Board Thread:Administrative Discussions/@comment-1824272-20171212161313/@comment-1824272-20171212221814

To address everyone's concerns, you're all absolutely on the money that we need to keep any potential influx of fan art in check.

The suggestion of having a selection of reviewers to approve or deny certain fan art as "encyclopedic" would pretty much fall under the umbrella of administrators or moderators anyway. We don't have enough active users to really split the roles up like that.

The wiki's rules will definitely have to be adjusted since they currently describe a "no tolerance" policy for fan art, yet we've had some uses of fan art like the following:

Currently, fan-made materials are simply described as such in their file description pages. If you click on any of the images above in a new tab, you'll see the fileinfo template at the bottom that describes it and sources it. We've been using this template as a standard for proper file sourcing for a couple of years now.

I don't know how feasible or helpful it would be to have a watermark on every fan artwork that gets uploaded to the wiki. Additionally, we can't easily describe map images as fan art in infoboxes. And maintaining "agreements" or "partnerships" between communities and artists seems like it could cause bureaucratic headaches for everyone involved.

I'm wondering if we could try something different: opening a topic like this every time we come across fan art or are offered fan art that could be used for the wiki, and having a community discussion as we have right now. Then on the file info for each piece of fan artwork, we could link back to the discussion thread for that specifically related fan art? For example, in this thread, we could have Zaku verify the accuracy of the maps. What do you guys think about that? It would help us manage fan art on a case-by-case basis, and admins can come in with an automatic veto.