Fang Zei said:

I disagree that "the old EU was never considered canon." Everything from Zahn onwards was certainly considered canon. As I recall, it wasn't until 2008 clone wars that the idea of the different "levels" of canon was introduced. That show set such a giant precedent of overwriting EU it was covering the same ground as (in this case the previous clone wars stuff from 2002-2005).

There are no different levels of canon. Am I wrong? (true question, not playing smartass here.) To me there is canon and not. So it you say that the official canon/ not canon "rule" has officialy started in 2008, then everything E.U before 2008 cannot be considered canon or not in a way, because "canon" did not exist. What existed though is words from Lucasfilm saying that the stories of these books could possibly not be taken as a basis for future movies if Lucas wanted to make more.