Board Thread:Administrative Discussions/@comment-1824272-20171212161313/@comment-4503347-20171212183730

It is understandable that these maps can be useful as long as they are informative and accurate, hence there is a possible desire for such maps to be used here.

At the moment, the fan art rule will inhibit such pictures from being hosted on this wiki. If we are to allow fan maps, which are regarded as fan art at the moment, in this wiki, then we will have to do something about the existing rules to avoid (or at least to minimise) unforeseen consequences.

One concern is what unofficial / derivative work we will allow precisely. Personally I don't want fan arts to flood in, then to have various people arguing what is more genuine / superior to be used on the wiki over those we may have accepted; we can potentially face a lot of grey area here. To somewhat solve this (should the community accept the host of these works on the wiki), I propose an agreement between communities / creators for those that will be deemed acceptable and informative for use on Acepedia. The fan art rule will have to be altered as a result to show such exception for selective unofficial work to be used on the wiki with explicit reasons backing such motive. In other words, the agreement(s) would be clear and public so everyone can see and understand. On the other hand, we may also need to consider such agreements on unofficial translations used on Acepedia, namely World News articles and Project Nemo for Japanese version of Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere.

As Sly has also mentioned we have other existing pictures that would technically also fall under the fan art category. Some of them are icons which are used in support of information presentation rather than being the information themselves, whereas a couple of others aren't. We will also have to do something about them, i.e. whether we should purge such pictures and replace them with pictures that will comply with the current rules, or make "exception clause" of some sort to reflect on the situation we are in right now.