Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24935524-20140808151249/@comment-10558422-20140811180709

I agree with Banksia that finding fanart is an easy thing to search for and that it counteracts with the main purpose of a wiki - a storage of factual information about a certain topic. I think from an outsiders point of view, you know that a wiki is a collaborative project by users, meaning that anyone can edit and add information. When you look at something like the Zelda Wiki, you can tell from the get go that it is well maintained with up to date images and information. If I saw fanart on a wiki, my first thought would be 'Oh, if there is fanart on here that must mean this wiki is not very reliable, since there must be no prominent users here to remove/change these images'. Basically, fanart is normally something a vandal would add since it goes against common 'wiki rules'.

From that perspective, I guess it seems weird that these images where never removed before. It always bothered me especially in the character galleries, but I think I never deleted them because the originals were uploaded by an admin, with the more recent fanart just sticking since there was already fanart on here. I'm guessing that the first fanart images were added because there was so few images when this wiki started, but now we have many official ones, fartart no longer seems like a way to 'bulk up', non?

But if you still think that fanart is important, SuperMario2, then I suppose we could find a middle ground for now and see from there? If we made a 'Fanart' category page and moved all fanart to there and there only, we can survey people if they prefer the new layout that discludes these images from the galleries. If yes, then the page and the fanart can be deleted. I know it sounds like a needlessly long way of doing things, but that way I guess all of us is at least happy temporarily? *Shrugs*