User blog:The S/Fan Stuff - Stay or Go?

This is something I've been waffling over for a while... while we have always allowed fan materials here, there have been times such as when fan art has been posted without knowledge/consent/credit of their creators, which has ticked off more than a few people. There also is kind of a rapid influx of fan characters and so forth... actually that comes and goes. At one point I had to make a rule or two about the fan story/characters because a few people were just wantonly adding things that they themselves were supposedly "writing" even though there's no way one person could be possibly doing all of that at once. And the less said about the fan characters whose creators tried to cram them into the canon, the better.

Then there's the unintended side effect of the fan stuff, even if clearly marked, worming its way into the actual Wiki stuff like disambiguation pages and categories... to the point where it might confuse the casual observer.

It's hard to justify an all-and-all out purging, since there's so much of it, and there are quite a few things that I just outright love. I mean I own a copy of Casey Jones on DVD. I waited over a year for it! And some of this material is my own making as well.

And what about the quasi-canon stuff like the Image conclusion? What do we do with this?

And surely, this stuff deserves to be cataloged still. Do we shunt everything off to another Wiki? Start a new one officially run by the admins here at Turtlepedia but still a separate entity unto itself? If we did, it'd run by the same rules as this one in these aspects - i.e. works must have a basis, no overtly adult stuff, etc.

So what do you guys think? If we go through with this, it'd be a mighty undertaking... but if we leave it as-is, we'd risk a few things such as an overrunning of fan materials in the event that someone decides to catalog more of what's out there. Plus a Wiki of its own could afford more freedom in some ways.

Let me know!