Forum:Removing DeviantArt Account

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DoorToNothing — I dreamed last night... I got on the boat to Heaven! And by some chance, I had brought my dice along! — 04:58, 9 October 2011 (UTC) That's it. I have a foot and it is being thrust in the motion reflecting toward gravity at typical, constant perspective. So to speak, it is being lowered. I am putting my foot down. In the June Roundtable, it was decided that to remove an offsite account of the Kingdom Hearts Wiki that was created without any discussion, approval, or consensus from the community. Staff members for this were selected without any process, and essentially happened behind the back of the entire community. The account to DeviantArt was created in May suddenly and inexplicably by Troisnyxetienne. I'm not going to go into all the reasons why we don't need or want a DeviantArt since (1) you probably don't want to read another Godtext and (2) that discussi n is already here. In that discussion, I stated why I think we should not host ourselves on DeviantART, justified effective disagreements against opposing arguments, and received agreement and support from many other community members. However, SIX. MONTHS. LATER. Nothing has been done about this, and we still have the DeviantArt account that the community never even ordered. I am fairly certain that Troisnyxetienne was contacted about this. If not, this forum is going to come off as outlandishly rude. Boop. Otherwise, however, it is time to put our agreement in stone. This forum is mostly just to affirm and recognize the community's agreement on removing the account from DeviantArt and to let everyone know of this.

I personally don't care if we have one or not. The simple question is: Do you guys want one or not? Does it serve a purpose? If it doesn't have this, why should we have one, right? Is it helpful and used often? Even if it has a purpose, if we don't use it, what good is it? I think something like this would be suited for our Namine Draw-off competitions and all that. It would keep everyone's artwork in one spot. Voting could take place here, images be hosted over there. The winning image could be linked from DA to here. Do we need it? That's up to you guys. I'm up for it if people are going to use it. Xion4ever Who am I? — 16:44, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

For the last time, YES, YES, A THOUSAND TIMES YES, WE ARE KEEPING IT. If I'm going to have to put our programme on hold mainly because we haven't got info on KH3D, fine by me. But in no absolute way will I ever have this group removed, and being the founder of the group, this is final. If you are going to put your foot down on saying no, I will put my foot down on saying yes. The main reason why I even went on with the DA group was because I did not want the art competitions we had in the past to take away from the editing, Mirage Arena and other things we have on the wiki. And bluntly speaking, a fanart collection had been REMOVED from the wiki before (yes, even though the images were hosted on Photobucket). There are quite a number of artists whose attention we can direct to DA, and if we're going to have another art competition like the first one we had, we can always do it there. I didn't in any way say that the activity would be instantaneous, I was indeed considering the possibilities. That being said, being the wiki's DA group, we set standards. What is acceptable as far as the universe of KH in its entirety is generally concerned, we take. And what is not, we leave out. Erry and I were all happy about the idea of making a KH3D promotional poster competition, but (I'm not sure if it's Kryten or Neumannz) advised us on waiting for further information before beginning, and so we wait. The crux of the matter: I'm not going to deny our artistic members a chance to express themselves. If they're not going to do it here and if they still love the universe as it is - untampered, untouched, just the way it was in KH1 without the excessive fandom, there's always the DA group. I am keeping the DA group, and my decision is final. And if a KHW-umbrella site-full of community approval messages isn't enough for you, well then, I'll just have to be blunt: you might as well de-affiliate those sites that we have, if they don't even matter so much. But I've learned that deep down, there's a light that never goes out! • TroisNyxÉtienne — 21:27, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

LapisScarab - You accept darkness, yet choose to live in the light. So why is it that you loathe us who teeter on the edge of nothing? We who were turned away by both light and dark - never given a choice? TALK - That may be... however, what other choice might we have had? This isn't meant to insult you or any of the artists we have on the site, TNE. It's just that there's no reason for the DA account to be officially touted by the KHWiki. It's essentially just another image hosting site for fanart; that isn't bad, but it's like showing off our official Photobucket page. It's just kind of superfluous. Just read either of the two links DTN posted, it'd be easier than me listing all of the arguments made against keeping the account. You cannot just say "No, I'm keeping it". DTN is speaking for a decision the community made a while back that hasn't been acted on yet. It's been agreed that we really don't need a personal DA account at least twice now. Please don't think I'm trying to be rude or mean, you're awesome and I know you had good intentions, but I haven't seen any substantial support for keeping the account (or creating it to begin with) beyond your own. It's the opinion of the Wiki community that we don't need the DA account.