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ENX, I certainly understand if you don't like the specific layout, characters used, poses, anything ''aesthetic'' about it, but I don't think that the issue of them being unofficial is truly a fault in this context.{{User:KrytenKoro/Sig}} 03:52, 16 April 2012 (UTC) | ENX, I certainly understand if you don't like the specific layout, characters used, poses, anything ''aesthetic'' about it, but I don't think that the issue of them being unofficial is truly a fault in this context.{{User:KrytenKoro/Sig}} 03:52, 16 April 2012 (UTC) | ||
::Let me respond to your words accordingly: | |||
*Using two images really squeezes the text of the welcome notice in a way I find discomforting. I see no reason to keep Terra-Xehanort if I'm forced to live with Xehanort, but Young Xehanort cannot be added as a replacement to Terra-Xehanort, or else one of the images would be pointing ''away'' from the welcome notice, due to the way both characters are facing the left side of the page. I see no reason why we could not just use Young Xehanort, since we could say he's holding his hand out "towards the welcome notice," and it's offical material. Not to mention it'd loosen up the text in the welcome notice a bit. Right now, the images we're using may as well just be fluff used simply because they're fluff on the grounds that they're not official. Not to mention the poses are rather corny in my opinion. | |||
*I never agreed with the Wiki's merging Xehanort and Terra-Xehanort together with Terra-Xehanort being the main article (may be the source of some of my discomfort in terms of this). I saw the logic behind it, but I never supported/agreed with it, the same way I never supported/agreed with changing "Xehanort's Heartless" to "Ansem, Seeker of Darkness" or "Lingering Sentiment" to "Lingering Will." But I digress. The point is, I'm very unhappy with the usage of Terra-Xehanort, since that was only a ''Birth by Sleep''-relevant character. If you want something that applies to the whole series, than we may as well use characters who ''appear'' in the whole series or change the Wiki-theme to be relevant to the entire series rather than a single game. Thus I still suggest using the Young Xehanort render alone. This way, he's relevant to the Wiki-theme ''and'' still serves the same purpose as the Terra-Xehanort and Xehanort renders. | |||
*Young Xehanort is, in essence, the main antagonist of ''KH3D'', thus it would emphasize him as such. The fact he's an antagonist in and of himself contrasts the protagonist-heavy Wiki-theme, which, may I point out, uses ''KH3D'' ''protagonists''! I've always been big on consistency, especially in terms of aesthetics, so using Young Xehanort would really ease my present discomfort, and it serves as a fair compromise in my opinion. | |||
*Young Xehanort, again, accomplishes the same things alone as the two Xehanort renders: he emphasizes "the series' ever-increasing focus on its own content." I in no way deny that the community is skilled and creative, but you're basically saying we're all in favor of using fanart, which is all these renders are. I could see the Keyhole doing something like this, but since this is a more official site where we emphasize the official content and enforce its usage so heavily, this creates a discomforting contradiction. A user page is where the community's skill and creativity should be featured, and no where else. Not to mention using the main page to emphasize the community's more creative side and "skill" strikes me as a bit snobbish and conceited. | |||
*True, this is not one of the articles, but the main page is the "first impression" our readers/visitors get of our site. We want to "advertise" that we're serious about the ''Kingdom Hearts'' series and promise reliable, ''official'' content right from the very get-go. The usage of these images contradicts everything we stand for in my opinion, and quite honestly, I wouldn't want to delve deeper into a site that is so unprofessional with its images and how they're handled. You may as well cover the entire main page in fanart and unofficial content. I'm not buying your "various featured sections" argument, either, simply on the grounds that we use these sections to "advertise" ''official'' content, for the most part. | |||
::I truly do not mean to be as antagonistic or difficult as I seem to be coming across with all of this. I truly hope we can reach some sort of middle-ground. - <span>[[File:Terra Master Symbol.png|17px]] [[User:EternalNothingnessXIII|<font color="peru">'''Eternal'''</font>]] [[User talk:EternalNothingnessXIII|<font color="black">'''Nothingness'''</font>]] [[Special:Contributions/EternalNothingnessXIII|<font color="saddlebrown">'''XIII'''</font>]] [[File:Terra Master Symbol.png|17px]]</span> 14:14, 16 April 2012 (UTC) | |||