Hey H-Man. I deleted the category you created for alternate universe characters since there's no real need to make a general fanon category for for characters in one fanon. Also, it was for original characters within a certain genre, and we don't have "background story characters (fanon)" or "one-shot characters (fanon)."
The category can always be undeleted, so if you disagree, we can always have a discussion about recreation.
It isn't meant for single fanon characters. I just so happened to tag all the AU characters from a single fanon. The idea is for everyone else to use the cat to tag their out-of-place characters.
I believe AU characters should because unlike one-shot and background story characters, the AU characters are much more noticeable because they clearly do not belong to the fanon at the outset.
Hm...perhaps. It's a fuzzy line, though. AU characters could mean characters in an alternate avatarverse (which would mean most fanon characters), a completely different universe (like in a crossover) or in something like HotN or A:TLAR. Would the category really be useful if it was so widespread?
The "Alternative universe (fanon)" category is interpreted very broad on this wiki, encompassing every world that is not the Avatar wold as it was introduced in either series (also meaning future evolutions of that world). That category encompasses new worlds where there is an Avatar (like HotN) or the real world (like Alone). All those are AU stories on this wiki, but that does not mean that the characters of those stories are "Alternative universe characters (fanon)" as the category implied. To make both the characters category and the story category coincide, the "AU character" category would have to encompass every character that was not introduced in either series -which is too broad. Or if we would actually limit the scope of that category and solely include crossover characters, then the applicability would be very limited and thus not be necessary. Just my two cents.
I feel you're misinterpreting my thought process ARG. When I mean AU characters, I mean those that exist intentionally in one fanon, but say that they somehow arrived in another fanon or universe. Take the characters I had initially categorized as part of the category. Each of them are AU characters because they originally belonged to the Teen Titans universe before being sucked through a portal of some sort and ending up in the Avatar world. Another example of an AU character I believe would be character Tengu, since he appears in fanons outside of his Avatar: Wanted storyline if I remember correctly.
Tengu would likely be a bad example, as the fanons he appeared in were all written from a Wanted-verse pov, even though not being part of the original Wanted-story.
So this would be characters that happen to travel from one universe to another within a fanon. That sounds like it would include every character in Vortex. Or would this be solely for characters from completely different universes like Teen Titans who came to the Avatarverse? That's a fairly limited category that I'm not sure too many would search for. There's the ones you added, one of the characters from The Weatherbenders and a couple from Avatar: Choices, though I'm not sure they have character pages.
Yes, I understand that, but it is just that which would make it too broad imo as there are often subtle nods from one author to a character of another universe, which would then also fall under this category. But that's just my take on it.
To prevent that, such a character would probably have to physically appear in the extraneous fanons to be considered AU; it wouldn't be warranted if they were simply mentioned.
The nods often are appearances, but that's just an example of why I think that this category would be way too broad to actually serve a navigational purpose.
I would recommend taking that category you created to a forum. Just because something's done on other wikis doesn't mean it should be created here - as I see that to be your reasoning for making it.
If the category is deleted and then the forum decides to have it, undeleting it is a quick process. There's no reason for it to stay up at the present with nothing in it.
Just so you know, it's not mandatory in any way for fanon characters to have the icons up. It's the author's choice whether or not to add them, so there is not really a need to go around adding them. Some might just not like them or something.
When I looked at the review, the top portion was not on the page, but rather all the way on the right of my screen. I reloaded the page, and then accessed it again, and both times the same thing occurred.
Huh, that's odd. It loads fine for me. Any idea why it would be like that? All my previous reviews are of the exact same format, and they turned out fine.
Yes, however it is common practice to designate a size ratio for pics on fanons. Ideally this is between 100-200px for article pics and 250px for infobox pics.