User talk:JoeFrankenstein

Welcome
Hi, welcome to ! Thanks for your edit to the Talk:Santa Claus page.

Please leave a message on my talk page if I can help with anything! Crimsoncrusader (talk) 05:14, November 4, 2014 (UTC)

Open Source Characters
Hi, Joe! The characters that require creator credit can't be in the Open Source Characters category because, since they require creator credit, they aren't really "open sourced" as there are requirements to use them. That's why the "Characters that require creator credit" subcategory was created.Cebr1979 (talk) 07:19, November 21, 2014 (UTC)

Yeah, I realized today after I found the Creative Commons category and planned on changing them to that section. Although, don't most of the characters in the Open Source category require author credit? JoeFrankenstein (talk) 01:57, November 22, 2014 (UTC)

Nope. None of the characters in the Open Source category require author credit.Cebr1979 (talk) 07:36, November 22, 2014 (UTC)

Weird. I probably got my tabs confused. Do all the characters that require creator credit also belong in Creative Commons automatically or is that strictly for ones that were originally posted with a license from the creative commons website? JoeFrankenstein (talk) 06:32, November 22, 2014 (UTC)

Nah, the Creative Commons category is for ones that have a lot of restrictions/requirements (like Blacklist: a cool character that you can't use in anything you might make money off... What the???). Those Creative Commons characters need to be checked individually before using them 'cause everyone could be different (like Hatsune Miku where you're not supposed to do anything with her naked). Then there are characters like Pink Pineapple & Coconut that aren't really open sourced or released under creative commons, there just sorta "there" without falling under any category because, in order to use them, you have to ask first. Or Royal Blue which doesn't fall under creative commons but, can't be open sourced either because it requires creator credit. Unlike the others that require creator credit, though, it also requires a state and zip code! The more difficult people make their characters to use, the less likely they are to be used. A few of mine suck (to be perfectly honest) and I wish I'd put more thought into making some of them (like the Jimnast - still love the name and could have made him into something cool but, I honestly have no idea why I threw in that bit about shopping???) but, they're simple and anyone can do whatever they want with them without any restrictions or requirements at all so they get used (most of them anyways, some still haven't as far as I know). The best, in my opinion, are Marz Workman's (like my favourite open source character of all time: Sneakers, and others like Black Arachnid, and Yellow Wolf).Cebr1979 (talk) 08:04, November 22, 2014 (UTC)

I see now that I had the Homem-Grilo characters in the Open Source category even though they require creator credit. Good catch! I've corrected my mistake!Cebr1979 (talk) 08:22, November 22, 2014 (UTC)