Star Wars Fanon:Crossover policy

Star Wars Fanon prides itself on striving to achieve and maintain a standard of quality and excellence in all of its articles. In order to achieve this standard, the members of Star Wars Fanon feel that significant steps need to be taken in limiting the amount of crossover articles which, in theory, would end up creating better crossover articles.

A crossover is an article that contains two or more otherwise separate fictional characters, stories, settings, universes or media meet and interact with one another. Most crossovers take the form of stories in which these separated characters and others are brought together and unite with or fight each other of the course of the story. Another form of crossover is when the author of an article takes story elements, pictures and/or information from a character and uses it to create a new character.

Crossovers on Star Wars Fanon generally deal with characters being taken from one universe and changed around some before being placed into the Star Wars universe. The users of Star Wars Fanon believe that too many of the crossovers are simply carbon copies of characters from other universes put into Star Wars, making the creation of them no better than creating an article about a canon character without using any fanon material.

Therefore, a new policy has been put in place regarding the creation of crossover articles. First, it is important to mention that using pictures from other genres and universes is highly acceptable, and even encouraged. Homages to other characters by using a name or parts of the personality are also acceptable. However, writing the exact same storyline, albeit molded to fit Star Wars, will no longer be acceptable with the permission of a Star Wars Fanon Administrator.

The procedure for being able to create a crossover article is simple. First, an author must come up with a short proposal to be presented to an Administrator. This proposal does not need to be any longer than a few sentences explaining the basic idea of the character and how it is a crossover. Once this proposal is complete, it should be placed on an Administrator’s talk page where it will either be approved or rejected. If rejected, the Administrator will recommend ideas for approval. If it is approved, the author will create the article.

PLEASE NOTE: If at anytime an Administrator feels that the article is a carbon copy (ie, more than simple homages and pictures) then he will have every right to give the author a five day warning to fix it. If the article is not fixed in that five day period it can and will be deleted by the Administrator. If for some reason the user is unable to edit that in the five day period, it is recommend that he or she let the Administrator know this so more time can be given to complete the repairs.