You're really playing the victim in all of this? You really ran to the mods the second I told you you're lucky I didn't report you for vandalism?
Im not a victim of anything, although 'you're lucky i didnt report you for vandalism' (which i didnt do) sounds a bit threatening
Users won't "have time to change everything", because nobody is working on the issue at all, and you are refusing to do it yourself, so what you are asking me to do is just not add profiles to the verse page for all eternity... and that's IF such a massive change won't need a CRT.
I'm not refusing, it just is a huge task to replace all this fanart thats been present since the beginning of the page's creation. It takes a lot of picture farming, downloading, and replacing for most of the current profiles. And right now, irl, i havent got time to do all that on my own.
It wouldnt
need a CRT to fix a blatant aspect of the page that goes against the current rules, but like others' in the discussion thread have said, it is worth making a thread and discussing how we go about it to maximise
I'm not refusing to stop using uncredited fanart. I'm refusing to do things solely because you tell me to because of the pure distain you have towards anything I do. The Editing Rules say, "while Fan art can serve as a suitable alternative to official art in instances where the mentioned is of inferior quality or fails to capture the essence or details of the characters or subjects effectively". Pokemon has a unique issue, because 99% of all the good official art for a profile belongs in their Gallery instead of being suitable for the verse page's icon. Even in the edit you just gave, I used official art for Pikachu (PokePark)'s icon because an official artwork was perfect for it. In fact, there IS no fanart of The Mech (or regular art), so I just used the same picture as in the profile.
This isnt about disdain or personal grudge. The point is, fanart shouldnt be exploited and used without its creators' permission for this site because its not only part of the rules, but immoral.
A) Most pokemon pages dont have this gallery (or need it, since a lot of it is irrelevant to the powerscaling aspect of the character)
B) What you consider good official art is subjective, and doesnt rule out things to the point you need to take fanart.
C) Its fine to reuse images for icons on a separate page if the image is already being used in a gallery.
D) Icons dont necessarily need to 'capture the essence', they just visually need to show what page they're linking to. I agree they dont have to be barebones boring, but Pokemon isnt lacking that whatsoever
E) Theres still tons upon tons of viable official art for Pokemon.
I never "continued", that was just the one edit where I did that, which sparked the whole argument in the first place and came prior to you telling me what to do. Stop spinning this like I've repeatedly gone and done my own thing multiple times.
And that was initially fine, I just wanted to let you know that it is against the rules to keep using uncredited fanart, i didnt intend to punish or berate you about it because the page still has tons of taken fanart. Onlt that it is preferable if you could not contribute to that current problem (While also reversing a useful QoL edit i made a year ago for the sake of it). Its when it suddenly became an argument, and you refused to stop taking peoples fanart without their permission and credit despite knowing it is against the rules.
