Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-995426-20160808122254

I have some ideas of how to do this, to help keep the divisions separate.

First of all, certain unlicensed works could stay, but would be moved to an Unlicensed/ namespace.
 * Casey Jones (fan film) would become Unlicensed/Casey Jones (fan film).
 * Mutant Ninja Turtles Gaiden would become Unlicensed/Mutant Ninja Turtles Gaiden.
 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Secrets of the Ooze would become Unlicensed/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Secrets of the Ooze.
 * And so forth.

A notability guideline would be required for the inclusion of unlicensed material. I propose allowing such unlicensed material if it meets any of the following conditions:
 * Its production involves staff who are notably involved with licensed works. This includes writers, comics artists, voice actors, etc.
 * Casey Jones (fan film) would qualify because it involves people who worked with the licensed films, including Michelangelo (Movies) voice actor Robbie Rist.
 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles issue 24 (Image) and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles issue 25 (Image) would qualify because Arseniy Dubakov, Kevin Eastman, Jim Lawson and others were all involved in their production. It would be tempting to consider these as worthy as licensed works, but alas, they were indeed always technically unlicensed works.
 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Secrets of the Ooze would qualify because it is created by Sophie Campbell, one of the official artists and character designers for IDW TMNT.
 * A fan work that develops and maintains a significant audience, especially for years. Points if the fan work in turn inspires fan art and fan fiction by third parties.
 * Mutant Ninja Turtles Gaiden would qualify because it's just too well-known and well-read by TMNT comics fans, and has been publishing for over a decade strong now.

As for fan fiction generated by Turtlepedia users themselves, those would be moved to userspace. For example, if your username is User:XYZ, then your fan fiction would be in article User:XYZ/Whatever Title. Associated articles for that fan fiction would also be in articles under that user space. But in general, I would recommend posting your work to a site like deviantART instead. If it develops a real, significant fanbase, maybe it can go under Unlicensed/ someday.

As for categories and disambiguation pages, unlicensed and fan works would have to be separated here as well. No longer could MNT Gaiden disambiguation links be mixed into "Comic Characters" and such. However, a separate "Unlicensed Characters" section would do. And user fanfiction characters would be removed from the main disambiguation pages entirely, all their content kept strictly in the creator's userspace.

This proposal would not necessarily eliminate all the criticism and ridicule regarding Turtlepedia. (Personally, I think ridicule between disagreeing TMNT fans over their likes and opinions is as inescapable as oxygen.) But maybe my proposal can help ease some of these issues and provide more of a sense of tidiness on this wiki.

Any thoughts? Comments? I'd really appreciate feedback on this. And User:The S really deserves a break from me bugging him with my ideas. This is a community, so let the users discuss it. :) 