Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27337536-20141231061514/@comment-410526-20141231072423

Ooh, these are cool.

I can't speak for the admins, but personally I think these maps would be pretty awesome to have on the Wiki. While we do have the condition that all images should be from an official source, I think it'd probably best to be flexible in this regard. If we can communicate official info in a way that's clearer than from official media, I don't really see why we shouldn't.

That said, if we were to use them, the maps would probably also need to be clearly marked as being fan-made reconstructions and not official media, perhaps by caption or in the image description.

As precedent, we actually already do use some fan-made media on the Wiki, specifically character emblems, which are all either extracted from the episode credits backgrounds or else re-created from scratch (with reference to the official media). So this wouldn't really be a big departure from the norm. In fact, if it's not too big an ask, it would be very appreciated if someone made versions of those emblems in scalable vector format...

As for the accuracy of the info, I can't really claim to be an authority, but just based on a quick re-watch of the World of Remnant episode, I think the locations and info on the maps is pretty accurate and matches up with official sources.

I do spot some minor things that might need to be changed if these are to be used on the Wiki Mainspace, though:
 * With reference to maps 4 and 5 - I'm reasonably sure that specific regional borders haven't actually been specified from a canon source.
 * With reference to the inset on maps 6 and 7 - The exact positioning of the city of Vale is also currently up in the air as far as I know.

I might be wrong, though, and if there are any official sources available for this info, please do provide them.

As for Template:Quote being gone, I think it was removed because we never really used it. We mostly use Template:Cquote for article title quotes, anyway.

Oh, and welcome to the Wiki. Please stick around!