Board Thread:Policies/@comment-24800939-20160420135146/@comment-16461120-20160430221115

Okay, I've written the following that we can use as an announcement to highlight this decision, I just need to know how long a window we'll be giving before the purge begins? AnnabellRice wrote:

For far too long we have accumulated an increasingly excessive volume of unlicensed fan art, which has been uploaded to this site. This is a problem because the art cannot legally be displayed without explicit permission from the artist and is thus against Wikia's existing terms of use. Therefore, we will be begin to purge the site of this illegal fan art on __________, 2016.

Now this presents a pair of minor problems, which I'll describe, with simple solutions, below:


 * 1) Many of us have previously tagged our personal user galleries as fan art. If that includes you, in order to protect your gallery from deletion, you will need to change the GalleryType to "User", you'll find an example of that done here.
 * 2) Even properly licensed images where permission was given, such as those where the uploader is themselves the artist or commissioned the artwork personally, will be subject to the coming purge if they remain in any of the various fan art categories. If that includes you, in order to protect your images from deletion, you will need to change the License to "Public Domain", the Image Type to "User Image", and lastly provide a Description which explicitly explains the nature of the permission given, you'll find an example of that done here for a commissioned image and here for a self-made image.

Hope this helps, and feel free to ask any questions y'all may have. Thanks. Anyway, I'd suggest either May 15th or June 1st as the deadline.