The Sims Wiki talk:Fanon Portal

open?
Is the fanon name-space open now?-- CookieMonster888 talk 01:41, February 24, 2011 (UTC)
 * Yep. — Random Ranaun ( Talk to me! ) 06:05, February 24, 2011 (UTC)

Featured Fan fiction and Fanon
When do you think the Featured Fanon and Featured Fan fiction should be opened? Once the Fanon Namespace reaches a certain amount of articles? — Random Ranaun ( Talk to me! ) 06:05, February 24, 2011 (UTC)
 * We could start it after a month of the fanon namespace being officially open and when we have enough articles to nominate. GG   (t)  •  (c)  •  (b)  08:14, February 24, 2011 (UTC)

Player stories
What do you think we should do about player stories. Since we allow full fanon here at the Fanon Namespace, some might find in unnecessary and redundant. What do you think? Should we keep player stories or remove them? — Random Ranaun ( Talk to me! ) 00:46, February 26, 2011 (UTC)

Allowed/Not Allowed photos?
I see that a user uploaded images that aren't Sims-related as part of a Fanon Story. I'm not sure if we should adopt a rule regarding this, but I think it's worth discussing. --  LostInRiverview talk · blog 17:18, February 26, 2011 (UTC)
 * Maybe the only non-Sims related images allowed should be logo images for Fan fiction and Machinima? — Random Ranaun ( Talk to me! ) 17:26, February 26, 2011 (UTC)
 * Per my comments on the Admin Portal, I don't think we should allow it as it can be seen as a breach of personal privacy (if other people are in the image) and it may be considered as image hosting. -- 17:30, February 26, 2011 (UTC)
 * Georgie, just moments after I posted here, posted the same question (much more eloquently) on the Admin Portal talk page. I've decided to copy over his posting for community discussion. Here it is:

Today, I had deleted many images uploaded by which were used on Fanon:The Applewhites. The images were a possible invasion of privacy and were in fact removed from the page by the author not long after he had added them. He never tagged the images for deletion, so I had deleted them as they were being used like the wiki was an image hosting site. I had blocked the user for this but then realised that this wasn't a rule, so I undid the block.

The reason I am bringing this up is - should we have a rule about uploading real life images to the wiki for usage in fanon? Personally I would say no as it can breach the privacy of other people and the fanon namespace is suppossed to be about Sims fanon anyway and having those images would be like image hosting. I would like other administrators to voice their opinions on this. 17:23, February 26, 2011 (UTC)


 * Responding to this, I am willing to say that if an image isn't related to The Sims series or to the subject of a page on the wiki (including fanon), then it should be deleted - The Sims Wiki isn't a hosting website, after all. Aside from that, I'm interested in seeing what everyone else has to say. --  LostInRiverview talk · blog 17:31, February 26, 2011 (UTC)
 * I agree with LiR. The only images allowed should be related to The Sims or the subject of the wiki. — Random Ranaun ( Talk to me! ) 19:19, February 26, 2011 (UTC)

Don't like the logo
I noticed that the fanon logo has been added. The reason I didn't vote in the contest is because I didn't like any of the logos. Not nearly enough people participated in or voted in that contest, in my opinion, and there was no option for those of us who didn't like any of the options. I'd rather we just get rid of the logo and leave it off until we find one that gets real popular support. --  LostInRiverview talk · blog 06:05, March 9, 2011 (UTC)