User talk:Grey Lurker

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Fanart
When you leave me messages on my talk page, please leave a signature or your username under the message. It's more convenient that way :)

As for fanart, we don't give credit for it. We don't see any reason artists who have already posted their work for easy viewing would mind us having it here. Also, this isn't an art gallery, so we see no real reason to give credit (other wikis that use fanart don't tend to).

If you have any additional comments though, just message me again.

User:Baam25th Whatever you desire, we have a page on it... Tower of God Wiki 02:45, September 20, 2012 (UTC)


 * Well, I do think it's a good idea to know where the art comes from only because they might have more fanart. Plus, there's the fact wikia has bots that seek out untagged images and delete them. --Grey Lurker (talk) 13:07, September 20, 2012 (UTC)


 * Image Hunter Bots? Haven't heard of those... but that could be a potential problem... I will think about it.
 * As for art sources, you can pretty much look stuff up on the Batoto fanart thread... but it might be a good idea to have a page listing some of the places which produce a lot of fanart (artists who have, say, 10 or more ToG drawings).
 * BTW, I noticed that someone recently uploaded a barrage of fanart images onto the wiki. Does this have anything to do with you? ;P
 * I await you at the top... Whatever you desire, we have a page on it... Tower of God Wiki 01:58, September 21, 2012 (UTC)
 * Hello, it was me who uploaded 44 recent fanart to the wiki on Sep 18. Then I made this* blog post. But realizing how incredibly stupid I was by not gathering sources I changed my mind a day later.
 * The problem in my view is that even if we manage to give credit to them (a few are from unknown sources, so it would be hard), I fear that artists might not like to be exposed like this. Call me a paranoid, but with this weight in my conscience I decided to rollback all my work and added the 44 photos and the blog page to Category:Candidates for deletion.
 * Still, even if i made that decision its up to the community and admins to decide and delete it or not. So what do u people think? Should we tag all of them with sources and bear with possible consequences or just delete?
 * EDIT: *This blog post: http://towerofgod.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Astralac/Fanart?oldid=26241
 * Astralac (talk) 00:40, September 24, 2012 (UTC)


 * Sorry for the late reply. Anyway, I've seen enough complaints about fanart being used without telling the artists' knowledge or consent to know this is a BIG issue with many of them. I know Japanese artists DO get annoyed with this to the point some of them have "no permission" banners on their art pages.

At the very least, fanartists do want some credit and a link to there pages. -Grey Lurker (talk) 14:54, January 3, 2013 (UTC)