Forum:How to handle fan art

Introduction


Users are starting to upload their own fan art pictures. Many will wind up on the User's own page, but a few have already been added to the article pages for the characters they portray. The fan art has been removed from those pages until such time as a formal decision can be made about how to handle fan art.

Some fan art can be classified as speculation, since they haven't happened in an episode yet, and we already have a policy in place about speculation. However, a lot of fan art is a tribute to the show and the characters. In these cases, they aren't trying to alter the P&F "universe", so simply prohibiting all fan art is not a good idea.

The pictures to the right show both cases. As far as I can remember, Jeremy and Candace haven't kissed yet, but probably will, given how their relationship is progressing. The lower picture is an interpretation of an event that has been seen in an episode.

This forum is to discuss ideas on how people can show off their talents without preventing the article and character pages from being as factual as possible.

Please submit your ideas and cast your votes here. Number each new idea and sign your name with  —~  at the end. Create a new indented bullet point (:*) under an individual item if you want to vote for that item or have further input on it.

Ideas for how to permit fan art in this Wiki
1. Create a single page where all fan art can be displayed, regardless of what it relates to.
 * add your information or cast your votes here

2. Create a link that will take you to a fan art page for that character or episode.
 * We are already migrating to separate Gallery pages to allow more images to be added without making the main character and episode pages too unwieldy and long. See "Rollercoaster" for an example of how this is done. Another link could be added for the fan art Gallery. Galleries like this have to be manually updated, but allow for a preface to be added that explains the purpose of the page and/or provides details about the people that drew the pictures.

3. Create a category to tag these images, such as "Category:Fan art-Phineas Flynn" to match the "Category:Phineas Flynn images" category now in use.
 * Refer the Background Information section on the page for Phineas to see the link to the page that automatically displays all images marked with this Category.

4. Create the separate gallery, but still use the Category tag to help organize the images (#2 and #3 together).
 * This gives us the ability to customize how the images are displayed. — RRabbit42 23:04, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

Fan art should be confined to the User pages
Cast your vote here if you feel that the people who drew the fan art should only post it on their own User pages.

No fan art should be allowed
Cast your vote here if you feel that no fan art of any kind should be allowed.

Voting period
Voting will end at 23:59 UTC on Saturday, March 16, 2009. Please add all new ideas no later than Saturday, March 9, to give everyone a chance to look the recommendations over and decide on a final vote in case they want to change their vote.