Thread:Tycio/@comment-4844208-20190107011351/@comment-14250-20190201042446

This "Jim to the Sky" is definitely a different person than this "JIMENOPOLIX" on DeviantArt? Temporarily blocking JttS while I ask about this. Even if I were open to allowing recolored fan characters, alterations of others' artwork definitely should not be done without giving credit to the original artist.

Noticed "© Cesar Jimenez's Jimenitoons™." so maybe it would be worth having a Jimenitoons article about this "Lauren"? I won't be uploading much more art (more concerned about learning to archive... slow going) so I'd probably just link to the pics.

Update: unless he provides proof in the next week of that art not predating the deviantart, I will assume the red is just a recolor of the blonde as you say, and delete it all. Do you have any other examples? Until a reasonable period for explanation I've linked to the DA.

I think I should come up with a template for adding a kind of review category to cases like these. I don't want to add 'delete' since then it will be seen like a command, but moreso 'review for recolor' or 'just an edit, not original' for accusations like this so I don't lose track of them.

I won't jump to assuming mostly all the art the user adds is a recolor, but now I'm beginning to wonder about this 'gingerverse' in general. I had tolerated it earlier mostly because I had assumed it to be original artwork.

If people are just taking a couple seconds to change a hair color and make up a new name based on others' work, that's intolerable. I don't want blue-haired Gohans called "Blohan" flooding the place, after all. So recolors are definitely a place I feel comfortable drawing a line at. If people can't be bothered to make original art of a character, they just aren't notable enough to include.

That said... it does make me wonder where this will leave cases like Betty/Veronica or other series where not much variation is done between characters' faces. I think my standard would be "is this an alteration I could easily make?" and if so, delete it.