Board Thread:Wiki Improvement/@comment-27765057-20150409062833/@comment-3002957-20150409122320

Hmm, this is a tough one. I don't know where to put my hat and that is interesting. The reason for my impartialness is due to the fact that Solarestro started off as a recolor and I had no recolor template to work with before. So I was free to recolor and explore my character as I slowly moved him away from a recolor. So I can see how slapping a template stating that your character is a recolor could drive people into the mindset that 'maybe, I shouldn't work so hard on this anymore.'

But here is the other side of the story for me.

Knowing myself as a person, I know that I would be driven to work harder and make a none recolored picture of my character faster and do everything in my power to remove such a stigmatizing template. So it does serve a motivational purpose in that regard.

And those two things is what makes me kinda finicky on being for it or against it.

However...

Ever since the template and past few months (When edits where at a high point.) The articles that came in where of high quality and absolutely wonderous. There was no eye gouging recolor to be seen and while it may be that those recolors were deleted and maybe not posted in the first place. I could happily say that my eyes were safe from the likes of.. 'Negative Shadow' *shudders* and the sort.

So.. weighing it all together and thinking about the well being of the wiki. I think it would be best to keep the templates and hope that is helps spur people into creating their own original art pieces. I mean after all, your creations should be like your children and you would want the best looking pics of your own creation (Or other artists renditions of your character.)

I know that there will be run in with bad recolors because let's all admit it, we all started there at some point. But it is our job as a web site and small community to guide them and let them know right away that recolors are frowned upon. All we do is make it plain to see on their page and it then falls on them to improve their article with a wonderful picture of their own.

So long story short, I am against the notion of taking away the template.