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| - There's been a lot of control art thrown up recently -- try [Megatron (BW)] for example -- but I'm not sure how to treat it yet. I certainly don't think it belongs up at the top of the article with the bios, and it would probably work better down near the toy section, but that area's going to be swamped with toy pics already. (I'm also concerned with the ethics of putting them all up on the wiki. Placing the entire contents of the BW Reborn DVD on the wiki can't possibly fall under Fair Use.) --ItsWalky 22:35, 2 August 2006 (UTC) I figured it was fair game since there certainly seem to be a fair amount of comic scans, Genesis scans, DVD screenshots, as well as having Dan Khanna and Guido Guidi art posted. There's far more on the Golden Disc, but the only thing that really seemed needed was the toy art. And true, I had no clue where it would fit, so it can be moved to wherever.--MCRG It's a matter of proportion. There's a difference between scanning a panel from a comic book for an entry and having the entire comic book issue scanned, page-by-page. This is a simple distinction. --ItsWalky 23:49, 2 August 2006 (UTC) I'm not putting up the entire disc.--MCRG I think putting up every single piece of control art from the disc would be very different, fair-use wise, than is having up a few scattered comic panels and character portraits. Even if there is more to the disc than just the control art. So I definitely do not think they should all be uploaded to this Wiki. I'm also not sure what the point of uploading them here is... They are neat, of course, but we aren't really envisioning this Wiki as a repository of every single piece of Transformers information ever. It's a TF encyclopedia, basically. I think having an article called control art would be a great idea, and could include a few examples. And we can include control art for some of the characters' toys in the character articles if there's something especially interesting about it, like the spark figure on TM2 Megatron. But including all of them is, I think, neither fair use nor useful. --Steve-o 01:18, 3 August 2006 (UTC) Is this on an archive somewhere? Create a Control Art article, upload a few examples, and put a link to the off-site online archive. If it's NOT online soemwhere, maybe you have to ask yourself- in an era when everything tf-related is online, why isn't this? Possibly peopel decided it was a tad gauche to upload a big chunk of the exclusive content of a comercial product while it was still being widely sold. And even if ti wasn't- this wiki is not an archive for that kind of thing. We dont' have everyon'es box art up, or their tech-specs, or anythign else relatign to them. In fact, we tend to fall back on box art just when there's no other images of characters. On tech-specs for content when the character has no media appearances to guide us. Control art is interesting- for what it is. It's appropriate to show off for, like, Megatron and Dinobot, where it shows off features that didnt' make it into the final toys. The wiki is not an archive. That said, the internet is full of archives. I love the control art. Go put it up at one of the archives. -Derik 02:15, 3 August 2006 (UTC) I basically agree with everything Steve-O said. --M Sipher 02:38, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
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