help:third-party edit
A third-party edit is any edit that has been made by someone other than the original artist or source provider. Since third-party edits are a special kind of upload that have to be treated with higher levels of scrutiny by the queue moderators, it's necessary to elaborate on what will generally be acceptable or not acceptable.
Note that third-party edits will usually have a blank source. If the third-party edit was made by the uploader, it is necessary for the uploader to make a comment explaining the change and also link the original image(s) in the comment.
One additional thing to note about whether a third-party edit will be accepted is if it is of a digital medium or analog medium. Third-party edits of images derived from a digital medium will generally be treated with much higher scrutiny than that of photos or scans.
Types of third-party edits
- Detexted
- Decensored
- Nude filter
- Waifu2x
- Derivative work
- third-party watermark
- Hard translated
- Lossy-lossless
- Lossless-lossy
- Stitched
Uploads
Generally accepted
- Adjustments. Scan or photo modifications that seek to compensate for some visual or technical shortcoming are generally acceptable (post #2684763).
- Stitched images. Image stitches made by a third-party that make a good effort to preserve the quality of the original images used are generally acceptable (post #2804604).
- Derivative works. A derivative work is acceptable if the artist makes a clear enough effort to differ it from the original work (post #2684318).
Conditionally accepted
- Restorations: Restorations of art from a digital medium are conditionally accepted. This includes things like color adjusted, detexted and uncensored images. Uploaded restorations must be of generally good quality (post #413569, post #1860988).
Generally rejected
- Alterations. Any post altered from what the artist intended is generally rejected. This includes nude filters, poor decensoring (post #2333202) and the addition of unoriginal features (futashops, post #2585351, etc).
- hard translated images. Do not upload them, unless the original absolutely cannot be found.
- Composite artwork. Art that is made up of different artwork put together. This includes things like headshops (post #2458064).
- Third-party file conversions. This includes things such as lossy-lossless or lossless-lossy. These should be deleted once the original is available. See their wikis for more information.