Canon is defined as the bodies of work that are considered to be "genuine" or "official" within a certain fictional universe. In the case of LOST, the only canon source of information is the television series itself. While the creators of LOST have never explicitly stated their views on the canonicity of the LOST novels, websites, etc., we at the LOST Wikia have chosen to accept information from all official sources of LOST story material. In the case of contradictory information, we utilize the following to determine which facts are "true."