Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-29987468-20161023202211/@comment-9154802-20161023233147

CrystaltheCool wrote:

Alissa the Wise Wolf wrote: Fanon versions of characters can often lead to confusion if a wiki is trying to go for a contained universe where every character exists together, instead of separate universe for each individual character. Tbh, we should at most have the Canon pages. My wiki, in order to prevent confusion, has a Fan-Fiction category for things that don't exist within the wiki's contained universe. We have like 20 different versions of Goku, a few are well thought out, but most are just carbon copies with something like (Universe #) attached to the page title.

I may not be a long time member, but in my personal opinion, I think Admins should discuss if fanon versions of Canon Characters should even be made, and that users instead focus on creating their own unique creations that interact with each other within the same universe. This is a fanon wiki after all, so 99% of the focus should be put on the fanon, not really much on the canon.

In fact a safe way to handle fanon is to place the fanon universe several years after the canon takes place, that why users won't feel as creatively handicapped and can focus more on character interactions with other user characters, even forming up their own plots and events as to create a deeper lore and story with the wiki. You'd be surprised at how effective this is, though this generally resorts to everyone Page RPing/Forum RPing in order to move events along, and if an RP requires someone you can't RP till they're available, causing things to drag, which is where RP scheduling comes in handy, scheduling RP around the schedules of users and such.

I'm actually curious to see what could come as a result as of not focusing on staying true to canon, but instead focusing on your own characters and the interactions they have with everyone else's characters. admittedly, most of the fanons aren't even that original. most of them alter the personalities of characters, their crushes, and sometimes the lore. the lore changes are really the only interesting changes imo. :/

That's honestly very sad. I'm not gonna sugar coat it.