http://www.starwars.com/eu/news/2002/08 ... 0812c.htmlAllston was then deluged by questions about who would win in a fight, Luke vs. Kyp. "When people ask me do I think if Luke is stronger than Kyp, I refer them to the databank on starwars.com. Because that has the ultimate answer. If I answered it, I would providing a secondary source for an answer that doesn't require it. In competitions or combat, we don't think in terms of comparing numbers and rolling dice, even though many of us are roleplaying game writers. We think, 'What does the complete scene serve in the story?' and that pretty much dictates the course of the story."
I believe the Official authors think very highly of the Databanks canonisity, but many overlook them. The possible reason why they actually asked him was because people don't think the databanks are canon. I asked about it a few times in the past, but now wonder should the website be a high authority canon source. I mean it is officially liscensed material, and so forth, and can be updated as all the movies become finished. It is also possible that the EU authors use the databanks as an official source for information, does anyone know who wrote out all the data for the databanks, it was combined from Movie and EU sources and would be an ultimate source of official information. I don't think any of the info on the site contradicts the EU, as the information is based on the EU and the movies, and each character, species, organization, has an EU and Movie slot of info, but the site is completely overlooked by those who use sources. It is thought that since real world reports and so on classify the Internet as a Secondary source, that the databanks are a secondary source, but if the official authors are using it to write the books you consider canon than I can't see why it isn't, above the books.
