Are Newgrounds Characters allowed on Vsbattles?

[Redacted_Flinn]

You can probably guess what I want to discuss by the title... Since we already have some Newgrounds stuff like Sonny and Friday Night Funkin, I wanted to know where the limit to this stuff was... I wanted to make a page for Hobo from the Hobo fighting game series. I just wanted to make sure what the rules were since Vsbattles seems to be getting more and more strict as of late...

 

[Reiner04]

Move this to QnA

 

[Antvasima]

It seems more suitable to keep in our staff discussion, since it is about a policy issue.

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What do you think about this?

 

[DarkDragonMedeus]

Will post quick before I sleep I suppose. But in Sonny's case, it has been transferred to things like Mobile apps and Steam iirc. But even before it was on Newgrounds, it was on Kongregate I think. I'm unsure about Friday Night Funkin, aside from Pico appearing in that series. But he was originally from Pico's School series. I also vaguely recall us allowing the Eddsworld series too. Personally, I think Auron the Paladin series would also be fine. But I am unsure what the exact upper limit is at the moment.

 

[Agnaa]

I wouldn't really draw a distinction between Newgrounds and other websites for storing flash animations/games.

Really, it just needs to pass our general notability guidelines. Since those websites usually have view counts, the standard 1 million views should be a fine default bar.

 

[Antvasima]

I wouldn't really draw a distinction between Newgrounds and other websites for storing flash animations/games.

Really, it just needs to pass our general notability guidelines. Since those websites usually have view counts, the standard 1 million views should be a fine default bar.

I think that seems sensible.

Do we need to adjust any wording in our rules accordingly? I think that it is currently focused only on YouTube views.

 

[Agnaa]

Eh, probably not. We can't meaningfully rewrite that wording for every website where content can be uploaded.

 

[Antvasima]

I meant to make the wording more general for online video content, rather than only mentioning YouTube.

 

[Agnaa]

Ah okay, perhaps something like:

For non-curated online content that's not created by bigger companies we generally require that at least one entry in the canon has at least 1 million views on its own, unless that website is known to count views in a way that under-represents or over-represents them compared to websites such as YouTube.

 

[Antvasima]

Thank you. That seems quite good to me.

What do the rest of you think?

 

[LordGriffin1000]

I'm pretty much in the same position as Agnaa. Don't have much I can say on the matter.

 

[Antvasima]

Thank you for helping out.

 

[Salt-on-pizza]

You can probably guess what I want to discuss by the title... Since we already have some Newgrounds stuff like Sonny and Friday Night Funkin, I wanted to know where the limit to this stuff was... I wanted to make a page for Hobo from the Hobo fighting game series. I just wanted to make sure what the rules were since Vsbattles seems to be getting more and more strict as of late...

99.9% sure a Hobo profile would be ok