Thread:Harry granger/@comment-162.207.250.87-20150903012225/@comment-24.182.195.2-20150903122232

No one is going to get into trouble! We're all Harry Potter fans and if we can't all work together as friends, who can?

My concern is that the Lexicon is a known "brand" in Harry Pottrer fandom, and my name and reputation are attached to that name. People know the Lexicon to be purely book canon, and they know that it is edited by researchers and librarians who are trained in this sort of thing. I've spent 15 years building that reputation and I don't want it messed up.

If fans are researching the canon and they find something from the "Harry Potter Lexicon," they assume that it's accurate to our very strict standards: only what is verified as being directly from Rowling. If someone searched the web for information and finds something from the films in "The Harry Potter Lexicon," they might not realize that it's actually from the Harry Potter Wiki, which as much lower standards of canon, and assume that we here at the original Lexicon have researched and discovered that Rowling personally created that film thing.

I'm particularly interested in protecting my brand since the Lexicon has been in a 3-year process of being revamped to modern web app standards. We'll be debuting the new version of the site in November. Anything you can do to help would be greatly appreciated. But like I said, no one is interested in causing trouble. Let's work together on this as fellow fans.

Thank you so much! Steve