Thread:Zelron/@comment-25173123-20140805053315/@comment-25173123-20140806092725

Fan art gives "no valuable information" in the same way Lore discussion, Trivia and Concept Art give no valuable information. What they give is an added involvement with characters in game.

You can say most images on this Wikia have "no valuable information" to them because they offer little more then the image added before it offered. (in most cases)

So we are now leaning towards the point of images needing to have a value added requirement? Who is determining that...? (let me guess...) Are we going to attach a value policy onto the media policy?

As discussed on the old policy thread, this wikia is about giving information. But it can't be simply clinical information or we lose the interest of the people quicker then Wiki did. (Why are we not all there instead of here in the Wikia? Because it is too restrictive and lacks a fan feel to the Wiki.)

Fan art is an added bonus as is the Lore, Concept Art and Trivia items. They allow fans to be fans. This is not a hospital where we are having people line up to get their injections of game stats and information without even the offer of a lollipop to suck on. This is more like a campus coffee house where we discuss lessons learned for the day but also converse on how we enjoyed the day and our thoughts on the subjects at hand. And in doing so we become a Wikia family and not an Asylum that is dishing out pills to keep the inmates at bay, like Nurse Ratched. You guys want to be Nurse Ratched then so be it, I'd rather toss the heavy marble block through the window and find a better place then the Asylum.

We all heard the motto "if it ain't broke then don't fix it" well Fan Art in itself is not hurting anyone. It does not detract from the Wikia any more then some of the other information we put on this Wikia. Basically it ain't broke.

As long as it doesn't break any copyright rules then leave it be. It sits in the gallery with the other images and I find it to be an additive without being an undo burden to the stats and other info that is being supplied above it. I have yet to see any pages weighted down by an overloaded amount of Fan Art images. And we are deleteing things on this Wikia that users have been enjoying for 3 years or so. Why are we now suddenly deleting everything?

Why is it that one individual can choose to delete Fan Art under his own assumptions of policy but others can't add Fan Art under the fact the policy has no valid reason to eliminate it from our gallery?

Uniformity is good, but this is getting to the point of a Germaphobe needing to delete anything that doesn't fit their definition of value.

So the consensus from what I have seen so far points to Fan Art being a valid inclusive item in this Wikia. With only one person that I have seen having great distress with it being in the Wikia. To the point of deleting the items with no discussion on the matter with any other users. And the same said person is upset because change to policy page to clarify it is not against said policy is wrong without discussion on it? How does that fly?

Hey... I again am talking more then is needed. But let's do the right thing instead of the clinical delete anything that doesn't fit into the official square peg mentality. I don't like censorship but having military background I do like order too. Thing is we can have order without needing to be little Napoleons about things.

~Hollow till the day I live.