Forum:Fanon for other player's works: Difference between revisions

'''Support only allowing original work to be placed in the Fanon Portal.''' Because the stuff in our Fanon namespace is generally considered to be the property of those who originally created it (as the {{tl|Property}} template itself suggests), then it should only make sense that all pages created in there be of subjects that were actually created by the author of the fanon in question. Imagine if someone else created a fanon page of ''your'' Sim on this wiki and you weren't allowed to edit it because your name wasn't on the {{tl|Property}} template! Since people who create Sims, houses, and neighborhoods/worlds in The Sims generally consider themselves to have control over the distribution of it (such as on MTS where creators can set their own policies permitting or forbidding the redistribution of their work), we should respect the original creator's wishes and not permit the creation of Fanon pages here ''if'' the subjects were not created by the author.

That being said, I don't want to be a killjoy and put an end to the free reuse of other works. Since we do have fanon pages of premade Sims and neighborhoods/worlds, it would be nice if we had some sort of a method of accomplishing this. I would say that such fanon are permitted ''if'' they include at least some degree of original content. Just as people have made fanon from canon, it is possible for them to make fanon out of fanon; it should be permissible to create a fanon page ''based'' on another fanon Sim, but it needs to have ''some'' original content (e.g. Batman (canon; superhero) --> Fatman (fanon; superhero wannabe but wastes too much time eating) --> Fatty McFatman (fanon of fanon; superhero wannabe that eats himself broke at McDonalds and then ironically needs to get a job there to make ends meet)). I'm not 100% sure of the best way to accomplish this (perhaps a templated message will work?), or what we should do if for some reason the original fanon author wants all of these recreations taken down. —[[User:K6ka|'''<span style="color:#0040FF">k6ka</span>''']] <span title="Canadian!" style="color:red">🍁</span> ([[User talk:K6ka|<span style="color:#0080FF">Talk</span>]] · [[Special:Contributions/K6ka|<span style="color:#0B4C5F">Contributions</span>]]) 20:42, April 28, 2018 (UTC)