Hello everyone.
Unfortunately, there have been many events as of late that can no longer go unaddressed. I would advise all of you to read the following carefully, and any questions you have afterwards should be addressed to me, or any of the other Admins.
The Voting Forum
The Voting Forum exists so that you, the users, have an opportunity to be an active part of the wiki, changing and updating page PNG's that you have made, adding them to character pages.
Unfortunately, there has been an unusual rise in the number of these threads being made. Just because you have made a PNG image of a character does not mean you are free to submit it to the voting forum. You MUST remember we have standards and guidelines of what images can even be suitable for this sort of submission, and a lot of the time we are finding people are not reading them.
Image voting, while you can ask for the image to replaced, should not just be created because you made a render / drawing of a character and feel entitled to it being used on the page. 9/10 times there is no reason to change the infobox image yet people still insist on making votes that are landslide opposes for this exact reason.
If this behaviour continues, we will stop users being able to create voting threads. One every two weeks is still more than enough. (Not one per character, one per ALL characters. Please use your common sense and best judgement).
Voting Policy
The Voting Policy, as mentioned previously, sets out many guidelines which you should be reading prior to even considering making a voting thread on the forum. Many times we have seen votes being made unnecessarily, as well as the images being used in them being very substandard, such as screenshots people have erased the background from.
Poorly done or otherwise, we require the image to be in HD PNG form, which cannot be achieved by merely erasing the background of an image. There is no special award for your PNG being used on the page. It is done as a matter of voluntary effort, so therefore creating an image for an infobox for the sake of it is frowned upon and may warrant in action being taken.
BEHAVIOUR
This, for the staff, is one of the most important issues that has arisen, hence the emphasis on the title.
THE WIKI PNGS ARE MADE BY VOLUNTEERS WHO (usually) PUT THEIR UTMOST INTO MAKING THEM AS GOOD AS THEY POSSIBLY CAN.
Slandering them is NOT tolerated. It has been seen in the comments of some voting threads, users making derogatory and snide comments towards the PNGs in the vote. I will not be naming users, but there are several we now have an eye on for such behaviour. It is uncivilised and rude, as well as uncalled for. It is way, way below the behaviour we expect from you as users, and paints our community in a very poor light. If this is seen any more in ANY corner of the wiki, be it the voting thread or the other forums, we will be blocking users to prevent them from contributing and commenting, since you do not have the trust from the staff to be a contributing member of the community. If it continues, we will, again, consider removing the ability to create voting threads altogether.
I apologise that this announcement is not very happy or joyful, but it is vital to the mechanisms of the wiki that you all read this information carefully, and be mindful of your behaviour and your attitudes regarding the voting forum from now on.