User blog comment:Aetherium/The Books/The Series/@comment-26308-20130504091132

I appreciate the idea of making the wiki 'purely' about the TV show with no reference to the books at all, and I did consider this when I founded the Wiki. However, wikis are supposed to be about giving the reader as much information as possible, not sealing it away from them. The TV show is based on a series of books and it is certainly valid to compare the two mediums, to see what has changed. In addition, whilst the books are not automatically canon for the TV show, they do have interesting background information and tidbits on the characters and world that may be of use for a TV-only viewer.

So for example, the fact that the Wall is 300 miles long has not been mentioned on TV, but it has in the books, and the TV viewer will find it useful to know just exactly how massive it is. If the TV show later says it is a different size, we can also relate that information as well.