Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26174543-20190610213638

I know this is an old issue, but I think it's worth bringing up again. I was thinking about it earlier today because I found it somewhat strange that we've been approving ichika's fan art for character icons while the art itself would never be approved for use in a wikia article. the main argument for taking illustrator fan art down before was that it could be confusing, but the fact that some art is canon compliant enough to be used to represent a character as a whole is proof enough that that claim doesn't hold water acoss the board, especially if we were to label illustrator fan art as such.

moreover, I was thinking it over and I find that case strengthened by the fact that there is officially available illustrator fanart not just in official content, but available on the wikia. some of which depict things in a way that aren't exactly canon-compliant this is even sometimes done in the novels themselves, such as praefacio of blue or heavenly

I don't think this:

is less potentially confusing than this:

that's not to say that I necessarily have an issue with either of these things, but they seem inconsistent with the reasoning used to cut illustrator fan art out of character pages when a more even middle ground could've been met at the time

all that said, I think creating an illustrator fan art tab for the galleries would be useful, especially for characters who have very few or even no canon illustrations. though I also think it would be reasonable to limit the illustrations used for these tab (especially for characters that have quite a few more illustrations than others, such as rilliane and allen), even if that'd mean limiting it specifically to ichika illustrations as her art is generally considered closer to canon than most

I'd be willing to create and organize these tabs myself if this gets approved and any potential limitations are decided on 