Board Thread:Wiki Improvement/@comment-11776673-20160605010241/@comment-4748628-20160606182627

Chamesthehero wrote: Smash The Echidna wrote: Okay, seriously speaking. I barely see any new recolors on here anymore. The only people voting no are just fooling around. We have dollmakers and plenty of people doing art requests.

Give me one good, legitimate reason why we should keep recolors at this point. Recolors set the standard (in terms of quality) of what we should avoid doing in order to create characters. However, in that case, I would much rather have standard of what a nice article looks like instead of the former. The former just piles up and gives us a worse reputation.

Truth is, not all characters are bad because of their lazy, poor designs. Some of them even became award-winning characters. What makes us different from art-sites like deviantART is that we generally look at a character as a whole (history, personality, powers) and not just their designs.

In the end, though, art-theft should not be encouraged. One of the reasons artists I've talked to were hesistant to come here was because of it. Banning something that holds us back would be a step forward. The concept behind this is to try and ban the recolored artwork, not necessarily the characters themselves. That being said, I think once it's implemented, the punishment for ignoring the policy should be the deletion of the entire page. It gets the point across and it's not like it's irreversible.