Talk:Great Sundial

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On this page, it seems to imply that the kanoka effect was permanent consistent with what Greg claimed but counter to what is said in Time Trap. If it is still small, should it status be "Diminished", and if it is regular size, than it should be mentioned on the page. Firespitter Lhii (talk) 13:05, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

Hours

I removed the claim that the sundial represents an 18 hour day, and User:Surel-nuva reverted, with "As far as I know this was a Bionicle Story Squad addition, like the metallic bone structure. It's just lost media". Dumping some Greg quotes here:

More on generally avoiding the sundial:

I don't doubt what you're saying about the story squad. I wasn't super active on BZP back in the day so I'm not really sure how it functioned (and no clue what "metallic bone structure" is referring to - another canonization?). If it was canonized though, Greg quickly forgot about it and is otherwise pretty consistent about not wanting to touch anything about the sundial, and resistant to relating it to actual timekeeping. Either way, restoring the info with a citation needed tag really doesn't seem acceptable here. After all, what's to stop someone like me who sees an unverifable fact and doesn't know arcane Bionicle forum lore from coming along next year and removing it again?

And so I did some Googling and could find this bonesii post soon after the announcement, this thread discussing it as lost after a user added it to the page here, and it's inclusion in Dag's list of lost BSS topics.

Personally I think it's good to include it with a note that it came from BSS, is now lost, and contradicts the direct word of GregF. I'd say the BZP threads are more than enough indication that this did occur. I wish someone had added a note on it back then though lol!

I'm glad I went down the rabbit hole of tracking it down and documenting it here. Hopefully saves the next person the trouble. We won't recover the lost media but we can document its existence. ChroniclerTakanuva (talk) 06:18, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

I see where you're coming from, I'm just at work, so I planned to add them after my shift ends. :) --SurelNuva (Talk) 07:15, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
Reading back, I could see I may have come off as hostile. If I did, it wasn't my intent and I apologize. More I wanted to document the rabbithole I went down to find this, and hopefully document it for posterity. I'm glad you could give me enough to point me in the right direction! best, ChroniclerTakanuva (talk) 15:08, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
You weren't come off as hostile, I just felt like I should explain the reversing from my side. You actually made a fine job with the note explaining the controversy on the topic!--SurelNuva (Talk) 15:55, 6 March 2024 (UTC)