Talk:Guidelines

Fanart
Is there agreement on this new guideline? Reading what was shared in past threads and during my time on this wiki, I was under the impression that there was consensus that as long as the fanart wasn't on the character's page, and as long as it wasn't too much, there was no problem with fanart. Coquidragon (talk) 09:28, November 7, 2014 (UTC)
 * Fanarts - No fanarts under any circumstances should be placed in Image Galleries, Only images from official sources, such as the manga, anime, and databooks, may be placed.

Yeah fanarts shouldn't be on character pages, but they shouldn't be on Image Galleries as well. Since the Image Galleries is used as a page to show images of that character. And if we allow one user to upload fanarts in image galleries, then other users would eventually follow pursuit, and instead of a wikia, we'll end up as a fanart collection site, so fanarts should not be allowed in Image Gallery or any relevant pages. 20:50,11/7/2014

There is this conversation between two admins last year. There are also conversations about fanart in other forum/blogs where the consensus was what I just expressed. Since now we can use tabs for image galleries, a tab for fan art wouldn't be a problem. It would be separate from the rest of the images, and we can also moderate them. I mean, I don't care one way or another, since I don't upload fanart, but my question came as to how was this desicion made, since the several times the issue has been raised, no desicion was taken to prohibit it.Coquidragon (talk) 04:30, November 8, 2014 (UTC)


 * Here is the latest exchange of which I am aware, and here was Dig's opinion about it:
 * "Also the image galleries are fine in my opinion, the fact that you have to click a link to get to them means that they aren't spamming up the main article, so I feel no reason to reduce the amount of images. If the majority of others feel that there are too many images then I would support removing some but as they are now I feel it's fine(including fanart)." (Oct. 13, 2014)
 * I have created a thread for this discussion. --Coquidragon (talk) 04:38, November 8, 2014 (UTC)