Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-679780-20140930230517/@comment-5008588-20141001211232

Mystic Monkey wrote:

SplashTheHedgehog wrote: Ok, this Sonic.EXE background is horrible, I'm sorry.

First of all using Fan fiction and fan art is again out guidlines, so technically we have to remove it.

Second of all. I can hardly seen any of it. I have to zoom out in order to see tails doll and things.

Third of all, although it is halloween, we do have younger viewers (weither they are signed up illegally being 12 and younger) or just looking up the wiki for info, I find that Sonic.EXE is too scary (even though it said it really isn't) for our younger audiences.

I prefer one of the spooky stages from Heroes, Advanture games, etc. as a background such as pumpkin hill. Or maybe "Fun is infinite with SEGA Enterprices ~Majin" from CD or Possessed Amy from Sonic X. You think of it as horrible, in yet you can't really see any of it?

Also, the rules state that you cannot use fanfiction or fan art to pass it off as fact in main wiki articles we have. The rules do not state we cannot use fan work for background, or else the standard blue backgrounds we have been using for years will have to go, since while they're made with canon based materials (Sonic Team logo for MonoBook, Sonic Jump images for Oasis) these backgrounds still count as fan made content.

Also, as stated before, it is only a little bit of blood. I considered it insignificant of unappropriate content because it really isn't as bad as actual violent games or imagery. In fact my versions of Sonic.exe and Tails Doll are rather tame in comparison to others I have saw, such as lots of blood or disturbing messages. All in all I think Shadow's game is perhaps more edgy than the background image I made.

Well when I made the wiki logo for halloween a few years back along with the christmas one I hate to use official artwork. If it's unfair to do logo fanart I don't find it fair for Sonic.EXE to work either.

I called it horrible, cause I can only see sonic bleeding his eyes out with a gray background. It's really boring and the Sonic himself didn't really look drawn well/assembled properly with his arm being the wrong way.

I'm okay with Tails Doll I gues... That is at least official and although not scary I find it amssung when fans do and it's not fan fiction just fan speculation.

I think we could definatly use the background we had last year with Sonic as a witch with those pumpkin choa, and perhaps something with shadow, or ROUGE! She's a bat after all and has many different costumes.