I write much of the stuff on wikipedia,
Yeah, if you could, please stop doing that. Wikipedia is incorrect enough as it is. Stop adding to it.
And goddamn, how did I know this would happen. Dude--the reason EU is called EU is because it's NOT CANON. There's a reason there's a completely different name for it. How you can read Butler's shit so thoroughly, and then completely miss the most IMPORTANT DISTINCTION HE (and LFL and everyone else) is making is totally beyond me. Lets compare this to anatomy, alright? Here's the analogy.
Canon is this one guy. He's in the house, standing around, reading the paper. Let's call him John. This one guy has a cousin, who just got back from college. The cousin just came inside the house and started reading the paper with the one guy. Let's call this college kid Jerry. This would be like you saying "They're releated, so John IS Jerry. They're the same guy."
Yes, they're related. Yes they're in the same family. But they're not the same person, not even closely. One (John) is the son of the creator of the universe. The other is the son of the creator's merchandising whore siblings (Jerry) They are not the same person. Hell, even BUTLER admits this. And it appears never to have occurred to you that Butler MIGHT want to put so much emphasis on trying to get the EU to be accepted as ANY form of "canon" simply because he's put so much time INTO the thing it might just legitimize the 15 or so years he's wasted on that fuckin timeline of his? Because he's actually gotten to WRITE some of that EU at some point? Why do you think "G-Canon" and "C-Canon" were invented as terms a few years ago? To sucker the few remaining people who couldn't take the crushing blow to their fantasy network that what happened in their head isn't REALLY WHAT HAPPENED for everyone else.
And has been stated, LUCAS HIMSELF says that's the Death Star. THE Death Star, now you wanna do some retconning and stretching to make it fit in YOUR personal vision of Star Wars, that's cool. It's a fictional universe, NONE of it ever really happened, which is what makes these canon arguments so futile in the end. But your mental-gymnastics to make it fit with a bunch of shit books you read during a bored, Star Wars Jonesing period, aren't LAW. They aren't canon.
It's really about that simple.
And seriously, stop writing Wiki entries.