaller side stories of the EU will escape largely unscathed. I would think that in this case it might be best to go with, 'it's canon until it isn't.' If that makes sense?

Like Wedge Antilles. If he's never mentioned in the new stuff, then what is there to say that the reports from the EU that have him continuing to pilot an X-wing and eventually get promoted to General and be in charge of several groups of X-wings is not what happened to him?

As long as he isn't specifically mentioned in the new canon materials, it makes sense to just take the EU stuff about him as his canon.

Where it gets complicated is when one of those side stories does have something potentially significant. Wedge did help take down Coruscant, and that is a pretty big event that might well get contradicted in the new movies. In which case, does that throw out all of his canon from EU, or only that part of it?